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World of Warcraft: Stormrage | 
| Author: Richard A. Knaak
Publisher: Gallery
Category: Book
List Price: $25.00
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 47711
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 432
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.3
ISBN: 1416550879
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781416550877
ASIN: 1416550879
Publication Date: February 23, 2010
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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
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 A Mixed Dream September 8, 2010
Hoosier Ninja (San Antonio, TX USA)
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.
 Amazing! August 19, 2010
Anohka
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book was amazing. I agree with a previous post that the author really took his time to learn the locations and NPCs in the game. I read the 'War of the Ancients" archive and was so impressed with Knaak and how he took the lore and brought it to life and this book just further impressed me. I would recommend this book to anyone who plays W.o.W or just wants a good book with lots of adventure, danger and an extremely tolerable love story.
 I stoped in the middle August 17, 2010
André Figueiredo (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I played Warcraft III for at about 7 years and I'm a WoW player now. I've read many Warcraft and WoW books. So I can say I now a little about World of warcraft lore. And the interesting thing is: this is really not important in this case. No matter if there are a lot of WoW lore in this book, because, with all due respect for the writer, the book is very boring. I stoped in the middle.
Bad bad bad August 3, 2010
Cam
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I don't know WHY Blizzard keeps hiring Knaak but it's a HUGE mistake. The only reason I continued reading this book is for the love of the characters, Malfurion and Tyrande, and because I had absolutely NOTHING to do.
His writing style is so difficult to follow and left me frustrated throughout the entire book. If you can get this book for a dollar and have unlimited time on your hands, then go for it.
I've read every WOW book, this is by far the worst. July 14, 2010
markus0i
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
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.
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