The long-running Italian cartoon about a group of best-friend fairies, Winx Club, is one of the few explicitly girl-focused shows to make the transition to a darker, edgier live-action. Fate: The Winx Saga by Netflix casts the same spell on the bright, visually vibrant cartoon that Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and Riverdale did on their family-friendly Archie Comics counterparts. It has a surprisingly nuanced plot that delves into the consequences of war across generations — but it comes at a cost, both for the characters and for that familiar sense of friendship and mutual support. In the first episode, we see Bloom (Abigail Cowen) moving into Alfea, a boarding school for fairies and specialists (male fairies) in the Otherworld. The first person she speaks with is a specialist named Sky (Danny Griffin), who discovers that Bloom is from the "realm" of California and that she had no idea she was a fairy three months ago. She meets her roommates, including Stella (Hannah
This review contains no spoilers! I know I'm a little late to the party, but I finally started the Grisha series! (Also, I've been dying to read the Six of Crows duology, and while I know it's not necessary to read the Grisha trilogy to understand SoC, I wanted to be familiar with the entire Grisha universe.) Leigh Bardugo's, Shadow and Bone, is a high fantasy novel and the first book in the Grisha Trilogy. It takes place in Ravka, a fictional town inspired by Russia the country is divided by the Shadow Fold, a place of darkness in the heart of Ravka teeming with creatures hungry for humans. Alina Starkov and her regiment are on a mission through the Fold when things go wrong, and in a panic, Alina reveals a "magical" power she didn't know she possessed that saves her troop. The Darkling, Grisha's leader, learns of her situation and brings her to the king's court to help her control her power and possibly change the fate of the entire kingdom