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

A key part of the wow story, told improperly.

Richard Ferrone was a complete narrative failure. Beyond butchering the pronunciation of every character and locations name, his monotone and utter apathy left me confused on who was speaking and what was happening during most conversations. I skipped to the end after nine hours just to write this review

Great book, but not a good reader.

This is an amazing book by a guy who has done it amazing job with other World of Warcraft lore book. However……. The guy reading the book is Horrible with the names of the characters. I can’t even finish the book because it’s so annoying hearing him say one of the names completely wrong. I’m sure this is amazing book and I would love to finish it if someone else would eventually narrate it.

Weird pronunciations, but good

The performance was mostly amazing. My only gripe was the sheer number of mispronunciations of people, places, objects.. I don’t know if there was a meeting that usually happens where they go over these things and they didn’t do that here, but it would’ve been an A+ if it wasn’t so jarring to hear these.

Great story, bad pronunciation

I enjoy the works of the Warcraft universe but the pronunciation of names in this audiobook are cringe-worthy. I understand that this was done in 2010 but proper pronunciation for these characters are well documented by then. The fact that these pronunciations made it through multiple people make me question if anyone took this work seriously.

Great continuation!

Wonderful addition to multiple previously written novels as well as several surprise storyline twists. Wonderful character development and story conclusion conclusion.

Good story that suffered from the performance

The story itself was very interesting and kept me coming back for the details of a major event in Warcraft lore, despite the lackluster performance. If you're going to read for an established franchise, learn to pronounce the names and places first! It seriously takes away from immersion to constantly hear the irksome pronunciation.

Buy but remember it's so long

3% in oddly almost done glichy long perfect that's what it is overall :-) 😊

Good story, bad performance

For an avid World of Warcraft player and someone who consumes all the WoW lore he can and was very frustrating to have to listen to the narrator butcher the names of main characters and places throughout this entire story. I wish someone from Blizzard had taken the time to at least review this recording before publication. Maybe they could have taken a few minutes to educate the narrator. This is by far my least favorite WoW story on Audible.

good reader but....

the reader was good and clear but some of the annunciation was extremely off and anyone a fan of the warcraft series might be slightly annoyed.

a good book

really enjoyed it though the narrators inflections and pronaounciations of some names sounded funny. :^)