Not being a big reader I chose to watch the movies first...Big Mistake, because I was left wanting to more story so I picked up boook 3 assumeing that is where movie 1 and 2 stopped....I was so lost becuase entire crucial characters were left out. Events like marriages were left out...the movies just do not follow the books. I had hoped they would have follwed the novels as closely as the harry potter movies followed the books but i was disappointed. Although the movie are still good to see but don't expect a pictorial depiction of the books.