World of Warcraft: Stormrage

Malfurion Stormrage's story is one thing that kept me addicted to the druid class in World of Warcraft. In fact, I've been playing as a druid for about five years in the game now. The story of Malfurion and Tyrande has always left me searching for more, scrounging for more lore anywhere I can find it. Needless to say, I was quite excited when I saw this book was going to be released.I wasn't disappointed. The story is rich and exciting. I found myself reading faster and faster to reach the conclusion because of the action within, and gasping at certain events that I won't mention to not spoil it for those that haven't read it. The quality of the story is absolutely amazing and was well worth the wait.Toward the end, the delivery of the story was not executed as well as it could have been, which has always been my slight complaint with Knaak's books. Some descriptors were used repeatedly on one page, to the point where I felt I was reading some of the same things over and over again. Please understand this is a nitpick of mine, but it became so distracting to me that I had to start some pages over.That being said, I am still a fan of Mr. Knaak and I respect him a great deal for weaving a story so epic. I will continue to purchase his books, and overall the story was well done. I definitely recommend this book.

One of the best books of the serie in my oppinion. A little difference in outcome, though, compared with the WOW game. Ysera still lives. As do Elerethre Renferal.Tyrande's wedding with Malfurion- masterpiece!

After reading the last couple of World of Warcraft books, I had despaired of finding another book in the series as good as the first that I had read. I was kind of disappointed by this book. This story focuses primarily around Archdruid Malfurion Stormrage and the love of his life, the High Priestess Tyrande Whisperwind. Sensing a darkness in the once tranquil Emerald Dream, Malfurion leaves Tyrande behind to investigate it. In the process, he is captured by a mysterious evil known as the "The Nightmare Lord". In the meantime, Tyrande and her fellow priestesses have been watching over his body and taking care of it so that he may return to it. However, when she begins to receive dire visions from the moon goddess, Elune, she enlists the aid of Druid Broll Bearmantle to enter the Emerald Dream and search for Malfurion. Many other characters are brought into the fight as the Nightmare Lord's power spreads across Azeroth. Innocent people are falling asleep and not waking up. Their dreams are overwhelmed with nightmares that they are unable to escape. Soon a dark mist with shadowy figures surrounds those few that are still awake. Those that are still alive must band together to fight it.I enjoyed reading more about Malfurion and Tyrande. I think the enemy and his methods of attacking were very creative. Although the story-line wandered to other POVs it still came back to the two main characters. As with most of the other books in this series, I found the gaps in the story-line from previous books to be a bit disconcerting. Just from the references, I could tell that there was other stories that had happened previously to these events (i.e. Broll's story with King Varian). I also found that the two main druid characters- Malfurion and Broll- both had a serious issue with lack of self esteem. They were constantly questioning whether they could actually do what was needed of them. When anyone else would tell them that they were the key to defeating the Nightmare Lord they tried to rely on others rather than believing what was being told to them. It was all rather depressing. Only when they finally got over themselves and pushed themselves past their self imposed limits were they able to fulfill what they needed to get done.I felt that this book dragged on much longer that it really needed to. There were multiple times that I thought they were going to defeat the enemy only to have some minor set back. There were also many that were dragged into the fight, that didn't really seem to serve any purpose. Reading this was a bit of a chore.

This author is not my preferred one, but this work of his is much better written than his other books in the WoW series.The 5 star is solely for the lore content and biased because of my Nelf Druid. This lore has always been near and dear to my heart and while I wish it was told better with a different author, worthy of the task, I still enjoyed reading this book.For those who don't know, this book encompasses Malfurion Stormrage and his love, Queen of the night elves, and high priestess of Elune, Tyranda, and their battle against The Nightmare in The emerald Dream. The tainted Emerald Dream seeps into the woken plane of reality and attacks all in Azeroth.

This book is a little bit of a mixed blessing. As with any of the Warcraft books, it counts as canon. The plot is a little simple, but not overly so, and benefits majorly from not including Knaak's favourite 2d character Rhonin in one of the major roles. It's nice, for a World of Warcraft fan, to see the inclusion of some bosses from the vanilla game. It's also nice to have some tie-ins to the comics, in a way, although you don't lose anything major from not following them.The book is readable, but it is a struggle to do so at times, due solely to the comic-book style the writer uses. His overuse of ellipses and italics for emphasis continues. He also appears to have planned several scenes in a different way to their final iteration, and not checked the continuity. There are places this makes the book overly confusing.I would recommend the story to Warcraft fans, but I feel Knaak would benefit greatly from reading books by other, more established fantasy writers in order to move away from the world of comic-book scripting.

Overall, the story was great. I really like it...However, the dude read the book wasn’t very good. I’m pretty tolerant when it comes to audiobooks. But this guy pronounced every charters names completely wrong. The one that got me the most and almost got me to stop listening to it was Krasis. This dude kept saying Crashes not Krasis.... if you’re gonna do the audiobook... Make sure you know how the characters names are pronounced correctly before you do it.

Having read Richard A. Knaak's Moon of the Spider book, in my opinion a wonderful read, I was looking much forward to reading his Stormrage. The book being about the impressive night elves and their headstrong leaders Malfurion Stormrage and Tyrande Whisperwind, I imagined to dig into some powerful writing, but was, unfortunately, let down. The book feels costly rushed and the strong characters seem vague and ill-described. While A. Knaak manages to maintain a comfortable pace of storytelling, I miss some detail and feeling. It feels shallow and almost as if A. Knaak is not interested in Malfurion's tale, and that is a big shame. The book is interesting, and it would be a shame and a lie to say I did not enjoy reading it. Had it been probably 100 or maybe less pages longer, I could have enjoyed it more. Such characters and such tales of fright just need more attention. It wasn't one of those books I just couldn't put down, but that being said, it was well worth my time and especially the last part of the book was interesting.If you are a fan of the warcraft universe, the book is worthy of a read (:

This was by far the hardest wow book i have ever read. I am a wow lore junkie and was really looking forward to this book as it covers really interesting bit of the wow story, this is not one of Richard Knaaks best books. The story goes round and round once a character has been described it is almost like that is copied and pasted every time their name is mentioned. There are a few nice bits of lore but there really was a tough battle to get through

i bought these for my son, he likes WOW and has a lot of books to do with with this. he says they are very enjoyable to read and would highly recommend to anyone that likes this sort of thing, and especially if you play the game.

The book is great, came on time, as advertised, amazing for Warcraft lore lovers and collectors. It's smaller than I expected but that's not a problem.

The book arrived really fast in perfect condition.There isn't much to say about the story itself, regrettable.It is predictable and not really impressive, at moments i actually got bored.If you don't expect too much(yes it's a computer game story after all), it can be rather enjoyable.