Warcraft: The Official Movie Novelization

By: Christie Golden

Narrated by: Toby Longworth

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

Great Listen, but one major Lore Flaw.

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.

Chapter 12 Needs Re-recording

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!

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

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

Good parallel to the movie

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.

Really good storytelling and plot twist.

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.