Her Name is Alina Starkov: A Shadow and Bone Review
The Deal is the Deal. And Netflix’s show is definitely the real deal.
I’ll preface this review with a simple fact: I’ve never read a single book in the GrishaVerse. I’ve seen Six of Crows and Shadow and Bone at the bookstore enough times to have been familiar with the covers, but I had absolutely no knowledge of what kind of story was within the pages.
And when Netflix dropped the first trailer for Shadow and Bone, I admit that I was intrigued, but I wasn’t exactly sold. I’ve been a little leery of Netflix’s fantasy offerings, as I’ve found they can be very hit (Witcher) or miss (Cursed… ok, I didn’t hate Cursed, but you’ll notice I also didn’t bother to write any reviews of it either). More than anything, my interest was peaked by the casting of Ben Barnes, an actor I hadn’t really seen in anything since Prince Caspian and Voyage of the Dawn Treader (and a handful of Westworld episodes). And once a king or queen of Narnia, always an actor I’m going to want to see again… or however that phrase went.
So if I’m being incredibly honest with you, I was not expecting to love Shadow and Bone nearly as much as I did. But saints, did I love this show.
Spoilers Ahead
