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 was a little dull but the story was great

storage was a great telling of not only the telling of the druids but loved the continuation fand connections with the war of the ancients

Please pronounce the names right!

Good lore book, enjoyed listening while leveling. Very annoying the way the author pronounces 75% of the character, item and location names incorrectly.

Stormrafe

great story I love it. I belive this gives details about legion I didn't know about looking forward to the next book I buy

Good story, mediocre narrator.

The story itself was good. The narrator was obviously unfamiliar with the World of Warcraft franchise. Many of the names were mispronounced, which was disappointing and mildly irritating for me.

Great as ever! Maybe too great?

Indeed another great chapter of this Lore. The only problem I saw by the end was the great emphasis put on Malfurion. He ends up doing more than anybody else and I wonder if that's coherent. But that's not a bad thing in itself, just a comment. :)

As always, great deeds, great sacrifices and great heroes!

Alright story, bad narration

This one was.. painful to listen to. I wish the narrator knew how to actually pronounce the names... The speed of narration was also all over the place. The story seemed to jump around a bunch too, but was alright enough.

great story poorly read

I love most of the warcraft books and have read most of them as well but the narrator mis pronounced almost every name in the book think maybe he might have taken a minute or 2 to learn how to pronounce the names correctly since there its so easy to find recordings of the names being pronounced right instead of spending 12 hours sounding like an idiot. This is a very specific book and will probably mostly be heard by warcraft fans like myself get better narrators this guy sucks

terrible voice over

the book itself was good, it jumped more then the usual book but the voice over guy was awful i cringed every time he said a very simple name wrong, he clearly never looked up the material he was reading, an shame on those that edited it an didnt say anything to him

bad narration

obviously the narrator has never played the games. can't pronounce anything correctly. terrible... redo with another narrator.

meh

there seemed to be a departure from knaak's normally enjoyable storytelling. I continued to listen for the lore but frequently felt like things were a bit disjointed. the narration was such that I kept checking to see how much time was left before the book was ended. odd pacing, pronunciations were off (subjective I know) and an overall feeling of this was just a paycheck. I struggled with the 3 stars.