This is like typical Netflix cgi show with a half-decent story behind it. The story starts abruptly without explaining what's going on, and actually throughout the story some of it is just never explained. (I'm just speaking as a general audience of the Netflix show, I haven't read the book, but in my experience, the story in the book is usually better, so here I'll be reviewing this series as somebody who's only seen the series)

Also [spoiler] at the 1st site of royalty, and only a few days after not hearing from mel, Alina just starts being a bi*ch?? Wtf? This doesn't even resonate with her character in the rest of the story. [/spoiler]

The CG is fabulous, they tried to make a game of thrones killer(at least the media thought that) but either the story doesn't have that potential or the Netflix adaptation is so poor that it isn't even close to Game of thrones. At least at that short span of time I can say that the characters of the story had lot of depth, but Netflix never cared to explore, as they rushed so much.

But overall, a good watch, worth your time. But seriously if it would've been an anime, this would be at least 2 season worth of material that Netflix crammed up on 1.