I'm pretty sure all of these reviews about the show being "Similar" to the books are posted by bots lol. But before I start my review know that this is my personal opinion. Almost the only thing this show and the books have in common is character names and the title. It does have really good actors in it however so I decided to give it two stars instead of one. But my advice to anybody who is interested in the story is this, either read the books or watch the show, but do not do both. Because in my personal experience you will be disappointed. The people who created this show added a ton of things to it that have absolutely nothing to do with the real story that happened in the books. Events happen very differently people are in places where they should not be. Things happen that never happened before. Lore is told in a different way than it should be told. People are capable of things that they shouldn't be capable of. People behave in ways that they shouldn't. Characters that aren't actually in the story are magically here. I didn't put a lot of hope into this show to begin with after hearing about its production, and I'm glad that I didn't because it was worse than I thought it was going to be. If they make a second season hopefully they do better with that one and hopefully the creators read the whole story instead of the back cover of the book.