First Kill by V. E. Schwab: Book vs. TV Show

Show of hands, who here has already binged First Kill?! 🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️ This sapphic vampire and vampire-hunter romance has been ALL OVER the internet the past few weeks in advance of its release. And you know as a HUGE Buffy fan and sapphic girl myself, I had to binge the entire thing the weekend it came out!

Y’all, I was SO excited. Me and my girlfriend pretty much just squealed the entire watch time. As my girlfriend put it: “now I finally get the Twilight obsession!” 🧛🏻‍♀️🗡🩸🖤

Did I think it was the best show I’ve ever watched? Absolutely not. 🙅🏻‍♀️ But was it cute and fun and silly and squeal-worthy? YES. If you’re a fan of any teen supernatural romps you will enjoy yourself. This show is really campy and definitely a throwback to those types of series (cringy CGI and all, lol).

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Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo: Book vs. TV Show

At this point I’m pretty sure everyone in the bookish community has heard the words Shadow and Bone. Based on the super popular YA fantasy book series by the same name, the new Netflix show feels like it’s all anyone can talk about. So, of course, I decided I had to check it out.

And, I was honestly really excited? I hadn’t watched a good fantasy series in a while and Netflix usually does a surprisingly good job at their book-to-screen adaptations (see my The Haunting of Hill House: Book vs. TV show post for example). My partner on the other hand, was super hesitant. But I begged and she relented and we finally sat down to watch it. And we were both pleasantly surprised by how much we got into it!

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson: Book vs. TV Show

I knew I had to do at least one Book vs. Movie/TV comparison during the month of October, and what better choice than a ~spooky horror story~ like The Haunting of Hill House. With the TV show’s sequel, The Haunting of Bly Manor having just come out, I finally sat myself down and watched its scary predecessor that I had been meaning to watch for almost 2 years, but had continuously been putting off because it looks significantly frightening.

Of all the book-to-screen adaptations I’ve compared, The Haunting of Hill House is definitely the most intentionally divergent work. And I say this not only because the original novel was written in 1959 and the Netflix TV show is a modern retelling that came out in 2018. Besides the almost 70-year modernization, Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House is an altogether different beast than the original novel written by Shirley Jackson.

Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty: Book vs. TV Show

Hello, fellow readers! 👋 It’s been a good long while since I did a book/media comparison, so I’m excited to finally post this one! Today I wanted to discuss Liane Moriarty’s Big Little Lies with the HBO series of the same name.

Both the book and TV show are seriously popular, and have won lots of awards, so this should be an interesting discussion!