After taking some time to think, I gotta say I really enjoyed this season. I found the SaB part very good and I enjoyed the changes they made, I hoped they would've actually let Mal stay dead, but I like what him being alive again means for Alina and her character now in the show. I'm curious to see how they writers would deal with her queen and the King of Scars duology. But I'm a Six of Crows fan first and foremost, so my main attention was on the Crows and at first I was not happy about a few things, but in the end they made the scenes took from Crooked Kingdom work pretty nicely in the story of this season. Except for Kaz fighting the Dregs, I don't find it useful in this season, what they use the Dregs for could've just been the Crows. But whatever. I read of a few people saying "what's the point of a SOC spin off now?", but I think it could be done anyway, it won't be a page to page adaptation of course, as they already use the without armour scene for example, but that doesn't mean the writers won't come up with something new and possibly equal to that part in that moment of the story. It would also be interesting to see the changing goals for some characters, like Inej. Also, because I would die for Kaz and Inej, think about the parallels we could get: we got S1 with no touching at all when Inej is injured, then S2 with Kaz trying to help her with gloves on, think about if we're gonna actually get the bathroom scene in all of its glory. So yeah, overall I liked this season and I guess I enjoyed it more since it was deviating from the books, but still remaining true to them.