I highly recommend the Six of Crows duology (heists in fantasy steampunk Amsterdam!), but the first Grisha trilogy is pretty rote fantasy YA - Bardugo definitely upped her game between them. The show improves on that first trilogy quite a bit by giving the main girl more agency and spiking the obligatory love triangle pretty definitively by the time the season is over. Plus it provides a whole new adventure for three of the Crows that intersects in ways the books don't until later. Ben Barnes is fantastic in it as are the actors cast as the Crows. I would definitely recommend it, and once it gets going, it's pretty compelling.
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