The Grisha are people with the ability to manipulate the elements to use as weapons, e.g. During their crossing, the volcra attack, and, while saving Mal, Alina displays an extraordinary Grisha talent. Periodic expeditions sent across the Fold to transport goods and bring back imports are often plagued by monsters called volcra that inhabit the Unsea. The story begins as they march through the Unsea (also called the Shadow Fold), a perpetually dark, barren strip of land cutting most of Ravka off from the sea.
It is also the basis for the Netflix adaptation, Shadow and Bone, which premiered in April 2021.Īlina Starkov is a teenage girl who grew up with Malyen (Mal) Oretsev at an orphanage in Keramzin in the Kingdom of Ravka. It is the first book in the Shadow and Bone trilogy, followed by Siege and Storm and Ruin and Rising. The novel is narrated by Alina Starkov, a teenage orphan who grows up in the Russia-inspired land of Ravka when, unexpectedly harnessing a power she never knew she had in order to save her childhood best friend, she becomes a target of intrigue and violence. It was published by Macmillan Publishers on June 5, 2012. Shadow and Bone is a young adult fantasy adventure and debut novel written by Israeli-American author Leigh Bardugo. Print ( hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-book
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