I'm like the headmaster of this school because it frustrates me so much when the names of places and character names and things that are using made-up languages or new languages or borrowed elements from Slavic languages, like ours does-it has all of those things in it-and I can't bear it when I watch TV shows and it's inconsistent how people are saying things. Glamour: Tell me something I don’t know about working on Shadow and Bone.īen Barnes: The thing that nobody knows is that I'm the professor. “It took me a while to get here, but the really nice upshot of doing it at 40 is that people sort of say, ‘Oh, I love watching you because it made me feel like I can too.’” “I feel free,” Barnes says with a weighted breath of relief. He may be right about that, but as he opens up about making bolder choices and creating his own album from scratch, the answer comes to him more naturally than he expected. “You'll know more snappy Taylor Swift references than I will,” he jokes. When I ask Barnes to title this latest chapter in his life, he tosses the ball back to me. By season two the surprise villain is openly embracing what Barnes calls his “vengeance era.” The Darkling) in Shadow and Bone-the Netflix series based on Leigh Bardugo's popular Grishaverse novels-he gaslighted his way into viewers' hearts with a toxic combination of manipulation and charm. Fans of Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson will find much to admire.That same year Barnes became the face of yet another “fantasy thing” but not as the roguish young hero. 'Storytelling assurance rare for a debut. Fans of Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson will find much to admire.'' - Guardian

The Licanius Trilogy is a series readers will have a hard time putting down - a relentless coming-of-age epic from the very first page. To the west, a young man whose fate is intertwined with Davian's wakes up in the forest, covered in blood and with no memory of who he is.Īnd in the far north, an ancient enemy long thought defeated begins to stir. But when Davian discovers he wields the forbidden power of the Augurs, he and his friends Wirr and Asha set into motion a chain of events that will change everything. Now, those who once served them - the Gifted - are spared only because they have accepted the rebellion's Four Tenets, vastly limiting their powers.Īs a Gifted, Davian suffers the consequences of a war lost before he was even born. It has been twenty years since the godlike Augurs were overthrown and killed.

A young man with forbidden magic finds himself drawn into an ancient war against a dangerous enemy in book one of the Licanius Trilogy, the series that fans are heralding as the next Wheel of Time.

In the shadow of what was lost