Between the Darkling being an old magical superpower, Nikolai being a rich genius and David being just an average grisha genius they could rule the whole continent without a sun summoner. But of course, why communicate like the mature men you're supposed to be when you can put it all on the shoulders of an untrained teenage girl.
You can really tell when you read these books that these were written by a novice author, they’re so full of tropes like love triangles, op villain, list goes on and on. It’s so crazy to me that the same person that wrote these wrote the six of crows duology, which by comparison are handled so expertly between the top notch character development and all the little details that make the heist believable. As an aspiring writer It’s almost reassuring, to know that an authors first book series isn’t always gonna be their best; that sometimes experience really does make a big difference.
@@tuqaridha4821 I mean, based on the quality of S & B, she’s far from an incapable writer, I mean she went to Harvard and all that so I think it was in her the whole time, but yhe potential was untapped at first.
This basically confirms everything I suspected about the trilogy and why I never read it. But hey, the Six of Crows Duology is bomb and the Netflix show is good. But the crows are the best part of that as well so....
It's so weird seeing how so many people have polarizing views on which is better. Some claim SoC plotting sucked while others say SaB sucked. I think SaB sucked hard.....Mal is so bland
Tbh I read shadow and bone and I really loved it, I would definitely suggest reading it. Personally I didn’t find it ‘crusty’ but I would recommend reading it because it was actually really good
I didnt like SaB very much bc its pretty much just a basic YA fasntasy, a GOOD basic YA fantasy, yes, but im just kinda tired of that genre. Wheras SoC actually brought smthn relatively fresh to the table. Also S1 of the show was good, it almost improved the SaB storyline and it added story to the SoC storyline that didnt bother me.... But S2.... No. Just No. They rushed everything that happenned in the books while adding unneccessary stuff to the story.
yyyeapp, I will never forget in the 2nd book how Alina told Nikolai to give her the 2nd army and then spend the rest of the book stressed about the responsability of the army like ???? gurl you were the one who asked!!!
I think the trilogy is truly a product of its time and the result of Leigh being a newer writer. I'm excited to see where the show goes bc it's possible that Leigh herself changes things.
The show seems to doesn't want to make the necessary changes. In fact it knows its flaws and tries to gloss them over and pretend they have a good story.
bestie i thought i was the only one that didn't care for alina being with any of the 3 guys the points u outlined were so right i also don't get why people want alina to be with the darkling, idc if he's seggsy he manipulated her, took away her bodily autonomy, and murdered hundreds of people??
Alina was dumb n I never cared about her at all. Believe me I was so frustrated with her that I wanted Darkling to kill her and Mal at some point 🤣🤣. Mal was still better and useful than Alina though . I would say Darkling and Mal deserved better not Alina. I liked Darkling but never wanted to end her with Alina.
my main problem with s&b was the introduction of "women gets literally any power and immediately starts goin a bit mad/evil" trope. like, it made no sense for alina to suddenly enjoy hurting people/wanting to hurt ppl using the cut. like i read seige and storm 2 days ago and i still don't understand why those moments were there, they don't fit her personality established in s&b
I might be a little biased but I don't think it was her power that made her like that. It was her greed. Her need to find all of the amplifiers. Hence the whole 'What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men'. Her initial goals and motivations were pure but being manipulated by the darkling, constantly confused with mal and even sometimes used by nikolai, she ended up believing that she was exactly what she was viewed as; a very powerful weapon. So, in my point of view, it wasn't really the power that messed her up. By the end of the series, she still considers it a valuable part of herself that she would never have changed. But what she went through was serious trauma, dude.
Honestly? I read SoC first too (got around to the og trilogy back in February in preparation for the show) so I spent the entire trilogy being CONVINCED that Alina was going to die at the end. She started doing her “Pokémon, gotta catch them all” thing with the amplifiers and I thought “that’s it, she’s gonna go supernova, go out in a blaze of glory” which I actually thought was pretty baller of her, SO IMAGINE MY SURPRISE WHEN SHE LIVED I’d literally never been disappointed that a character survived until then, I genuinely think I projected the Alina I wanted onto the story and it genuinely skewed my view of who she was 😭😂
Something similar: my friend described six of crows as ‘sugar scam’ so I read Shadow and Bone waiting and waiting for this sugar scam. I was so disappointed by the lack of sugar scam 💀
shadow and bone trilogy is a proof of how much leigh bardugo improved through the years, so i don't really mind that it seemed "bland" compared to her other works
@@fidato_ I feel like she keeps revisiting the grishaverse because it is a pretty good world but it hurts her writing because the characters themselves are bad. Can’t give them depth and a good plot if they’re based on tropes and had writing
@@itsdivyag i haven’t read king of scars, but I’ve heard that it was like Leigh was trying to recreate how good Six of crows was, but she was returning to characters that wwren’t as fleshed out, or as ‘good’. Idk though
I couldn't even finish the trilogy. I tapped out after the second one. It was so boring and nonsensical. Also, Mal was unbelievably bland as a love interest. I mean, he had nothing to add to the story. I just couldn't understand why Alina was so crazy about him. He was literally that high school bestie-kind-crush you're supposed to grow out once you leave school and actually get to see that there's a big ass world out there to explore.
i just adore your editing lol i haven't read the trilogy, but i've seen the show and i enjoyed it! dont really have strong opinions on it but it made me want to read six of crows also im so excited for your video with nadia
Ya but one need to understand why people are doing this. The big problem is with the books itself. This is the first time I am myself seeing a book where a villian is having more intense chemistry with main protagonist despite of being toxic while her lover is having zero🤣🤣 I hated Mal and Alina in the books. They were🤮🤮🤮 specially Alina. She was so silly and annoying. I never gave a damn about her n who the fuck she chooses. Darkling was the one who was having amazing lines and carried this Grisha trilogy for me otherwise it was boring. But still I was disappointed by the books bcz I wanted him to be more brutal and cunning which he wasn't. Soc was only good work of Leigh. Books needs alot of changes if they want to make Alina n Mal praise worthy. Darkling as a hot villian was amazing not best as compared to my other favorite villians but still he was good as he was having potential to be one of the most remarkable villian but Leigh destroyed it. How the hell people can compare Kaz and Darkling 😂 and why ? Comparing Kaz and Darkling is stupidity. One is a villian and other one is meant to be a hero. Ofcourse there would be difference between their actions. Main protagonists of the books were boring and but I liked Zoya.
Just only read S&B (no plans on reading the other two cause of how cringe it was, but will check out Six of Crows), and my gosh, your review gave my brain cells back! xD Also the show I found to be so much better lmao.
don’t check out six of crows (or at least just borrow it from a library). i personally couldn’t stand leigh bardugo’s style of writing so if you don’t like her other books i doubt you’ll like it.
@@remib1199 True, I found her style very simplistic and off in a lot of ways. Though having heard how Bardugo improved with her later books, I'm gonna give it a second chance. Also have used my local library to get S&B anyway so I'm good. 😆👍
@@remib1199 as someone who hates sab with passion I loved SoC. Maybe it's only you who hates SoC. Let others have the chance to check it out and decide for themselves.
I only read the S&B trilogy as research for the show and I’m glad I read it so I could notice details that are clearly setting up for future seasons but I didn’t particularly enjoy the trilogy at all. I’m amazed the show turned out as well as it did. Making Alina Asian gave her material depth and nuance she never had for me as a reader. 😆🤷🏻♀️
I listened to the audiobooks of the trilogy and although I didn’t love it, I enjoyed it and my main motive to listen to them was to accustom myself to the grishaverse and the tv show (which I loved so much!)
I loved the trilogy. SoC duology was definitely on another level though. I liked the ending for Alina. After everything she went through she deserves some peace in her life although I am upset she can't summon anymore.
lets not forget that the shadow and bone trilogy was leigh's first ever novels! She has very clearly matured much more as a writer since then, and it makes sense that six of crows was a "better" written book than shadow and bone. Even if the shadow and bone trilogy wasn't the best to some people, leigh still managed to create a very unique universe and characters for her first ever book. not even some experienced authors can ever create a world like that. i wish you guys would cut leigh some slack honestly it's kind of sad that you put her first ever books on this super high pedestal but get upset when they aren't written like Shakespeare.
I just realized this (like a couple of days ago) Alina Starkov’s name has the word Star in it. And as you know Stars are the brightest things against the darkness of space. Woah 😦
OMG YOU'RE FRIENDS WITH NADIA OMG!!!! I LOVE BOTH OF GUYS' CONTENT SO MUCH I ONLY RECENTLY DISCOVERED YOUR CHANBRO AND I'M BINGING!!! The shadow and bone series may not be perfect but it's one of my faves so I can't wait to see your reactions or check them out of it's already posted!!! 😭😭😭💜💜💜💚💚💚💛💛💛💙💙💙💕💕💕
The ending is a true joke like « Hey you know how you’ve heard Alina complain about being too plain yet to powerful and stress about becoming like the Darkling for 1000+ pages ? Yeah ? Well you suffered through her emo ass bullcrap for nothaaaang because she just doesn’t have powers no mo’ and she can « keep house for your little tracker » (The Darkling makes fun of her for ending with a bullshit boring future that’ll make her unhappy in the FIRST BOOK and then at the end she does and I’m expecting to cheer ? Nope)
Mal was with other women, and meanwhile was all possessive and judgmental of Alina. Shadow and Bone does that love triangle trope that I hate where one guy is not it, but you kind of have to choose him because the other guy is a literal child murderer. I'd rather be single.
I read the first book of Shadow and Bone and I was like nah not gonna finish the series. But the series is so much better than the books! And six of crows is thousand miles so much better than S&B trilogy.
The best decision I've *ever* made in my entire life was reading soc before sab because if it was the other way around I don't think I'd ever come back to the Grishaverse 🙂
Thank goodness they decided to add crows to the netflix series. Without them it wouldn't make any sense as Alina's story was so short and boring and illogical... I mean I don't like characters from S&B at all and I'm not going to read the series. Like there was not enough content to even create a movie and they decided to make a tv series? xd
I felt like the first two books were kinda underwhelming and then somehow enjoyed the last book much more! To me, the ending felt just right. Also, loved the lesbians
To be real though, the climax of the second book to the first half of the 3rd book was the peak of the plot.. From Alina's was against the darkling in the castle, to being stuck underground, to that moment where they get attacked in the mountain fortress. That was IT. Then the other half disappointed me. Very anticlimactic.
I just finished S&B and am here because I don't think I'm going to go on. I think it was an amazing book hiding inside an okay book and the okayness won. It's was fine 7/10
Shadow and Bone kind of has all the tropes you’d expect from YA novels such as these. Main character unlocks secret rare power, main villain is after them because of said power, and love interest is vowing to protect them at all costs. Very generic. Hopefully when I get around to Six of Crows it’ll be much more enthralling.
First episode in, was confused why they designed the skiff as it is, like why not design a protected or covered skiff to cross the fold 🙃 Does anyone know if it was explained in the book?
Even that can't stop volcras from attacking. You will see that In the next few episodes. Plus they needed an open space so squallers can drive it. They were manipulating wind to drive the ship forward. They could have made a separate covered area for the passengers but I mean they still would have died so.. 🤷♂️
I'm reading the series rn and my biggest issue was how darklina seems to be a popular ship amongst fans but like in the 2 books I've read theres literally no basis of a relationship. Its all classic evil villain behavior from the darkling and alina literally hates him for a whole lot of the books. Its weird how some fans completely ignore the multiple love declarations for mal. Im not invested in either ship but I just never understood where darklina came from
the way you talk about the 1,200 pages reminds me of john mulaney spending $120,000 for college 😭 same vibe man. if you haven't heard his rant about it you should definitely check it out
This is easily the most entertaining vide I have watched in a Loong time and that says a lot for a recluse in lockdown who has nothing better to do than read and binge UA-cam 👀 I just finished Ruin and Rising an hour ago and this was exactly what I needed thank yew ma'am. I'm dead 😭🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 PS you have yourself a new subscriberrrr😉
ive read this in like 2016 and tbh i dont remember almost anything from it lol, i know i liked genya, didnt like alina, hated the darkling and basically got into it for the russian/slavic aesthetics (cause me a slav) which i kinda liked. it was not bad, but as many others in the comments said, you can very well see bardugo was a new author. i think its pretty impressive to see how much she improved in soc as hat duology is amazing, 5/5. havent seen the tv show yet (im 5 months behind but also i dont really watch tv shows) but ive heard its good, but esp cause of the dregs, which,,, im not surprised about lmao. but overall i found shadow and bone ok back then, even quite enjoyed it, but now? for half of the stuff you talked about i had only a very vague memory of and if you didnt say it i wouldnt remember haha. lmao i looked into my goodreads and i described the 1st book as a "big cliché". in 2015. and gave it 4 stars. i gave all the books 4 stars with no commentary for 2nd and for 3rd i said i like it. but ok i was 16/17 ill have to cut myself some slack :")
I clicked thinking I've read it BUT I DONT KNOW WHETHER I READ IT OR NOT.. i remember her name but the story.. idk Maybe there's a spin off or some other book with an Alina I've read
I really loved it when i was 15 y/o HAHAHAAH then i re-read it last year, during the first few weeks of quarantine,,,,, at 21 y/o and i was dying like i cant even resell it, nobody wants it HAHAHAHAHAH
Alina. Queen of maps but still can't find any direction in her life
Alina Snarkov
Alina Stuckov
😂😂😂😂
Between the Darkling being an old magical superpower, Nikolai being a rich genius and David being just an average grisha genius they could rule the whole continent without a sun summoner. But of course, why communicate like the mature men you're supposed to be when you can put it all on the shoulders of an untrained teenage girl.
David fans rise up 🙌🏽
Honestly... that plot would have been 15 millions better 😳😳
@@braingirl9112 Also isn't he a teenager too? Like only a little older than Mal and Alina? It's been ages since I read the books though
Same I was same
I guess that’s why they didn’t use that title in the series except for once lmao
You can really tell when you read these books that these were written by a novice author, they’re so full of tropes like love triangles, op villain, list goes on and on. It’s so crazy to me that the same person that wrote these wrote the six of crows duology, which by comparison are handled so expertly between the top notch character development and all the little details that make the heist believable. As an aspiring writer It’s almost reassuring, to know that an authors first book series isn’t always gonna be their best; that sometimes experience really does make a big difference.
this is literally what I think too
Well, in my opinion the second and third books were good .
@@tuqaridha4821 I mean, based on the quality of S & B, she’s far from an incapable writer, I mean she went to Harvard and all that so I think it was in her the whole time, but yhe potential was untapped at first.
S & B was the appetizer. Six of Crows was the main course, Rule of Wolves was dessert.
Bardugo wrote SnB as like an "i need to finish at least 1 novel in my life" fuck all book and it shows
This basically confirms everything I suspected about the trilogy and why I never read it. But hey, the Six of Crows Duology is bomb and the Netflix show is good. But the crows are the best part of that as well so....
SoC>>>>>>>>>>S&B
It's so weird seeing how so many people have polarizing views on which is better. Some claim SoC plotting sucked while others say SaB sucked.
I think SaB sucked hard.....Mal is so bland
The Dregs are all that matter.
Tbh I read shadow and bone and I really loved it, I would definitely suggest reading it. Personally I didn’t find it ‘crusty’ but I would recommend reading it because it was actually really good
I didnt like SaB very much bc its pretty much just a basic YA fasntasy, a GOOD basic YA fantasy, yes, but im just kinda tired of that genre. Wheras SoC actually brought smthn relatively fresh to the table.
Also S1 of the show was good, it almost improved the SaB storyline and it added story to the SoC storyline that didnt bother me.... But S2.... No. Just No. They rushed everything that happenned in the books while adding unneccessary stuff to the story.
Also... Darkling is a silly name... it’s like someone accidentally misspelled “darling” and now we’re stuck with it.
as if the entire kingdome couldn't foreshadow what was going to happen.... when his name is literally DARKLING
“Darkling? Bestie, he’s never going to be evil!”
When I first read the books I accidentally read "the Duckling" and I was not able to take him seriously ever since xD
Its an illegal conjoined abomination of "Darling" and "Dark" lol
And then, since I love wordplay-I think that name is good. Plz dont kill me.
I kind of liked the name tbh. In my opinion it’s actually a great name for a fictional character
The Six of Crows duology carry YA fantasy on their backs
No lies detected.
Absolutely true. It’s back is broken in half I haven’t finished the series BUT I FUCKING WILL
I am going to be that annoying person who says: wHaT aBoUt The Raven Boys? Those books are just aMaZinG!
True
@@maria-hr4nz I agree completely with that
it's a crime that you don't post videos daily
luv ya gorl
yyyeapp, I will never forget in the 2nd book how Alina told Nikolai to give her the 2nd army and then spend the rest of the book stressed about the responsability of the army like ???? gurl you were the one who asked!!!
this is like me signing up to go uni and complaining about uni everyday
I think the trilogy is truly a product of its time and the result of Leigh being a newer writer. I'm excited to see where the show goes bc it's possible that Leigh herself changes things.
The show seems to doesn't want to make the necessary changes. In fact it knows its flaws and tries to gloss them over and pretend they have a good story.
“woman in STEM” i’m dyinggg 💀💀💀💀
Shadow & Bone is that one child who dissapoints their parents and brings shame to the family...oh wait thats me 😔
Bestie don't be saying that 🥺
*hugs*
Don't say that, you are amazing. 😊💫
It can be both.
Thank you for the supportive comments y'all are too kind 🥺🥺
bestie i thought i was the only one that didn't care for alina being with any of the 3 guys the points u outlined were so right
i also don't get why people want alina to be with the darkling, idc if he's seggsy he manipulated her, took away her bodily autonomy, and murdered hundreds of people??
Darklina stans are truly a different breed.
Period pooh
On the other hand Alina herself was d most annoying character in the book. If I was Darkling, I would choose Mal rather than Alina😂😂😂
exactly. i only shipped her w genya and zoya periodt
Alina was dumb n I never cared about her at all. Believe me I was so frustrated with her that I wanted Darkling to kill her and Mal at some point 🤣🤣. Mal was still better and useful than Alina though . I would say Darkling and Mal deserved better not Alina. I liked Darkling but never wanted to end her with Alina.
my main problem with s&b was the introduction of "women gets literally any power and immediately starts goin a bit mad/evil" trope. like, it made no sense for alina to suddenly enjoy hurting people/wanting to hurt ppl using the cut. like i read seige and storm 2 days ago and i still don't understand why those moments were there, they don't fit her personality established in s&b
i guess it was there to add a bit of * spice *
I might be a little biased but I don't think it was her power that made her like that. It was her greed. Her need to find all of the amplifiers. Hence the whole 'What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men'.
Her initial goals and motivations were pure but being manipulated by the darkling, constantly confused with mal and even sometimes used by nikolai, she ended up believing that she was exactly what she was viewed as; a very powerful weapon.
So, in my point of view, it wasn't really the power that messed her up. By the end of the series, she still considers it a valuable part of herself that she would never have changed.
But what she went through was serious trauma, dude.
Honestly? I read SoC first too (got around to the og trilogy back in February in preparation for the show) so I spent the entire trilogy being CONVINCED that Alina was going to die at the end. She started doing her “Pokémon, gotta catch them all” thing with the amplifiers and I thought “that’s it, she’s gonna go supernova, go out in a blaze of glory” which I actually thought was pretty baller of her, SO IMAGINE MY SURPRISE WHEN SHE LIVED
I’d literally never been disappointed that a character survived until then, I genuinely think I projected the Alina I wanted onto the story and it genuinely skewed my view of who she was 😭😂
POKEMON ASFSDF
@@itsdivyag Am I wrong tho? 😂
exactly i was waiting for her death and i was so dissapointed
Something similar: my friend described six of crows as ‘sugar scam’ so I read Shadow and Bone waiting and waiting for this sugar scam. I was so disappointed by the lack of sugar scam 💀
Imagine being alive for 400 years and going by the name "darkling" for that entire time
shadow and bone trilogy is a proof of how much leigh bardugo improved through the years, so i don't really mind that it seemed "bland" compared to her other works
And King of scars is a proof of how much bad she has become once again 😅😅
@@fidato_ I feel like she keeps revisiting the grishaverse because it is a pretty good world but it hurts her writing because the characters themselves are bad. Can’t give them depth and a good plot if they’re based on tropes and had writing
@@fidato_ I fear for the their Six of Crows book. After that one comes out I think I'm done with her as an author.
omg im reading the king of scars series and idk why i just don't vibe
@@itsdivyag i haven’t read king of scars, but I’ve heard that it was like Leigh was trying to recreate how good Six of crows was, but she was returning to characters that wwren’t as fleshed out, or as ‘good’. Idk though
THE G STANDS FOR GORGEOUS YOU LOOK SO GOOD IN THIS VIDEO
"Alina's got that gold dofe certificate" is the pinnacle of comedic genius 😂😂😂
LOOOOL WHAT IS THAT ACCENT AT 9:04
Went from French to Winston Churchill real quick
"you know what I'm vegan" DIVYA I CANNOT
vegan gang !
i liked the ending, it made sense cos she never asked for any of this and so she is able to live her normal live with mal in meadows
The only thing I liked about the S&B trilogy is Nikolai and I can live with that
Nikolai is life
I’ll start quoting so many sentences from this video like it’s my Bible
This by far is the most chaotic video of yours and I'm living for it, G
nobody:
*me, far in the background: siege and storm, Nikolai my beloved--*
same 💀
“Six of crows BANGED.”
“Shadow and Bone knocked on the door and ran away.”
💀💀💀💀
💀same tbh hah
I couldn't even finish the trilogy. I tapped out after the second one. It was so boring and nonsensical. Also, Mal was unbelievably bland as a love interest. I mean, he had nothing to add to the story. I just couldn't understand why Alina was so crazy about him. He was literally that high school bestie-kind-crush you're supposed to grow out once you leave school and actually get to see that there's a big ass world out there to explore.
i just adore your editing lol i haven't read the trilogy, but i've seen the show and i enjoyed it! dont really have strong opinions on it but it made me want to read six of crows
also im so excited for your video with nadia
i still simp for the darkling but your impersonation of alina at 4:35 had me in tears
hahaha im glad you enjoyed it
the amount of people who ship alina and the darkling honestly freaks me out,,, same with people comparing kaz from soc to the darkling
Yes 🚩 🚩 major red flags
Agreed. Kaz may be a murderer and criminal, but he still has morals. The Darkling is just a horrible human being all around.
What who r comparing them ? 😂😂Kaz is a positive character n Darkling is a villian
yesss. the darkling literally sucks. but kaz on the other hand!! also i only ship alina with zoya and genya 😙✋
Ya but one need to understand why people are doing this. The big problem is with the books itself. This is the first time I am myself seeing a book where a villian is having more intense chemistry with main protagonist despite of being toxic while her lover is having zero🤣🤣 I hated Mal and Alina in the books. They were🤮🤮🤮 specially Alina. She was so silly and annoying. I never gave a damn about her n who the fuck she chooses. Darkling was the one who was having amazing lines and carried this Grisha trilogy for me otherwise it was boring. But still I was disappointed by the books bcz I wanted him to be more brutal and cunning which he wasn't. Soc was only good work of Leigh. Books needs alot of changes if they want to make Alina n Mal praise worthy. Darkling as a hot villian was amazing not best as compared to my other favorite villians but still he was good as he was having potential to be one of the most remarkable villian but Leigh destroyed it. How the hell people can compare Kaz and Darkling 😂 and why ? Comparing Kaz and Darkling is stupidity. One is a villian and other one is meant to be a hero. Ofcourse there would be difference between their actions. Main protagonists of the books were boring and but I liked Zoya.
Just only read S&B (no plans on reading the other two cause of how cringe it was, but will check out Six of Crows), and my gosh, your review gave my brain cells back! xD
Also the show I found to be so much better lmao.
don’t check out six of crows (or at least just borrow it from a library). i personally couldn’t stand leigh bardugo’s style of writing so if you don’t like her other books i doubt you’ll like it.
@@remib1199 True, I found her style very simplistic and off in a lot of ways. Though having heard how Bardugo improved with her later books, I'm gonna give it a second chance.
Also have used my local library to get S&B anyway so I'm good. 😆👍
@@debzykvids SoC duology imo is completely diff in terms of writing style, plot, and characters and much better than SaB, so really give it a try.
Just finished reading crooked kingdom last night without reading s&b trilogy, so i definitely recommend six of crows
@@remib1199 as someone who hates sab with passion I loved SoC. Maybe it's only you who hates SoC. Let others have the chance to check it out and decide for themselves.
finally someone said it!! anyways, i’ll just go reread six of crows and crooked kingdom for the 100th time
lmao im so glad i can't read it for the first time im so sorry. NOW KING OF SCARS
"he's gonna go and kill harry potter's patronus for her" PLSS
honestly that was my only thought
you look absolutely stunning bestie, i hope you have a lovely day
I just come back to this video daily, laugh my ass off at tHe uNiVeRsE aNd tHe GREEEEEEED OF MEN, and wait for the episode reacting to the show
baahahahds THANK YOU SM
I’m currently reading siege & storm for the first time 😂 your synopsis of S&B has me SCREAMING 😂
I only read the S&B trilogy as research for the show and I’m glad I read it so I could notice details that are clearly setting up for future seasons but I didn’t particularly enjoy the trilogy at all. I’m amazed the show turned out as well as it did. Making Alina Asian gave her material depth and nuance she never had for me as a reader. 😆🤷🏻♀️
I like u bc ur as much of a hater as I am and that warms my heart
I listened to the audiobooks of the trilogy and although I didn’t love it, I enjoyed it and my main motive to listen to them was to accustom myself to the grishaverse and the tv show (which I loved so much!)
Time to dig thru Divya’s channel to see if she’s read the King of Scars duology
I loved the trilogy. SoC duology was definitely on another level though. I liked the ending for Alina. After everything she went through she deserves some peace in her life although I am upset she can't summon anymore.
deffo she never really wanted it
I just wish I got to see more genya, david, and zoya. I guess that's what king of scars is for
Your dialogue is just 👌👌
Alina: you know what im vegan
Darkling: Welp im not *kills da stag*
omg i love the way you explain stories HAHAHAH please do more of these
oof thank you
How do you have a different accent like every sentence? The RANGE! 😂
gotta keep things interesting
The editsss you stepped them up and it's funny. Also your outfit, glasses and chain necklace ting is peng boi
thank youuu
lets not forget that the shadow and bone trilogy was leigh's first ever novels! She has very clearly matured much more as a writer since then, and it makes sense that six of crows was a "better" written book than shadow and bone. Even if the shadow and bone trilogy wasn't the best to some people, leigh still managed to create a very unique universe and characters for her first ever book. not even some experienced authors can ever create a world like that. i wish you guys would cut leigh some slack honestly it's kind of sad that you put her first ever books on this super high pedestal but get upset when they aren't written like Shakespeare.
I just realized this (like a couple of days ago) Alina Starkov’s name has the word Star in it. And as you know Stars are the brightest things against the darkness of space. Woah 😦
The name alina literally means light too.
Mal feels like an off brand Gale😳
BYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Gale was sooooooo boring
you’re 100 percent correct drag theeeeem
OMG YOU'RE FRIENDS WITH NADIA OMG!!!! I LOVE BOTH OF GUYS' CONTENT SO MUCH I ONLY RECENTLY DISCOVERED YOUR CHANBRO AND I'M BINGING!!! The shadow and bone series may not be perfect but it's one of my faves so I can't wait to see your reactions or check them out of it's already posted!!! 😭😭😭💜💜💜💚💚💚💛💛💛💙💙💙💕💕💕
I love her she's so great!! We actually filmed a video but the footage corrupted :/ we'll collab again in the future tho!!!
thank you so muchhh
it blows my mind that six of crows and s&b share the same author
The ending is a true joke like « Hey you know how you’ve heard Alina complain about being too plain yet to powerful and stress about becoming like the Darkling for 1000+ pages ? Yeah ? Well you suffered through her emo ass bullcrap for nothaaaang because she just doesn’t have powers no mo’ and she can « keep house for your little tracker » (The Darkling makes fun of her for ending with a bullshit boring future that’ll make her unhappy in the FIRST BOOK and then at the end she does and I’m expecting to cheer ? Nope)
Gold DofE certificate 😂😂😭😭
Mal was with other women, and meanwhile was all possessive and judgmental of Alina. Shadow and Bone does that love triangle trope that I hate where one guy is not it, but you kind of have to choose him because the other guy is a literal child murderer. I'd rather be single.
I read the first book of Shadow and Bone and I was like nah not gonna finish the series. But the series is so much better than the books! And six of crows is thousand miles so much better than S&B trilogy.
I didn't even finish the series cause I was bored 😂 Six of Crows though, I would die for any of them
The best decision I've *ever* made in my entire life was reading soc before sab because if it was the other way around I don't think I'd ever come back to the Grishaverse 🙂
that's honestly so true
Before watching the video, just wanna say that I absolutely disliked the S&B trilogy. The show is much better. And yes, SoC >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> S&B
Thank goodness they decided to add crows to the netflix series. Without them it wouldn't make any sense as Alina's story was so short and boring and illogical... I mean I don't like characters from S&B at all and I'm not going to read the series. Like there was not enough content to even create a movie and they decided to make a tv series? xd
"Alina's been Lara Jeaning Mal"😂😂😂
am i wrong tho
I felt like the first two books were kinda underwhelming and then somehow enjoyed the last book much more! To me, the ending felt just right. Also, loved the lesbians
Finally someone who feels the same way as I do!
To be real though, the climax of the second book to the first half of the 3rd book was the peak of the plot.. From Alina's was against the darkling in the castle, to being stuck underground, to that moment where they get attacked in the mountain fortress. That was IT.
Then the other half disappointed me. Very anticlimactic.
I just finished S&B and am here because I don't think I'm going to go on. I think it was an amazing book hiding inside an okay book and the okayness won. It's was fine 7/10
Shadow and Bone kind of has all the tropes you’d expect from YA novels such as these. Main character unlocks secret rare power, main villain is after them because of said power, and love interest is vowing to protect them at all costs. Very generic. Hopefully when I get around to Six of Crows it’ll be much more enthralling.
Alina as toast is now my new head canon
It took me so long to get through this trilogy I forgot this video was in my watch later
(sad to report i ended up caring for alina like 5 percent 😔)
your audacity saying nothing about nikolai
yess!!! reacting to lv action of shadow and bone with nadia omgjsksje
hehe coming sooon
First episode in, was confused why they designed the skiff as it is, like why not design a protected or covered skiff to cross the fold 🙃
Does anyone know if it was explained in the book?
Even that can't stop volcras from attacking. You will see that In the next few episodes.
Plus they needed an open space so squallers can drive it. They were manipulating wind to drive the ship forward. They could have made a separate covered area for the passengers but I mean they still would have died so.. 🤷♂️
right? I thought it made no sense to not have something like a metallic submarine that could at least protect them?
@@aurorakarolyn a metallic submarine on their era? Maybe they dont have technology advanced enough?
Alina, the untoasted bread
I'm reading the series rn and my biggest issue was how darklina seems to be a popular ship amongst fans but like in the 2 books I've read theres literally no basis of a relationship. Its all classic evil villain behavior from the darkling and alina literally hates him for a whole lot of the books. Its weird how some fans completely ignore the multiple love declarations for mal. Im not invested in either ship but I just never understood where darklina came from
Grisha means literally Greg in my region. It's strange af. I couldn't get into the book bc it read ridiculously.
a universe where everyone loves danny gonzalez
ASDFASDF
Imagine if Alina got with Zoya and Genya (who is also still with David)
the way you talk about the 1,200 pages reminds me of john mulaney spending $120,000 for college 😭 same vibe man. if you haven't heard his rant about it you should definitely check it out
omg i will do!
I literally couldn't finish reading the first book !
This is easily the most entertaining vide I have watched in a Loong time and that says a lot for a recluse in lockdown who has nothing better to do than read and binge UA-cam 👀 I just finished Ruin and Rising an hour ago and this was exactly what I needed thank yew ma'am. I'm dead 😭🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 PS you have yourself a new subscriberrrr😉
aaa thank you sm and welcome!
Wait... So does the fold ever come down that's all I wanna know
Yes, it gets destroyed in the 3rd book
@@pharaoh4064 thank you!
this video is a work of art
i love you tysm
"so I don't have to handle the paps" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
please shes literally a SAINT. the kylie jenner of grisha kingdom
"you know what- I'm vegan" HELPPPP
she really said she'll call PETA
You’re hilarious. This was a great video!
Glad you enjoyed!
Your content is great. I love your videos! lol
I appreciate that!
We want a shadow and bone TV series reaction video!!!! ❤️
MAYBE! after exams
At the very least, Alina's insecurity is believable to me instead of feeling tacked on afterwards
ive read this in like 2016 and tbh i dont remember almost anything from it lol, i know i liked genya, didnt like alina, hated the darkling and basically got into it for the russian/slavic aesthetics (cause me a slav) which i kinda liked. it was not bad, but as many others in the comments said, you can very well see bardugo was a new author. i think its pretty impressive to see how much she improved in soc as hat duology is amazing, 5/5. havent seen the tv show yet (im 5 months behind but also i dont really watch tv shows) but ive heard its good, but esp cause of the dregs, which,,, im not surprised about lmao. but overall i found shadow and bone ok back then, even quite enjoyed it, but now? for half of the stuff you talked about i had only a very vague memory of and if you didnt say it i wouldnt remember haha.
lmao i looked into my goodreads and i described the 1st book as a "big cliché". in 2015. and gave it 4 stars. i gave all the books 4 stars with no commentary for 2nd and for 3rd i said i like it. but ok i was 16/17 ill have to cut myself some slack :")
subscribed im crying at this
ENJOY MY G
I worship these books, best books ever. Hence you're simply wrong, but I did enjoy the video :)
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I’ve read these books twice and I still don’t remember anything other than the main points that carried over into the show lmao
I agree bestie
thanks for watching bestie
But Six Of Crows and Crooked Kingdom are a totally different story
LIKE THEY ARE G O D L Y
I was about to throw hands until she said six of crows was good
I clicked thinking I've read it BUT I DONT KNOW WHETHER I READ IT OR NOT.. i remember her name but the story.. idk
Maybe there's a spin off or some other book with an Alina I've read
Not Beyoncé for the *I believe in you* 😭
All this humour and where's your tip jar? I am getting these bants for free, I am a THIEF.
Get a ko-fi please.
Thank god Im Not the only one!!!! I hate it!! It’s so boring and formulaic. I’m trying to get through the second book rn.
good luck!!!!
11 minutes and 19 seconds of comedic gold
lov you
I really loved it when i was 15 y/o HAHAHAAH then i re-read it last year, during the first few weeks of quarantine,,,,, at 21 y/o and i was dying like i cant even resell it, nobody wants it HAHAHAHAHAH
Cherish those memories at 15 👌👌👌
Finally someone said it, I dislike Alina's character as well.