Jacob

Jacob's Book Review


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Ask anyone about the former name, and they will immdeitly think about the MMORPG, the lame, boring, time-useing game that has as many players equil to half the population of australlia. But thats a game, and the books that have been written about its stories are alot different. **Warcraft's War of the Ancients by Richard A. Knaak** is a 3-book fantasy trilogy that basicly has everything you could expect from a book.

War of the ancients is about 4 heroes that are sent out to look at a strange anomaly in the moutians. One of the heroes is killed in the chaotic mess and the other 3 are sent back in time 10,000 years in the past, where they must save the past so that the future can be the same. Although time-traveling has been done before in books, this trilogy atually describes the consequences if the past is changed to much, because is the past is destoryed, there will be no future.

Its long, 1,100 pages long, but the book keeps you hooked with the story which although is straight foward, the story behind each character will eventually tie in with the major plot. the book does have up-and-down parts to it, but its mostly action, and more so in the last 2 books. But there is no comedy, very few romance, and it is all in a war, hint hte name, War of the Ancients. There are no twists in the story, and everything is always predictable. this is a strenth of the trilogy, everything goes on as it should be, becsuse the heros dont want to mess up the past to bad to that the future is even worse.

Its fun to see the 3 main characters atually know whats going to happen, and warn the other people. They have faced the "Burning Leigon", an army of pure evil, already, and since they know who to watch out for, they are automaticly made the generals. Also,, one of the main characters "Seeks a glorious death in combat" who saw his best friends die to the Leigon. The others don't really care for him, since he, a long time ago, was part of the enemy's army. The description in my part is what sets this book high. The author describes every detail that there is to point out in the bood, from the Mark of Sargeras on Ilidian to the dress that Queen Azshara wears. The dialog is also good, with each character having their own personality, from the power-wanting general to the dragon queen. And the dragons arnt really as bad as tyou might think they are.

To summerize this in all, its an excellent read. But if your one of the people determend that World Of Warcraft sucks, this might not be for you. But the good thing is that theres no cheesy dialog, theres no one who takes everything on himself, and theres no one who doesn't have a personality. everybody who is named in the story counts, and has their own ambition and/or desires. I would highly recomend this to people who have played WC3 Rain of Chaos or to anyone who like fantasy books and has alot of time on their hands.