

Because Six of Crows is set years after the Shadow and Bone trilogy, it will spoil the events of the trilogy if they pick it up first. This required some tweaks to the timeline that new fans might be confused by if they try to pick up the books after watching the show.įans should be wary of spoilers of they try to dive into the books after watching the show. However, the show hardly touches on the real plotline of Crows, instead creating new ways for those characters to participate in the Shadow and Bone story. In the books, the duology takes place two years after the end of the trilogy, but in the show the Crows characters are included from the beginning. She then wrote a separate story about brand new characters in the Grishaverse called Six of Crows, which was spread across two books starting in 2014.

Bardugo created her "Grishaverse" world with Shadow and Bone in 2012 and went on to complete that story in a trilogy of novels.
