5/31/2023 0 Comments Shadow and bone by leigh bardugoIn the first book, Alina emphasizes her own plain looks constantly, so anyone beautiful becomes someone she cannot relate to. When Leigh Bardugo introduces Genya and Zoya in the first Shadow and Bone books, she places much emphasis on their beauty. In the show, they’re the tropes, not the deconstruction, and any nuance that their arcs would have takes a backseat to the more traditionally exciting characters. In the books, they both represent a deconstruction of what we typically expect from the YA stock character of the Beautiful Cool Girl. To include the ever-popular Six of Crows characters and to speedrun Alina’s quest to defeat the Darkling, two of the books’ most dynamic female characters, Genya Safin (Daisy Head) and Zoya Nazyalensky (Sujaya Dasgupta) became collateral damage, their storylines reduced to almost nothing. And yes, so long as the heart of the story is respected, changes can be good.īut when it comes to the second season of Shadow and Bone, it’s evident which characters the writers understand and which ones have been reconstructed to use as puzzle pieces in the larger framework. That’s been the creed that many fans of Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse books have carried into the Netflix adaptation Shadow and Bone, one that the showrunners also proudly proclaim. So long as an adaptation keeps the spirit of the characters and story, changes and timeline shifts are not the end of the world.
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