World of Warcraft: Stormrage

By: Richard A. Knaak

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins

Publisher's summary

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.

©2010 Richard A. Knaak (P)2010 Simon & Schuster

Narrator

Had a hard time with the narrator pronouncing people and places wrong, like Sylvanas and Anduin but it is a great story.

great book

great book. narrator mispronounced a lot of names, but was over all good. do recommend

THAT'S NOT MY NAME THAT'S NOT MY NAME!

What did you like best about World of Warcraft: Stormrage? What did you like least?

Through the entire book the voice actor butchered EVERY single character name, and location name. Eventually I just assumed it was completely intentional. When they began to repeat phrases talking about multiple butchered names that's when I started to have issue. "Te rany da was at Teee dra liss she was looking at the sky through Tee dra liss Te ran day was worried about her beloved. Looking at Teee dra liss you could see Naaadreee dra lisss's impact Naaadreee dra lisss was the first world tree but Teee dra liss now stood."

Would you be willing to try another one of Richard Ferrone’s performances?

No.

Was World of Warcraft: Stormrage worth the listening time?

If you're a huge fan of the lore you can get by with some minor bumps in the road.

For fans of the lore behind Warcraft.

Very good story, great reading and extremely fun to learn more of the characters of Warcraft.

good book bad narrator

narrator was terriable he could not pronounce names or places right and had a very limited range of voices. half the time you trying to figure out who was talking.

Great story, funny pronunciation.

Story was great, and reader was good. Only problem was a few terms/names/words seemed to be pronounced oddly or incorrectly.

Reader should quit and never taint another book!!

Please redo this book, The talker yes talker not reader is terrible, it would have been so much better with someone else.

Decent story, poor narration, scattered scenes

Narrator butchered character names and gave really distracting inflection to character voices that didn't match up to the scene or the lore. The story was decent overall, but the chapters left the narrative feeling very scattered and incoherent at times. Love WOW, but found this one to be not as good as others. I'd go with another story of you are picking this as your first dip into the WOW novels.

did you guys pay this man to mispronounce as many

I'm not the biggest fan of Malfurion so I knew reading his book would take me a little longer than the others, but the voice acting on this actually just made a book I could've listen to in three days take two weeks because of this man's cadence and his ability to mispronounce every single WoW word he can.

how do you pronounce korialstrasz and not krasus haha.

book was better than I expected though.

It's Alright.

It wasn't Bad. in my opinion the Delivery was a bit Dry. Unfortunately. Not super blown away though.