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Shadow and Bone: where to start reading
Adapts The Grishaverse by Leigh Bardugo. Say how far you watched, and pick the book up exactly there.
FantasyYA
2 seasons
on screen
5 books
to read
Blends books
from the books
After Season 1, in the books you are
at Shadow and Bone.
The main Alina thread finishes the first novel; the Crows thread has no direct book equivalent..
Show and books diverge here
The first season adapts the novel Shadow and Bone while adding an original storyline for the Crows, characters drawn from the separate Six of Crows duology. If you liked the Crows, note their own books are a prequel to the events they cover on screen.
Start reading at Shadow and Bone (the first novel in the main trilogy)
Spoiler-safe, only what the show already showed you.
Get the book
Season 1 draws on this book. Read the full story:
Shadow and Bone
Leigh Bardugo · Book 1 of 5
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What the show changed here
- InventedThe Six of Crows characters (Kaz, Inej, Jesper) are woven into the timeline, though their own books are set years later.
- InventedThe Crows' storyline is original to the show, written as a prequel; it does not appear in the Shadow and Bone trilogy.
- ChangedAlina is reimagined as half-Shu to make her more of an outsider; the books do not describe her that way.
- ChangedNina and Matthias's story is pulled forward and shown during Alina's training rather than as a later thread.
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Netflix's series blends two of Leigh Bardugo's Grishaverse book sets at once: the Shadow and Bone trilogy (the main Alina storyline) and the Six of Crows duology (the Crows storyline), interweaving characters and plots the books keep separate.
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