I've heard there's a lot of lore-ic information in it, so if you're a World of Warcraft fan I guess it's an interesting read. Overall I'm glad I read it, if only for more lore regarding Lich Kings.

The paperback copy I have has a simple yet extremely usefull map at the front and a cardboard page in the middle with two neat illustrations of Arthas.

At some points I lost interest in the story, but the above average, though not phenomenal, language with sneaky alliteration and a nice flow for reading made me go on. Storywise it is 'original', but the flow often feels a little to fast, but then again if you try to fit the entire backstory in one 400 page book things have to be sacrificed. This wasn't a big problem, there were some names of creatures I googled to get an idea of how they looked, and there are plenty details in the writing explaining and implying things and adding to the worldbuilding without explicitly stating said things. Going in I knew nothing about the WoW lore or universe, I somewhat knew at the back of my mind about orcs being bad and that this book was based on the Wrath of the Lich King expansion. Also, apologies if this review is kinda atrocious, it's the first one I've written.Īs for the no spoilers part, I discuss next to no plot points since even a generic outline of the story counts as spoiler for me. I picked up this book because I'm slightly obsessed by Lich Kings due to one of my favourite bands (Lich King), and I've always wanted to read a WoW book just to get a feeling of the quality of those books (similar to why I read a Warhammer and a Forgotten Realms book).

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