There are different scenes that sound good in a book but would make it poorly to the movie. I think the adaptation of books is handled very well. Some scenes are optimized, some are changed, some stay the same. Story includes the same tension the books do and looks good on the screen. One of very few good fantasy works here that I can totally recommend. Even battles look good and logical mostly, unlike in Game of Thrones which was far more focused on kingdoms, skirmishes and battles. So I am very happy about the show.

There are two downsides. I understand why filmmakers put black people in this Slavic world and I quite like the idea of dryads being black. But an elf? I think they could make a better work of utilizing them. My second problem... is not really mine. I just guess, the people who don't know the story will have a work to do to understand it. Show follows three storylines - Ciri, Gerald, Yennefer. All of them often refer to the same event, same place, but in entirely different time. Drop your attention and you will get confused fast if you don't know the story already.

9/10, I am positive the following seasons will great, first one was just a warmup, where the characters meet each other ;)