A real tragedy, considering the showrunner assured the public they would directly translate the books without inventing anything new. Instead, they kept a few core events and altered everything else about the story and characters. As a Witcher "adaptation", it is an absolute failure in every respect except for Cavill's performance as Geralt (which by his own admission has been heavily altered and hamstrung). As a standalone piece of fiction hijacking the Witcher universe to tell different stories than the books, it is a high produced piece of forgettable CW-level garbage.