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thales_the_sage's review against another edition
adventurous
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
fuascailt's review against another edition
3.0
I never really saw much of Aegweyn in the game, and even in Legion I was never a Mage, so, I never got to have her whispers or anything from the Arcane artifact (I think she has those?) so my knowledge on her was poor to limited, but in this book, wow, I really got a look at her and she is wonderful and that is including what she did to sire Medivh, which I knew from the game was questionable - but I never knew much else, apart from Medivh himself, so seeing her point of view of the story was actually really heartbreaking, how she went from arrogance to the realistion that what she had done was awful, just awful, and how she tries to make it right.
Her being Jaina's advisor, now that I did not know about at all! That may not be in the games, maybe? I was not alliance long, but a good few years before horde became my main faction and I never heard of this event.
As for Jaina herself, I never liked her, in the games anyways, I have always shit-talked the little lady, but in the books she is kind of cool and I will conceed, as a horde player, even though she went bat-shit looney on us, and bolted when we were let into Dalaran in Legion, she is a pretty cool lady, and I like her now. Still for the Horde and Thrall, even though I have always been a bit "eh" for Green Jesus as a whole, due to his whole "the spirits have forsaken me, so ya know I'll just abdicate and ya know let Garrosh run wild and do shit" thing, I think he is an awesome character to read, I love his voice in the book and its just wonderful.
Overall, it was a great book, I liked seeing all the characters I know in a different way, and having their voices and not just small quests, or little cut scenes, it was nice. Also some new side people I had never heard of, even though I have more hours in game than I care to admit. <3
3.75/5 for me.
Her being Jaina's advisor, now that I did not know about at all! That may not be in the games, maybe? I was not alliance long, but a good few years before horde became my main faction and I never heard of this event.
As for Jaina herself, I never liked her, in the games anyways, I have always shit-talked the little lady, but in the books she is kind of cool and I will conceed, as a horde player, even though she went bat-shit looney on us, and bolted when we were let into Dalaran in Legion, she is a pretty cool lady, and I like her now. Still for the Horde and Thrall, even though I have always been a bit "eh" for Green Jesus as a whole, due to his whole "the spirits have forsaken me, so ya know I'll just abdicate and ya know let Garrosh run wild and do shit" thing, I think he is an awesome character to read, I love his voice in the book and its just wonderful.
Overall, it was a great book, I liked seeing all the characters I know in a different way, and having their voices and not just small quests, or little cut scenes, it was nice. Also some new side people I had never heard of, even though I have more hours in game than I care to admit. <3
3.75/5 for me.
reilala's review
adventurous
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
hidekisohma's review against another edition
3.0
So I finally got around to reading the first WoW book they published. This book takes place a short while before Vanilla begins and...by far and large, the story was... all right?
It started out strong enough. Tensions between humans and orcs are rising and all out war is only being stopped by Jaina and Thrall. in the meantime though there's a force trying to get the two to fight. On paper this sounds like a fine idea. In execution... eh. It was all right.
There are some problems i have with this book. First of all, they put WAYYYY too much importance on Jaina and Thrall. They act like Jaina is the super Jesus king of the world and there's even a scene where someone says "don't make fun of jaina or i'll kill you!" it's a little..weird.
Thrall is on the same page, to a slightly lesser extent.
Another problem is that Jaina kind of goes off on a tangent meeting an old wizard lady and it then goes into some flashbacks of this woman's life. I'm sitting here like "um..weren't..weren't we talking about the orc/human tensions?" I'm sure Aegwynn is an important lore character but......it's not the right story to drop this into.
Without spoilers, the ending is a bit weird with a happyish ending as this is obviously not how vanilla wow is set up, so something else must happen in between this and vanilla, but i don't know if there's another book in the meantime or not.
It was a fine enough sidestory without any real meat to it. There was little consequence where everything kind of goes back to status quo and it left me feeling like "well...i sure read that." 2.5/5 rounded up to a 3.
It started out strong enough. Tensions between humans and orcs are rising and all out war is only being stopped by Jaina and Thrall. in the meantime though there's a force trying to get the two to fight. On paper this sounds like a fine idea. In execution... eh. It was all right.
There are some problems i have with this book. First of all, they put WAYYYY too much importance on Jaina and Thrall. They act like Jaina is the super Jesus king of the world and there's even a scene where someone says "don't make fun of jaina or i'll kill you!" it's a little..weird.
Thrall is on the same page, to a slightly lesser extent.
Another problem is that Jaina kind of goes off on a tangent meeting an old wizard lady and it then goes into some flashbacks of this woman's life. I'm sitting here like "um..weren't..weren't we talking about the orc/human tensions?" I'm sure Aegwynn is an important lore character but......it's not the right story to drop this into.
Without spoilers, the ending is a bit weird with a happyish ending as this is obviously not how vanilla wow is set up, so something else must happen in between this and vanilla, but i don't know if there's another book in the meantime or not.
It was a fine enough sidestory without any real meat to it. There was little consequence where everything kind of goes back to status quo and it left me feeling like "well...i sure read that." 2.5/5 rounded up to a 3.
aiko98's review against another edition
3.0
Nikdy jsem z knihy nebyla tak zklamaná jako z této. Oproti ostatním knihám z tohoto světa mi tato knížka přijde odfláknutá. Jako by to autora přestalo v polovině bavit a rychle to ukončil. Takhle na mě ten konec působil.
kadomi's review against another edition
3.0
It's been on my to-do list for ages to read all the Warcraft novels out there. I've been playing the games since Warcraft 2, might as well owe up to it! Years ago I read Day of the Dragon and genuinely disliked it. As Blizzard put just about all their lore developments prior to MoP in books and comics, I wanted to read up.
Goodreads told me this is the first book, so off I went. It's incredibly short. Set three years after Warcraft 3, pretty much at the start of the World of Warcraft, it is set in Kalimdor. Trouble is brewing between the Theramore humans and the Horde in Kalimdor. On both sides the conflict is fanned by a mysterious group called the Burning Blade. Jaina and Thrall try to solve this conflict, as it looks like war might break out.
So far so good. There's not really a whole lot of action in the book. A lot of vignettes about rising trouble, and some investigative work, an interlude with Aegwynn and stories about her past, and then the force behind the Burning Blade is defeated. It sometimes felt like fan-fiction and not a real professional novel. Characters were incredibly flat. I guess Jaina is the main protagonist, but she doesn't really stand out as having a personality. None of the characters really do. There's an air of non-seriousness about everything, even the bloody battle scenes.
Why still three stars? Because I enjoyed reading about Kalimdor, and familiar names. I am the odd person who gets the shivers and feels at home when entering The Barrens, so it felt like reading about my home. Yeah, weird, I know. Of course that also drove me a bit mad, because the book's Durotar is very different from the game's version. Forest around Thunder Ridge, farmland, no fishing? I don't think so.
Despite all the flaws I was decently entertained, so it's 2.5 stars rounding out to 3. I'll take this over Knaak any day!
Goodreads told me this is the first book, so off I went. It's incredibly short. Set three years after Warcraft 3, pretty much at the start of the World of Warcraft, it is set in Kalimdor. Trouble is brewing between the Theramore humans and the Horde in Kalimdor. On both sides the conflict is fanned by a mysterious group called the Burning Blade. Jaina and Thrall try to solve this conflict, as it looks like war might break out.
So far so good. There's not really a whole lot of action in the book. A lot of vignettes about rising trouble, and some investigative work, an interlude with Aegwynn and stories about her past, and then the force behind the Burning Blade is defeated. It sometimes felt like fan-fiction and not a real professional novel. Characters were incredibly flat. I guess Jaina is the main protagonist, but she doesn't really stand out as having a personality. None of the characters really do. There's an air of non-seriousness about everything, even the bloody battle scenes.
Why still three stars? Because I enjoyed reading about Kalimdor, and familiar names. I am the odd person who gets the shivers and feels at home when entering The Barrens, so it felt like reading about my home. Yeah, weird, I know. Of course that also drove me a bit mad, because the book's Durotar is very different from the game's version. Forest around Thunder Ridge, farmland, no fishing? I don't think so.
Despite all the flaws I was decently entertained, so it's 2.5 stars rounding out to 3. I'll take this over Knaak any day!
kylepatino's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
alex_gremlin's review against another edition
2.0
Nach dem ersten Kapitel abgebrochen, da es zu viele Übersetzungsfehler beinhaltet, die mich beim Lesen stören.