
I'll be a villain with him and we'll rule over Ravka together. I know he's a villain and a toxic character but I DON'T CARE. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Or make him charismatic, and beautiful, with an incredible character arc.Īleksander is my favourite character in the entire Shadow and Bone series, hands down. If you wanna make someone fall in love with a villain, just cast Ben Barnes for the role. I loved him as a book character and I love him as Ben Barnes in the show. I'm a sucker for awesome villain origin stories, what can I say? I especially loved this origin story because it's about my favourite literary villain even, The Darkling. "The Demon in the Woods" is my favourite short story in the Shadow and Bone series. Leigh Bardugo is an evil mastermind and it shows. I'm not even remotely surprised that I loved this so much. ❗ Contains some spoilers for the Grishaverse series❗ Trigger Warning: Minor depictions of death As long as this heart beats, you keep fighting. I find myself delighted with the book and feel like everyone should read this (or the novel) if you have always been a fan of Grishaverse. The graphic of the Darkling itself may not correspondent to what I was hoping it to be, but it was still neat and workmanlike. The panel competently illustrated the story without being abrupt or rushed. While I find this short, I also think it suffices and is just enough for us to remember who the Darkling once was and how remarkable his memoir had been.

We learn about his actions and choices from the series, and this graphic novel is designed to make readers mourn for its heartbreaking content while also knowing how the narrative unfolds for the Darkling in Ruin and Rising.

Just the innocent, striving Aleksander who only wished to see his people safe and protected. If I get to describe this book in a sentence, I'll say this is: The Darkling original villain story.ÄŞnd this book helps us to get a glimpse of Aleksander. When Bardugo claimed she wanted to make a tyrant you could picture yourself following and someone you wouldn't disregard? I think she did a very good job with the Darkling. The Darkling's transformation into a morally dubious character by Bardugo is one aspect of the series that I will always remember.

I wouldn't say Leigh Bardugo's 'Shadow and Bone' series is one of my favorite series, but just maybe, Darkling might have been one of my ultimate favorite villains in fiction.
