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[studyinglate]

It's Cataclysm time!

And Jaina Proudmoore will be updating, but only a little.When I apped Jaina, I chose to draw her from before the end of the conflict with Arthas in Northrend, because...well I'd had a potential Arthas apper. That's pretty clearly not happening now, so oh well. If someone decides to app Arthas later things can still be played

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[tallgrassbeatin]

I hadn't actually picked up any of the WoW novels, would this be an interesting investment? (I'd be even more motivated if there is a Kindle version.)

[tallgrassbeatin]

(A quick search tells me there is one! And it's a few dollars cheaper!)

[tallgrassbeatin]

Also to stop spamming you, are any of the others worth their weight in paper?

[studyinglate]

I have pdf and epubs of Rise of the Lich King, The Shattering, and Cycle of Hatred. They are really the only three I can speak for.

None of them are literary masterpieces! They're entertaining reads if you go in expecting it to be kind of predictable, with 90 percent of the people in Azeroth being too stubborn and unreasonable to see that the orcs and humans are bridling to fight each other over no good reason at all.

...In other words, they're pretty true to the Warcraft experience.

Cycle of Hatred is a little romp in Kalimdor in which Jaina and Thrall have to try preventing another war between the Horde and Theramore, exploring how the anger between the two factions perpetuates itself over such stupid little things and how if they'd just put as much effort into getting along as they do inciting raids on each other things would be so much better.

Rise of the Lich King is Christie Golden's attempt to novelize the events involving Arthas that we've already seen in Warcraft III, plus develop a childhood for him and show people the