World of Warcraft: Shadows Rising: 3

If your a fan or the lore or a good read then give this a pass, your not missing anything, no story points, nothing of any interest happens besides bwonsamdi calling zekhan 'zappy boy'The art for the cover is good and that's the reason for the 2 starsComplete waste of money and the author has been found out to be a racist so i'll definitely be giving anything anything else she writes a miss

I've read all of the Warcraft books and this one sticks out as being lesser quality than others. I'm not sure if it is to do with the wild shake up in the senior staff at Blizzard, providing less knowledgeable support for the author or if Roux hasn't researched the characters as well as her literary peers have, but this felt like a hollow instalment in the Warcraft storyline. However, given the most recent expansion's questionable writing, I feel it actually makes this book an appropriate ending to Battle for Azeroth.I think the book tried to include too many characters and then rushed their inclusion, resulting in quantity over quality. Too many shoehorned relationships and unfaithful character portrayals, majority of the story felt like an AU fanfic. Roux states in the epilogue that she was inspired by Knaak and Golden, but perhaps she didn't have the same Blizzard contacts to support her lore expansion as they did. The old Blizzard quality is lacking here and it's a massive shame. A perfect representation of new, rushed, Blizzard.

The author is at no fault here, she has written this book very well and it is good enough to read in one sitting. Unfortunately, I found the content quite dull. The author does not solely come up with the content for Blizzard books and has done the best with what she was given, however as a player of World of Warcraft I found it to ultimately be a pointless book. I think these events could easily have been made in game and don’t really answer many questions about how the latest expansion (Battle For Azeroth) ended.Talanji seems a different character - from very grateful to the Horde and us as the Champion, to claiming we do nothing for her. If not for the Horde, her continent would be under Old God rule and other such.The display of other characters is on point and can be read with their voice in mind. Zekhan is a welcome addition but I think Rokhan could have easily filled his place.The main issue I had was nothing really gripped me about the story - I felt no need to read it in one sitting, I did it in two simply to know what happened.Nevertheless, it’s worth reading for lore but I am unlikely to read it again. I simply hope that the author gets to write out better lore books in future as her I enjoyed her writing.

Story was ok, nothing exceptional, I'm less interested in the Trolls but that is personal bias and I won't fault it for that. The quality of writing however was poor, there were grammatical errors, spelling mistakes, continuity errors, and if I didn't know the characters already they wouldn't have been easy to picture. Worth reading from a lore perspective, but it fell far short of the standard set by Before the Storm.

First of all, this is an excellent book that was very difficult to put down, I finished it in less than 24 hours and I'm not a particularly fast reader.The author delivers the story with a passion that only an avid fan of World of Warcraft could with the finesse of an exceptional story teller.She addresses key societal issues that are very much at the heart of conversation today which was a very brave move. I liked this, no I loved this and not because people are saying we have to but because it's natural. We love who we love and that came long before indoctrinated nonsense of enforced God fearing heterosexuality. However, i am conflicted on whether at times it was a bit forced. Either way, it's a message that should be heard and may hopefully help others.Lorewise, it was brilliant also. We saw the rapidly changing face of the alliance and it leads us wonderfully making us want shadowlands to be here today, just so that we can see how the story unfolds.To summarise, the author followed in giant footsteps and easily kept pace. I look forward to reading more of her work.