Fantasy adaptations are alluring for those who've read the books and those who haven't for different reasons. For book readers, there's interest in how the show will make the characters and locations from the original text come to life; those who haven't read the book are interested in finding out what all the fuss is aboutShadow and Bone is the latest in Netflix's fantasy adaptations game, and it's a fascinating example of how to update a 9-year-old book in necessary ways to create a TV show that feels like it was written yesterday.Â
In Shadow and Bone, the country of Ravka is cut in half by a monster-infested region of pure darkness called the Fold. The Fold was created long ago by a Grisha — a magic user in their world — but in the hundreds of years since it appeared, the Grisha have become a respected part of Ravka's military. When a young woman named Alina Starkov discovers she not only is a Grisha, but one with a mythical power that could theoretically destroy the Fold, she is ripped from her friends and thrown into the dangerously political and brutally magical world of the Grisha. Also, some cool kids are doing a heist and a couple of hot people are on a boat. Read more...
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