Shadow and Bone is the first novel of the fantasy-adventure Grisha trilogy, written by American author Leigh Bardugo. The novel is narrated by Alina Starkov, a teenage orphan who grows up in the Russia-inspired land of Ravka. The book ends with Mal and Alina taking passage across the True Sea, escaping from Ravka and the Darkling.
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Shadow and Bone is the first novel of the fantasy-adventure Grisha trilogy, written by American author Leigh Bardugo. The novel is narrated by Alina Starkov, a teenage orphan who grows up in the Russia-inspired land of Ravka before her entire life changes when she unexpectedly harnesses a power she never knew she had to save her best friend. The book ends with Mal and Alina taking passage across the True Sea, escaping from Ravka and the Darkling. The Grisha are people with the ability to manipulate the elements to use as weapons, e.g. to call fire, to summon wind, to stop hearts. Alina can summon light.
The Darkling is the leader of the Grisha, the leader who created the Unsea. The Unsea is a perpetually dark, barren, strip of land cutting most of RavKA off from the sea. The story was inspired by the Russian fantasy world, after the early 1800s, when the Russian Empire was at its height. Bardugi: “I wanted to take some readers to a different place—and I believe I do—and that’s a little different than ale—and a little more ale-and-swords-and I love that about Russian culture. I think there’s tremendous power in the images we associate with Russian culture and history”
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