[ SECRET POST #5923 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5923 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[Buck from 9-1-1]



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[City of Light]



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Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

Beautiful cover art. Love the font too.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree with every word, OP. I was so happy to see the Crows show up, but in all honestly, theirs is the much better, stronger story overall and their use to flesh out S&B was awkward. 6 OF CROWS more than deserved its own series.

[tabaqui]

So much this. I just got these two books from my local library and I'm already SO HOOKED. The librarian tried to tell me i needed to read the Shadow & Bones ones first to learn about stuff, blah blah, but no way in hell am I subjecting myself to that. I've seen the series and read the Wiki, I'm good.

[(Anonymous)]

I did the same after my friend's suggestion. First I read the wiki for the first trilogy and then enjoyed reading Shadows & Bones. Honestly I think I didn't miss anything of importance. And this was even before the series.
ENJOY THE BOOKS! They're very cute and engaging :)

[tabaqui]

The only thing that keeps tripping me up is that the characters are all teenagers. Wasn't really expecting that, though I don't know why. I guess because the 'Crow' characters, other than Inej, don't seem that young to me. I didn't even know they were YA books!
But yeah - having fun. :D

[(Anonymous)]

OH YES the ages were a surprise to me, too!
Fortunately I can easily ignore details so I actually imagined them to be all 20+ years old (for example Wylan for me was around 21-22, Jesper 23 and Matthias around 28 years old). If you imagine the actors of the series is even easier!
IDK for me imagining them a little bit older made everything more interesting and tragic because it meant that they had an even longer and possibly shittier life before the books' events. Poor Crows :(

[tabaqui]

Awww! Heh.
Yeah, being so young is just weird, I'm definitely seeing the series cast and not whatever the author had in mind, and *NONE* of them screamed 'teen' except *maybe* Inej, like 18 or 19. Certainly not, what...17?

I'm actually taking the book to work tonight; I usually just read online, but I'm too interested. Which is AWESOME, because I'm finding it harder and harder, it seems, to find new profic that's actually interesting.

[(Anonymous)]

You're not missing much, S&B was her first big trilogy and it's a bog standard YA fantasy love triangle, afaic. The only thing that kept me reading was the interesting fantasy Russia setting. The 6oC duology is absolutely fantastic, it was like the real Leigh Burdugo showed up. That was literary glow up.

[tabaqui]

If the first three are *anything* like the first season of the series (or even the second), then I missed nothing. Other than the lovely Crows. :D

[(Anonymous)]

I read them both without knowing anything about Shadow and Bone, loved them, didn't feel like I was missing anything storywise or lore-wise (the books explain all you need to know about the world) for not having read S&B. I tried to read S&B afterwards and didn't make it past the first book.

[tabaqui]

That seems to be the consensus!

[(Anonymous)]

Everyone who read both series knows that SoC is vastly superior to SaB.

I'm crossing my fingers we get a SoC spinoff on netflix soon.

[tabaqui]

Wouldn't THAT be awesome...!

[(Anonymous)]

i mean.. they did tease the ice court plot & the parem plot. I'm hopeful and excited!

[tabaqui]

Yessssssssssssssss....

[(Anonymous)]

I've only read the first one and it wasn't good. It was cliched and the characters were paper thin. Not only that, but the book was full of Mary Sue/ Gary Stu moments and it made me cringe. Bad YA is bad.

[(Anonymous)]

They are so much the best part of the adaptation, though! Last week I saw someone asking if anyone had made a supercut of Shadow and Bone with only the Crows parts!

But I think it's fine to have them be part of the bigger show - the main storyline parts can handle all of the boring exposition while the Crows get to run around the edges having fun.

[tabaqui]

HOMG, if anyone makes a Crow-only supercut, please share! I found myself ff-ing through the Alina/Mal/Kirigan crap, even the new season; it was just so boring and the story was actually fine without it.

[(Anonymous)]

I've not read the books, only watched the show, but the Crow trio were my favourite characters in season 1 by far and I didn't hate Alina or her story I felt it was just... very standard fantasy fare? Which isn't a bad thing but it wasn't massively appealing for me, it was fine. My main issue was how she had almost no agency at all in s1, which was deliberate with the whole Kirigan thing sure, but I hope she drives her own plot more in s2 because I like her well enough, I just want a bit more oomf from her is all, lol. But I'm most looking forward to the Crow trio again, they were great and I do agree they deserve to be more than the B plot in the show.

[(Anonymous)]

I secretly think those two books were ghostwritten. Nobody's novel writing skills could have improved that much in just a few years.