TV #12 of 2023: Shadow and Bone, season 2 I continue to enjoy this YA fantasy adaptation, but I think this second season fumbles its ending enough that downgrading my rating to three-out-of-five stars feels appropriate overall. After rushing through a condensed version of the novels Siege and Storm and Ruin and Rising that close …
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TV Review: Shadow and Bone, season 1
TV #42 of 2021: Shadow and Bone, season 1 It took me a couple episodes to get fully on-board with this YA literary adaptation, but I believe that’s largely down to the incorrect assumptions that I brought to the experience. All of the promotional materials that I had seen for the show seemed to be …
Book Review: Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo
Book #10 of 2018: Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo (Grisha #3) This final novel in Leigh Bardugo’s Grisha trilogy is the first one that I feel really approaches the quality of her later Six of Crows series. (Or to put that more charitably, the five Bardugo books that I’ve now read get steadily better …
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Book Review: Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo
Book #242 of 2017: Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo (Grisha #2) Two books in, I’m still pretty lukewarm on this trilogy. It’s good enough to keep reading, especially for the extra background on author Leigh Bardugo’s superior semi-sequel series Six of Crows, but far too much time is spent on the main character’s love …
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Book Review: Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
Book #192 of 2017: Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo (Grisha #1) This is the first novel in Leigh Bardugo’s Grisha trilogy, a series I’m reading after (and on the strength of) the author’s Six of Crows and its sequel Crooked Kingdom. Those books share a world with this series and take place after it, …
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