After reading the books which the first season was mostly based on.. I feel very strongly that they have taken this great story, mixed it up and invented some new parts and turned it into something that has just some good parts.

In the story "Something more" in "The sword of destiny"(the book) , it had indeed truly something more that linked all the threads up in a great and powerful story.

Sadly the series fails to bring that. Or maybe it wasn't creators goal? After reading it seems like she just wanted to push the content and characters of two books into 8 episodes..