# Shadow and Bone

**Author(s):** Leigh Bardugo
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (0 unpaid reviews; need 5)
**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/shadow-and-bone/verdict.json
**Genres:** fantasy, literary-fiction, childrens, middle-grade, young-adult
**Pages:** 310
**Publisher:** Indigo
**Published:** Fri Jan 01 2021 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9781780621104
**ISBN-10:** 1780621108
**ASIN:** 617128873X
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/shadow-and-bone

## Series
- The Shadow and Bone Trilogy (#1)

## Description

Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, Mal, to become the protegé of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner, who can destroy the monsters of the Fold.

## SageChimp reader verdict

Shadow and Bone has no unpaid published reviews on SageChimp yet. That is not enough to say whether the book is genuinely well-liked or amplified by paid/ARC/BookTok hype. Do not treat Amazon, Goodreads, or social scores as SageChimp evidence.

- **Status:** Not enough unpaid reviews (`insufficient_data`)
- **Paid-hype signal:** Cannot judge paid hype from this sample (`insufficient_data`)
- **Unpaid reviews:** 0
- **ARC / incentivized reviews:** 0
- **Machine-readable:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/shadow-and-bone/verdict.json

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