War of the Ancients is one of my favorites. It was my first warcraft book(mom my gave it to me for xmas because I like lore and it was on of the recommended books on a wowinsider shopping list for lore lovers). I've gone on to read many more warcraft books.
War of the Ancients pretty much cemented my love of Malfurion and Tyrande. I understand that others who are more familiar to the original Warcraft games lore find the book frustrating because of the time travel and changes that happen to history as a result. I view it much like a CoT instance.
Krasus, Rhonin and Broxigar are sent back in time to fix something that went awry in the past. Of course, unlike us they don't have a handy bronze dragon to give them a quest and tell them what to do. Eventually win the trust of some of the kaldorei despite xenophobic night elves society. Rhonin is all star struck, tempted by the well of eternity and worried about changing history. Borxigar is prosaically interested in getting the job done and beating up the burning legion. Krasus(Korielstrasza) meets his younger self and angsts over all the bad stuff that is going to happen to Alexstrasza and his inability to prevent it. You run into pretty much all the heavy hitters of night elf society that were alive back then.
The books are not deep prose and they aren't suppose to be. They are a quick read I finished the whole thing in two days. Knaak writes a light fast paced adventures with grand powers, quests and pivotal battles. Characters development is through their actions since they spend most of the book reacting to the situations.
I highly recommend the book for a fun read and have read it over a few times. That being said instead of buying it I think your friend should hit the inter-library loan on them first. I am a voracious reading and read much faster than most. For most people I think this would be a read it once, enjoy and move on sorta book.
My library network has several copies of the various war of the ancients novels. The other more recent WoW books tend to be there in larger libraries as well because they hit the NYT best seller lists.
So in short, definitely read it. If you have a limited book budget, get it from the library.
(I ended having to write this twice. When I was reviewing my first response I realize it veered off from answering your question and meandered in to a soup-box on the misuse of the terms of gary-sue and mary-sue and a frank discussion on why I think both knaak and golden are good authors for what blizzard has chosen them to write. In the end the only thing I had said about the trilogy was I liked it *facepalm*)
War of the Ancients is one of my favorites. It was my first warcraft book(mom my gave it to me for xmas because I like lore and it was on of the recommended books on a wowinsider shopping list for lore lovers). I've gone on to read many more warcraft books.
War of the Ancients pretty much cemented my love of Malfurion and Tyrande. I understand that others who are more familiar to the original Warcraft games lore find the book frustrating because of the time travel and changes that happen to history as a result. I view it much like a CoT instance.
Krasus, Rhonin and Broxigar are sent back in time to fix something that went awry in the past. Of course, unlike us they don't have a handy bronze dragon to give them a quest and tell them what to do. Eventually win the trust of some of the kaldorei despite xenophobic night elves society. Rhonin is all star struck, tempted by the well of eternity and worried about changing history. Borxigar is prosaically interested in getting the job done and beating up the burning legion. Krasus(Korielstrasza) meets his younger self and angsts over all the bad stuff that is going to happen to Alexstrasza and his inability to prevent it. You run into pretty much all the heavy hitters of night elf society that were alive back then.
The books are not deep prose and they aren't suppose to be. They are a quick read I finished the whole thing in two days. Knaak writes a light fast paced adventures with grand powers, quests and pivotal battles. Characters development is through their actions since they spend most of the book reacting to the situations.
I highly recommend the book for a fun read and have read it over a few times. That being said instead of buying it I think your friend should hit the inter-library loan on them first. I am a voracious reading and read much faster than most. For most people I think this would be a read it once, enjoy and move on sorta book.
My library network has several copies of the various war of the ancients novels. The other more recent WoW books tend to be there in larger libraries as well because they hit the NYT best seller lists.
So in short, definitely read it. If you have a limited book budget, get it from the library.
(I ended having to write this twice. When I was reviewing my first response I realize it veered off from answering your question and meandered in to a soup-box on the misuse of the terms of gary-sue and mary-sue and a frank discussion on why I think both knaak and golden are good authors for what blizzard has chosen them to write. In the end the only thing I had said about the trilogy was I liked it *facepalm*)
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