I loved the first season one of this excellent show! I was impressed that it followed the book closely, and was not put off at all by the reasonable compromises the writers made to fit the book to the TV format. Many book adapters, at some point, decide to completely abandon the original story in order to accomplish some new goal. Hopefully this won't happen to this wonderful story.

Having said that, I'm wondering how the writers will fit the second book (Shadow of Night) into a ten episode series. The second volume is much longer and more complex than the first, with major storylines each unfolding in a completely different setting (England, France, back to England, Poland, and back to England again). Each of these settings comprises a story in itself.

As do most readers, I hate it when a series tries to stretch out a good thing just to gather more advertising revenue, dwelling on subplots and essentially irrelevant details, or simply inventing new material. The story always suffers from such machinations. But this is one case where it would make a lot of sense to stretch season two by either splitting it across two seasons (please don't!!!) or expand ten episodes to twenty-two (that would be ideal).