Leigh Bardugo
Life Events
| Date | Event | Details |
|---|---|---|
6 April 1975 | Birth | Born in Jerusalem and raised in Los Angeles, Leigh Bardugo published her debut novel Shadow and Bone in 2012 after working in advertising and special effects makeup. The Grishaverse has sold over three million copies and was adapted into a Netflix series in 2021. |
Birth6 April 1975
Born in Jerusalem and raised in Los Angeles, Leigh Bardugo published her debut novel Shadow and Bone in 2012 after working in advertising and special effects makeup. The Grishaverse has sold over three million copies and was adapted into a Netflix series in 2021.
Universes (1)
Series (3)
King of Scars
Grishaverse
Nikolai Lantsov, King of Ravka, is trying to hold his country together in the wake of the war that ended the Shadow and Bone trilogy, while carrying private wounds that he can confide in almost no one. A duology following the political aftermath of the original trilogy, with Nikolai and his general Zoya Nazyalensky navigating a kingdom still fractured by war, a new religious movement, and threats from within the court and without. More explicitly political than its predecessors, and more interested in what it means to lead than in the discovery of power.
Shadow and Bone
Grishaverse
Alina Starkov is a mapmaker's assistant in the Ravkan army when she discovers she is a Sun Summoner: a Grisha with the rarest power in the world, one that could destroy the Fold and reunite the kingdom. Brought to the Little Palace to train under the Darkling, the most powerful Grisha alive, she begins to understand that power this rare attracts attention of a particularly dangerous kind. A trilogy about the cost of being extraordinary in a world that wants to use extraordinary people, and about whether the promise of salvation is ever worth the price attached to it.
Books (7)
Shadow and Bone
Shadow and Bone
2012
Alina Starkov has spent her life as an orphan in Ravka, working as a mapmaker's assistant in the First Army. When her regiment attempts to cross the Fold, a swath of impenetrable darkness filled with monsters, Alina discovers a power she never knew she had. Taken from everything she knows, she is brought to the Little Palace in Os Alta to train as a Grisha under the mysterious and magnetic Darkling. The first novel in the trilogy establishes the world, the magic system, and the central tension between Alina's growing power and the people who want to control it.
Siege and Storm
Shadow and Bone
2013
Alina and Mal are in hiding when they are found by the Darkling and his fleet. Escaping with the help of a privateer named Sturmhond, Alina begins to build something of her own: a following, a court, and a second amplifier that could make her the most powerful Grisha alive. The middle novel of the trilogy shifts the action to Os Alta's political landscape and the burden of becoming a symbol as much as a person.