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By: Madeleine Roux
Narrated by: Susan Wokoma
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An all-new official prequel novel to Shadowlands, the next expansion for Blizzard Entertainment's legendary online game World of Warcraft.

"The Horde is nothing!"

With those infamous words, Sylvanas Windrunner betrayed and abandoned the Horde she vowed to serve. The Dark Lady and her forces now work in the shadows as both the Horde and Alliance race to uncover her next move. Struggling to shoulder the crushing weight of leadership, King Anduin entrusts the void elf and High Exarch Turalyon to uncover Sylvanas' whereabouts. The Horde now stands at a crossroads. The various factions form a council, leaving the mantle of warchief to rest. But the threats are numerous, and the distrust runs too deep. When the council is derailed by a failed assassination attempt on Talanji - the Zandalari queen and a key ally - Thrall and the rest of the Horde leaders are forced into action. They empower the young troll shaman Zekhan, still grieving the loss of Varok Saurfang, with a critical mission to aid Talanji and help uncover the rising threat against her.

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I enjoyed listening to them while I played world of Warcraft in the background

interesting and knowledgeable

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good narrator but a poor choice sadly for this book, accents off so felt un-immersive.

Not as good as some of the past books I'm afraid

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Some great follow ons in terms of key character stories carrying on from the previous book but there are periods where not much happens. some areas of the narrative are well developed where some were lacking.

A bit slow

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A novel well worth reading if you currently play the game. I was very invested and enjoyed the book. Certain mentions and interactions of characters I didn't expect were definitely the best part.
Only negative I can think is the mispronounciation of some words by the narrator (Lich King was said as Linch King once for example) and some of her male voices kind of take me out of the story sometimes. Her female voices are absolutely excellent though, especially Talanji

Bwonsamdi is involved heavily in this book, which I absolutely loved. He's my favourite character in the Warcraft universe and the author writes him absolutely perfectly. Zappy boy gets great writing too

I've seen some people say Talanji is out of character, which I also thought at first, but the further you go, the more you realise she isn't

Shadows are definitely rising

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Another great World of Warcraft book with great narrator. I am love all the world of warcraft books they just need to add more and sort of the onces they have because some don't work yet.

WOW! (pardon the pun)

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narrator was good but the book itself could have been better, Christie golden would have been a better fit for writing this as it seems like she understands the warranty universe better.
Still worth a listen

Good but could be better

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over all good book and primer for the next xpac, a few mis pronunciations a little off putting but over all ok.

pretty good

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It promises a hunt for Sylvanas... that kinda happens... in that they look for her but it isn't really that... it's a little fleshing out of the pre-Shadowlands expansion and it's good, enjoyable, well performed (though I hate the choice for Thrall, it's like they didn't try to capture his voice at all) and well written. I enjoy all this stuff though and if WoW lore is your thing, it's more of that.

Decent take building up to Shadowlands

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big disappointment really struggled to finish. story was not even close to how good I thought it would be

big disappointment

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I really didn't enjoy this book, pace was poor and the story not gripping at all.
Struggled with the accents and didn't feel connected with the characters.

I just could not get into this.

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