And they blew it up.
He got paid. I started watching the show and it was decent. I started to read the books and I just didn’t have the patience to finish even one. I had a set of four paperbacks in a box. I got somewhere to the point where aria chased her wolf away and kaitlin was ia wandering dead corpse and I couldn’t read any more. They were way slow paced and not that exciting. I left them sitting for a decade and finally put them in the donate. After HBO let those two morons produce their committee collaborations I swore that I will never subscribe to HBO again. I invested 10 years into it and in the last five episodes they retroactively destroyed it all the way back to the beginning. If anyone ever asks me about it I say don’t bother.
The last season by HBO was messed up, but the books were fantastic until you realized it was a dead story and you had little idea of how it would end.