Romantasy · 2012
Shadow and Bone
by Leigh Bardugo
Book 1 of The Shadow and Bone Trilogy
- Spice
- Sweet
- Ending
- Happy for now
- Reading age
- Young adult
Tropes
About the book
Alina is an orphaned army mapmaker until a monster attack in the Shadow Fold drags out of her a power nobody has seen in centuries. Taken to the Little Palace to train under the Darkling, she's pulled between him and Mal, the boy she grew up with. No spice, happy for now.
Content warnings
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Reported by readers (not in the author's note)
- Sexual assault
- Gore
- Serious injury
- Murder
- Attempted murder
- Kidnapping
- War
- Animal death
- Slavery
- Death of a loved one
- Death of a parent
Source: triggerwarningdatabase.com, app.thestorygraph.com, litcharts.com, retrieved 2026-10-21
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