If you binge-watched Netflix’s
Shadow and Bone this weekend and you’ve never read the Leigh Bardugo books it was based on, you might be thinking about trying the main trilogy the show adapts.
Here’s some unsolicited advice: Don’t start with the first novel,
Shadow and Bone.
But wait, you might ask yourself, is that not the book that the show is based on? Isn’t it the first book of the series? The one that sets the stage for everything else? The one that introduces the Grisha, Sun Summoner Alina Starkov, and the swath of sentient darkness that tears Ravka in half?