Honestly, I really don't know how to feel about it, the story is already so different from the books and I'm only on episode one! The quality of the film is wonderful though, and the actors are just as I envisioned the characters. I read the books for the first time when I was about 8 and have read them over and over again since. I really do urge people to read the books which are much less confusing. I know if I hadn't read them I would have no clue what is going on in the series. Is kind of hard to understand.