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Warcraft: The Official Movie Novelization

By: Christie Golden
Narrated by: Toby Longworth
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The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilisation faces a fearsome race of invaders: Orc warriors fleeing their dying home to colonize another.

As a portal opens to connect the two worlds, one army faces destruction, and the other faces extinction. From opposing sides, two heroes are set on a collision course that will decide the fate of their family, their people and their home.

©2016 Christie Golden (P)2016 Audible, Ltd Action & Adventure Epic Epic Fantasy Fantasy Fiction Genre Fiction Movie, TV & Video Game Tie-Ins
Great Story • Detailed Lore • Engaging Plot Twists • Warcraft Universe • Entertaining Storytelling • Decent Narration
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This is an amazing story and an amazing book but the reader makes many mistakes that need correcting. He even says “cheese” when the book reads “chicken.” He skips a couple of pages in chapter 12 and then comes back to get them causing me all kinds of confusion until I figured out what was going on!

Chapter 12 Needs Re-recording

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Where does Warcraft: The Official Movie Novelization rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

This is a really great listen, all though the reader should have taken pauses and announced chapter ends, and begins. Because what we end up with is battlefield scenes spilling over in to courtroom meeting.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Warcraft: The Official Movie Novelization?

As others have commented, the writer done a great job at adding details that were left out of the movie, even adding in moving lines of dialog for each character. But this is where he also made a mistake. Now I would normally issue a spoiler alert here but as this was not in the movie nor is it correct, I wouldn't actually call this a spoiler.

The writer added in a line of dialog, where Medivh called Garona his daughter. This is extreme incorrect. I can see where the writer might have watched the movie and got this Idea. But the fact is Garona is half-Orc, half-draenei, not half human. In fact, in the coming years, Medivh and Garona actually become lovers and he father's her child "Med'an"

So unless we have fallen in to the realm of Game of Throne incest; this line of dialog should have been fact checked before publishing.

Other than this one mistake and the lack of breaks between chapters then is a wonderful listen to any Warcraft or fantasy fan.

Great Listen, but one major Lore Flaw.

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there are surprising reveals in this book that are not covered in the movie. a must listen if you a warcraft fan.

Things in the book that's aren't in the movie.

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This book picks up after the prequel (Durotan) and pretty much follows the movie plot. However, there is a lot more time here to expand and explain things. The added time and back story helps to make the characters a bit deeper and the connection to them more real. However, despite the additional time, I did feel the story was a bit more rushed, shallow, and empty compared to the prequel. And ultimately I felt like Durotan's contribution to the story was wasted with him accomplishing very little. The narration was pretty decent and in the same style as the prequel. I've seen others complain about the accents but it didn't bother me. Overall, an entertaining story in a great game universe.

NOTE: I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review.

Good parallel to the movie

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The narrator for this book did an awesome job. Now I'm going to go see if there a book two. Can't wait to hear how it ends.

Really good storytelling and plot twist.

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The urgency and pace of movie storytelling. With depth and detail of a novel. It’s best if you can forget the actors in the movie because the casting was bad. The narrator delivers a better performance than most in the movie. I was pleasantly surprised with this.

Better than the movie

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What did you like best about this story?

I enjoyed the added details that you don't see in the movie. Lore nerds will enjoy the titles of the books that Khadgar was checking out in Karazhan, for instance.

What do you think the narrator could have done better?

The Orc accents were unnecessary. He seemed to pronounce King Llane differently every time he said it. Claine, Thane, Lilane, Hilane... it was distracting. Moro-ez? No... A little research to see how the names were supposed to be pronounced would have been nice.

Any additional comments?

There seemed to be an error in production because there were hardly any pauses between chapters. There might have been a few times where it paused and said the chapter number, otherwise one chapter bled right into the next and caused some confusion.

Flawed, but worth it.

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This explains the movie so much better than it did for itself. Great story! If you're a warcraft fan, this is a good listen.

Slightly altered for the movie but great story

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I only had a few small qualms with this book, that being, a few mispronunciations of names and places and there were a couple change of scenes with no break and you didn't realize there were changes seen until a few sentences later which was a little confusing at first. Beyond that, it was well done and would definitely recommend it.

Great book well done but

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Overall the story of the book is great. The way it was written is a bit fast paced for a book but wasn't bad. One thing to mention is that the book jumps from character to character very fast so be sure you listen closely.

Fast paced but good book

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