Is there romance in Shadow and Bone?

Like any good YA series, Shadow and Bone features plenty of romance. The first season introduced fans of the books and new fans to some of the romantic pairings, like Alina and Mal, Alina and Kirigan, Kaz and Inej, and Nina and Matthias.
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Who is the love interest in Shadow and Bone?

Shadow and Bone's Best Change From the Books is Mal & Alina's Relationship. Mal is one of the weakest characters in the Grishaverse book series. In Netflix's Shadow and Bone adaptation, his relationship with Alina is the show's foundation.
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Is the darkling in love with Alina?

Bardugo, the author of the Grishaverse novels as well as executive producer of the show, walks a very fine line. She doesn't objectively romanticize the Darkling, but lead character Alina Starkov, against her will and better judgement, does, to an extent.
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Does Grisha Trilogy have romance?

Maya Ross Yes, all six main characters do have a love interest with each other. The Grisha Trilogy is set two years before it and written before it but, you do not need to read before Six Of Crows.
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Do Mal and Alina get together in Shadow and Bone?

In the epilogue, Mal and Alina marry under different names and re-open the Keramzin orphanage, the place they grew up in.
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Do Alina and the darkling end up together in the show?

Ultimately, though, Mal and Alina are endgame. After three books of will they or won't they, Alina's dalliance with the Darkling, and near-engagement to Nikolai, the pair end up together running the old orphanage where they grew up in Keramzin.
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Does Alina sleep with Mal?

Mal and Alina grew up in an orphanage together and became separated when Alina came to the Little Palace to whip her powers into shape. And they're not technically lovers yet, but many stand by this canonical ship.
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Are there LGBT characters in Shadow and Bone?

Kit Young plays the wise-cracking sharpshooter Jesper Fahey, who is gay in the books. His sexuality isn't dwelt on at length in the TV series, but one of his storylines in an episode reveals that he is queer. Jesper, together with Inej and Kaz Brekker, form the criminal gang known as the Dregs.
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Why is Shadow and Bone 16+?

Images include dead bodies, dismembered limbs, and characters dying in pools of blood or with gory wounds. Sexual content is less intense, mostly flirting and kissing, although some scenes take place at a brothel (no sex work shown).
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Is Shadow and Bone steamy?

Whether we're talking the hot and heavy love triangle brewing between Alina (Jessie Mei Li), her childhood sweetheart Mal (Archie Renaux), and the smoldering Shadow Summoner, the Darkling (Ben Barnes), or the tortured crushes characters like Inej (Amita Suman) and Kaz (Freddy Carter) carry for each other, Shadow and ...
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Does Alina kiss the darkling?

Alina kisses The Darkling first in 'Shadow and Bone'

In Bardugo's first novel, which is also titled Shadow and Bone, Kirigan kisses Alina without warning. The first kiss between the two characters differed in the show, and instead, Alina makes the first move.
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Did the darkling have a wife?

Many centuries ago, known then as the Black Heretic, the Darkling returned home to his partner Luda, who was also a Grisha Healer.
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Does the darkling kiss Alina in siege and storm?

Over the other's protests, Alina orders Tolya and Tamar to prevent Mal from stopping her from surrendering to the Darkling. She promises Mal that she has always loved him and that their story will never end, and then goes to the Darkling and kisses him.
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Who does Nikolai end up with?

Nikolai asks Alina to return with him to Ravka and help him to defeat the Darkling. He also proposes marriage to her, suggesting that such an alliance would make both of them stronger and allow them to unite the First and Second Armies against the Darkling.
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Does Alina end up with Kirigan?

Despite Kirigan's attractiveness, this is obviously a big no-no for Alina and she ditches her romantic feelings for him. In the end, she's reunited with Mal, and though they do not exactly define their relationship, they might not have to.
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Do Nikolai and Zoya end up together?

In Rule of Wolves, Zoya confesses that she loves Nikolai, and at the end of the book, it is implied that Zoya and Nikolai intend to marry.
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Can I watch Shadow and Bone with my parents?

On Netflix, Shadow and Bone is rated TV-14 for language, violence, and nudity.
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Is Shadow and Bone ya or na?

fantasy mostly built on smoke and mirrors. Jessie Mei Li and Ben Barnes in the Netflix drama 'Shadow and Bone' (David Appleby/Netflix).
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How old is Alina in Shadow and Bone Netflix?

BEST: Making the Darkling look older

In the books, the Darkling appears to be only a few years older than Alina, who is 17.
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Who is Alina in love with in Shadow and Bone?

In the second book, Alina meets Nikolai Lantsov, the second prince of Ravka and a privateer trying to claim the Ravkan throne. The two become allies, and he eventually attempts to begin a romantic relationship with her.
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How does Shadow and Bone end?

How did Shadow and Bone end? They find the stag, but Alina can't kill him before the Darkling's army arrives. The Darkling kills him and makes Alina an amplifier, binding her to the Darkling. The Darkling forces Alina to travel to the Fold under the guise that she will destroy it.
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Who is Nadia in Shadow and Bone?

Gabrielle Brooks: Nadia, Nadia Zhabin

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Do Alina and Mal kiss in the book?

Mal and Alina kiss right before finding the stag in the book. In both the books and the show, Mal and Alina spend several key days together in the forest after she escapes from Kirigan. In the show, Alina decides they should track down Morozova's stag.
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Did Mal and Zoya sleep together?

The only real difference in behaviour is that Mal doesn't sleep with Zoya when they meet in the first episode (episode 1 minute 17:59), which we are told that he does in the book.
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What book do Mal and Alina get together?

Over the course of Shadow and Bone and its sequels, Siege and Storm and Ruin and Rising, Alina forms romantic attachments with Mal and two other men: the Darkling and Nikolai. Keep reading to find out more about them, their relationships with Alina, and which one she chooses in the end.
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