Review of 'World of warcraft : rise of the horde' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
While better than the last Warcraft book I read, this book is altogether just as average, though I did enjoy Christie Golden's writing. Unfortunately, it's all very black and white, scratching characters on the surface. But I get ahead of myself.
The story of Rise of the Horde gives a lot of backstory of how the once beautiful world of Draenor ended up being the broken world of Outland that we know today. Sargeras makes his offer to the three most powerful eredar: Archimonde, Kil'jaeden and Velen. Velen refuses and flees from his former friends, taking loyal people with him. They come to Draenor, homeworld of the orcs, those draenei, and all is well for 200 years. Until KJ finds them, and turns to the orcs to corrupt them, to use them as tool for destroying Velen and his people.
As a big whopping TBC lover, I had fun reading …
While better than the last Warcraft book I read, this book is altogether just as average, though I did enjoy Christie Golden's writing. Unfortunately, it's all very black and white, scratching characters on the surface. But I get ahead of myself.
The story of Rise of the Horde gives a lot of backstory of how the once beautiful world of Draenor ended up being the broken world of Outland that we know today. Sargeras makes his offer to the three most powerful eredar: Archimonde, Kil'jaeden and Velen. Velen refuses and flees from his former friends, taking loyal people with him. They come to Draenor, homeworld of the orcs, those draenei, and all is well for 200 years. Until KJ finds them, and turns to the orcs to corrupt them, to use them as tool for destroying Velen and his people.
As a big whopping TBC lover, I had fun reading about the life of the orcs and the various locations. It makes me want to log on, fly to Shadowmoon Valley and watch the shade of Gul'dan corrupting his people. It is obvious Golden has played WoW, because she describes elements from the game, like the various demons of the warlocks, quite well. Unfortunately, as mentioned above, the characters are very one-note. Gul'dan and Blackhand are just evil and power-hungry, with no real depth to them. Durotan is the good guy, the hero that tries to do the right thing. Again, little depth.
Regardless, I shall plod on, because it is quite fascinating to read about the events I have played through for years now.
