Adapted from fantasy author Leigh Bardugo’s trilogy of the same name and her ‘Six of Crows’ duology, ’Shadow and Bone‘ follows the story of Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei Li) in the Grishaverse.
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Shadow and Bone includes all the classic touchpoints of a new juggernaut fantasy series: a coming-of-age narrator, an ominous place full of darkness and monsters, period costumes, and British accents. But the series also added a new ingredient it wants to make sure we’re aware of from the jump: racism!
“I live in East Ravka, but I’ve never been welcome here,” Alina (Jessie Mei Li) narrates barely thirty seconds into the first episode, “because I look like my mother, and she looked like the enemy.”
Adapted from the massively bestselling YA fantasy series by Leigh Bardugo,