World of Warcraft: Stormrage [Hardcover]

Richard A. Knaak (Author)

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Product Description

When the world of Azeroth was young, the god-like titans brought order to it by reshaping its lands and seas. Throughout their great work, they followed a magnificent design for what they envisioned Azeroth would become. Although the titans departed Azeroth long ago, that design endures to this day. It is known as the Emerald Dream, a lush and savagely primal version of the...

WORLD OF WARCRAFT

Many are the mysteries surrounding the Emerald Dream and its reclusive guardians, the green dragonflight. In times past, druids have entered the Dream to monitor the ebb and flow of life on Azeroth in their never-ending quest to maintain the delicate balance of nature.

However, not all dreams are pleasant ones. Recently the Emerald Nightmare, an area of corruption within the Emerald Dream, began growing in size, transforming the Dream into a realm of unimaginable horror. Green dragons have been unexpectedly caught up in the Nightmare, emerging from it with shattered minds and twisted bodies. Druids who have entered the darkening Dream lately have found it difficult -- sometimes even impossible -- to escape.

Nor are these the Nightmare's only victims: more and more people are being affected. Even Malfurion Stormrage, first and foremost of the druids on Azeroth, may have fallen victim to this growing threat. As uncontrollable nightmares spread across the world, a desperate quest begins to find and free the archdruid.

Soon nature's enemies will learn the true meaning of the name

STORMRAGE

About the Author

Richard A. Knaak is the New York Times bestselling author of some three dozen novels, including the The Sin War trilogy for Diablo and the Legend of Huma for Dragonlance. He has penned the War of the Ancients trilogy, Day of the Dragon and its upcoming followup, Night of the Dragon. His other works include his own Dragonrealm series, the Minotaur Wars for Dragonlance, the Aquilonia trilogy of the Age of Conan, and the Sunwell Trilogy -- the first Warcraft manga. In addition, his novels and short stories have been published worldwide in such diverse places as China, Iceland, the Czech Republic, and Brazil. 

Product Details

• Hardcover: 432 pages
• Publisher: Gallery (February 23, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1416550879
• ISBN-13: 978-1416550877
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #28,911 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars A Mixed Dream, September 7, 2010

By	Hoosier Ninja "Shinobi From the Heartland" (San Antonio, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: World of Warcraft: Stormrage (Hardcover)

This book does a few things really well and a lot of things wrong which is why I'm giving it two stars.

On the up side the author clearly did their homework on the WoW world. Lots of names and locations pop up in the story and I really liked that I could go "Oh, my character has been there!" or "The person gave my character a quest." So it's pretty easy to get into the world and get excited about the backdrops.

Now without going into major spoilers there were also lots of nice moments mixed in like people from all the races having to band together to fight a common threat (WoW loves that theme), getting to see a runestone in a story and the short but very cool appearance by Sylvanas Windrunner.

So while the feel of the WoW world is really well done the characters and the story aren't. Some of the most powerful people in WoW are taking on a single threat that they end up being able to do almost nothing about. Until the very end pretty much everyone is at best holding line or running away. Seriously, the heroes of this novel run away in the course of one story than Shaggy and Scooby do in the whole history of Scooby Doo.

It got to the point where the last 100 pages where just a slog and I was happy to just be done with the book so I could go read something else. "Lord of the Clans" this ain't.

Overall, save your time and money for something else.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I've read every WOW book, this is by far the worst., July 14, 2010

By	markus0i - See all my reviews

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This review is from: World of Warcraft: Stormrage (Hardcover)

The books terribly abuses lore for the sake of the authors personal Mary sue characters.

It's also incredibly boring and repetitive. 400 pages of "Heroes attack fog, fail and retreat!"

Finally, the cliche manner that the heroes beat any villain by "digging deep" made me roll my eyes every few pages. This isn't Dragonball Z.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This book was really a Nightmare!, June 28, 2010

By	Hiruu (All around the World, baby!) - See all my reviews

This review is from: World of Warcraft: Stormrage (Hardcover)

I must say, Knaack's writing was a serious disappointment. I've been reading fantasy and sci-fi since 1985, when I first read the hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and I've read major writers over the years (Assimov, Jordon, Weber, etc.) and I've have to rate Stormrage's writing near the bottom. I was a bit surprised, given how many books he's already written in the series. I have a problem with writers in love with their own work, and Knaack definitely is fully in love with his pen. This book was very difficult to get through, and but provided some great lore background.