I picked to read this book after I watched the Netflix adaptation. I had really enjoyed the show so I wanted to see how close the book would follow to it, and then try to figure out why things were changed. After reading the book I can say that, for the most part, the TV show only changed the characters and left the plot alone. The same things seem to happen in both things, but the people are completely different. The tv show introduced a few great new characters to us that the book either glosses over, doesn't have, or is a combination of a few smaller characters. The TV show also stepped up its racial diversity. But all of that really comes down to stylistic changes, both are good with what they have. That saying, the biggest character change of all, was Takeshi Kovac. Maybe I found the main character of the TV show hard to read because most of his acting is actions instead of dialogue, but he comes across as more of a bad guy rogue. The book allowed him to be funny and even cheerful at some parts. That's not to say that the TV show didn't have him laugh, but he seemed more plagued by his past than anything else. Book Kovac is constantly stalked by an ex-partner who is missing an eye (TV is a black woman lover who lead his rebel team) but even in the moments of an one eyed ghost telling him how to change his life, Kovac seemed less melancholy. I have to chalk this all up to being able to understand his thoughts, something a book can give you the privilege of that the TV cannot.
Amanda
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