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Cycle of Hatred (World of Warcraft) (Bk. 4)
Price: $7.99
Description
The Burning Legion has been defeated, and eastern regions of Kalimdor are now shared by two nations: the orcs of Durotar, led by their noble Warchief, Thrall; and the humans of Theramore, led by one of the most powerful mages alive -- Lady Jaina Proudmoore.But the tentative peace between orcs and humans is suddenly crumbling. Random attacks against Durotar's holdings suggest that the humans have renewed their aggression toward the orcs. Now Jaina and Thrall must avert disaster before old hatreds are rekindled -- and Kalimdor is plunged into another devastating war. Jaina's search to uncover the truth behind the attacks leads her to a shocking revelation. Her encounter with a legendary, long-lost wizard will challenge everything that she believes and illuminate the secret history of the world of...
This book holds the honor
Date: 2009-05-25 Rating: 2 out of 10
This book holds the honor of being the only book I have ever thrown in the garbage in anger before finishing. It's a terribly written book with a mediocre plot. Checking the author's personal web site revealed why he painted the characters the way he did. The plot just seems to ooze with the author's personal socio-politcal beliefs which might not be a bad thing if such beliefs furthered the plot along. It's not enough for the author to paint women as strong and influential (which is often done, and done well, in the Warcraft universe). No, the author also has to paint nearly all males in the book as mean and/or ignorant. I'm not hard to please when it comes to fantasy novels but this book was unbearably bad. If you're craving some more Warcraft lore, go back and re-read one of the books by Knaak, Golden, Rosenburg, or Grubb. I read them and enjoyed them all. How Blizzard let this book slip by their quality control is simply beyond me.
BewertungenterribleDatum 2009-04-30 Rang: 2 von 10this is definitely the worst of the warcraft book series...
a large portion of the novel just doesnt feel like it belongs in the warcraft universe... the method with which the differing races communicate, their approach towards each other, it feels like it was written by a child... like a 5th grade project or something... terriblePassableDatum 2008-10-04 Rang: 6 von 10I didn't out and out hate it, and it did shed some light on various events, however I most definatly agree with other people on here that it is by FAR the worst written Warcraft book. Its worth it (to me) if you are a big fan of Warcraft, or simply looking for soemthing different to pass the time, but the book feels like it has less depth then a sheet of the paper it is printed on. Get it to fill out your colletion, read it once, then shelve it permanatly.A good readDatum 2008-05-17 Rang: 8 von 10This was a good book, and well worth reading, but I didn't like it as much as the other Warcraft Novels.A great book for getting into the WoW book series and Warcraft lore in generalDatum 2008-05-04 Rang: 10 von 10As a semi-casual WoW player, I probably would never have picked this up, if I hadn't been absolutely book-less a few minutes before a 10-day at-sea cruise. I saw this book, and the War of the Ancients trilogy. The WotA books just looked, well, boring, and daunting. So I got this book.
I'm so very glad I did. I enjoyed it immensely! The inaccuracies mentioned in other reviews, while existent, didn't really take away from the story, in my humble opinion.
This book is really what sparked my love of Warcraft lore. I loved reading about the places and people that I'd visited and seen in the game, and even now, two-plus years after reading it, passages still stick in my mind as I gallop through Azeroth, four characters later.
As a Warcraft newcomer, I felt that I got a better grasp and a better love of the virtual world my characters inhabited by reading this book.
On a slightly unrelated note, I thought it was great how the publishers highlighted Jaina on the back cover of this book, thought it would have been nice if, you know, the front cover reflected the book's main focus at all. I suppose that the publishers felt that they needed a fight on the front to sell a book.
Really, though, I've recommended this book to people who don't know or like WoW, and they've loved it, just as I did. In fact, this book is what convinced my cousin and my roommate to start playing WoW with me. They play Horde, but created Alliance alts just so I could show them Jaina.
Yeah. It's that good of a book. Well, it's no Chaucer, and perhaps it's more of a marketing tool than a book, but it's enjoyable, none the less. :)
Produkt InformationAutor:
Keith R. A. DeCandido
Recording label: Pocket Star Hersteller: Pocket StarEAN: 9780743471367Format: Mass Market PaperbackDewey decimal number: 813ISBN: 0743471369Artikelzahl: 1Seitenzahl: 272Erscheinungsdatum: 2006-01-31Sprache: English (Original Language)
Sprache: English (Unknown)
Sprache: English (Published)
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