"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Mal becomes the next Sturmhond. Alina accesses a darker side by using merzost and can summon shadows.

All eight episodes of the second season of Netflix’s YA fantasy series Shadow and Bone dropped today, March 16. The show, which features extensive fantasy world-building, is based on a book — actually ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alissa Paine, the daughter of a powerful Hunter family, is hiding her own secret: the fact that she is actually a Wielder. At 18 ...

Shadow and Bone season 2 is now on Netflix. The first season of Shadow and Bone pulled off a near-impossible task: it successfully combined two separate stories and sets of characters (from the novels ...

But when it comes to the second season of Shadow and Bone, it’s evident which characters the writers understand and which ones have been reconstructed to use as puzzle pieces in the larger framework.

Romantasy fans expect a lot from TV book adaptations, but the sad truth is that even when everything is done right, there's no guarantee of success.

The darkness is coming in "Shadow and Bone" Season 2. Well, unless Alina Starkov can stop it. The second installment of Netflix's fantasy series arrives Thursday, and things are not going well for our ...

Right away, showrunner Eric Heisserer made some bold choices — pulling in characters who don’t canonically get introduced till after the main series? Making Alina half-Shu? Adjusting the core romantic ...

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We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we love. Promise. In the second book, after he survives the Volcra, the Darkling tracks Mal and Alina pretty easily. He's ...