The series portrays some of the most formative experiences for them, such as Inej making her first kill.

In Six of Crows the three are already working together and we don’t get much more than small glimpses into the events that formed their relationships.

The wonderful thing about this change however was that we could see in real-time how Kaz, Inej, and Jesper slowly started growing closer, forming those (in a way reluctant) bonds of friendship (and possibly love?). This of course added an unexpected layer to their stories and some pre- Six of Crows titbits that will later affect their heist story and their relationships. In the series we have Kaz, Inej, and Jesper being hired to kidnap Alina Starkov for Dreesen, one of the members of the Merchant Council and a new character for the series.

We know from the books that Alina and the Crows never met in either the Shadow and Bone trilogy or Six of Crows duology, but that obviously had to be changed if we wanted to tie the two stories together. We have to talk about the Crows and their involvement with the whole plot. This article will contain some heavy spoilers for the show and the books so do keep that in mind! Time to get our magnifying glass out. Let’s try to whittle out some of the biggest changes that were made in the show! Everything in a book does simply not translate to the screens and some changes are understandable, even if not liked by everyone. We are all very well aware that no book to movie or TV series adaptation will ever be a page-by-page adaptation. Now that we are done sighing over Milo, seeing how perfect the Crows were, what a step up it was to actually see Mal’s point of view on screen, and how we would still go with the Darkling (General Kirigan) even knowing he is bad, we can get into the nitty gritty bits of the show! And by that, I mean it’s time to do some in-depth analysis of how well the show actually adapted the books. Okay so if you are like me, you have probably binge watched Shadow and Bone on April 23rd then promptly rewatched it a few more times over the next couple of months to let it all *sink in*.

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