Shadow and Bone: Will Leigh Bardugo write a third Six of Crows book?

Netflix’s new show, Shadow and Bone, is officially less than a month away from hitting Netflix! Could we see a third Six of Crows book by Leigh Bardugo in the near future?

With the premiere of one of the best fantasy shows of the year – yes, Shadow and Bone is THAT good – so close, it’s time to catch up on Leigh Bardugo‘s books. Rules of Wolves, which is set in the same world as Shadow and Bone and Six of Crows, was just released on March 30, 2021, aka today!

While Shadow and Bone isn’t my favorite book, Six of Crows won me over from the beginning.  So much so that, immediately after finishing it (and healing my Kanej heart a bit), I started Crooked Kingdom, and my Kanej heart suffered more, but that’s another story. Still, without finishing reading this second book of our Crows, I already want the third!

You see, I have a pretty strange hobby that consists of reading the last pages of a book when I start it, and Crooked Kingdom was no exception. So, I know how it ends and that’s why I’m sure I need a lot more.

There are some loose ends that need to be resolved like Kanej’s relationship. After that beautiful gesture from Kaz, if they both team up to rid Ketterdam and The Barrel of slavers, what happens to Jesper and Wylan? How is Nina getting over Mattias? There’s a ton of stuff to tell a good story, to close the circle.

I don’t like open endings, and I prefer a happy ending because life outside the books already makes us suffer too much. I need to close that circle. That’s why I need a third part of Six of Crows.

Is there a third Six of Crows book?

Not so far, and it doesn’t seem like there will be anytime soon.

The author, in 2018, confirmed on twitter that this possible third part of Six of Crows could happen, although it would take years to do so. Is that still the plan?

Much has changed in three years. Bardugo is pretty busy right now with Shadow and Bone series on Netflix and the duology about Nikolai, which includes Rule of Wolves, so it’s possible we’ll never see the third book in the series.

I can see it from another point of view, though. Shadow and Bone is going to be an indisputable success; that’s a fact. Perhaps it may be time to continue to please the fans by giving us more Six of Crows and tying up some loose ends? We hope so!

Some fans might want Six of Crows to stay as a duology. This is very interesting to me. Reading Crooked Kingdom for the first time and knowing how we all love the Crows, I found it ironic that part of the fandom was hoping we wouldn’t see more from these characters.

But, honestly, Matthias’s death still hurts, and we can’t contemplate the death of Kaz, Inej, Jesper, Nina or Wylan. It would be too much pain for our hearts.

I still want to see a third Six of Crows book, but we’ll just have to wait and see if it ever happens.

Stay tuned for more news about Bardugo’s books!

Shadow and Bone hits Netflix on April 23.