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Shadows Rising

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Shadows Rising

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, including her own sister, Alleria, 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’s whereabouts.

The Horde now stands at a crossroads. The various factions form a council, leaving the mantle of warchief to rest. Thrall, Lor’themar Theron, Baine Bloodhoof, First Arcanist Thalyssra, and many other familiar faces rise to this new challenge. 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.

Meanwhile, Nathanos Blightcaller and Sira Moonwarden have been tasked by the Dark Lady with a terrifying gambit: to kill the troll loa of death himself, Bwonsamdi.

As Zekhan and Talanji work to save Bwonsamdi, their journey will be a key turning point in bolstering the Horde against the coming darkness and finding themselves along the way. Failure to save their allies and the trickster god will surely doom them—but through success, they may rediscover what makes the Horde strong. Action & Adventure Epic Fantasy
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Great audiobook but needs the character's voice actors ... splendid job from the narrator though !

great audiobook and great performance

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Apparently the narrator is Susan Wokoma, voice actress for Talanji in the game, I have nothing against a woman reading a book where it's a majority of male characters talking, but she has a british accent, and it's a problem to pronounce the name of many characters in this Fantasy setting. What shocked me the most was "Thrall" becoming "Twau~ll". And she's giving it a little too hard at points, it's kinda cringe.
As of the story, a lot of Zechan (Zappy boi), that's nice, a little more about Turalyon and Aleria, and as of all, it seems to follow the events near end BfA. I'm halfway through the book and no mention of N'zoth or Azshara. Talking a lot about the book pre-BfA "Before the Storm", and the Siege on Dazar'alor. So I'm not sure what much it brings lore-wise, outside of what we knew without the book.

Good story as usual, wrong Narrator

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The story is good, I liked it at least.

But the performance was absolutely terrible.

I'm also concerned by the fact that the rating of the audio book doesn't seem to reflect the average rating in the comments.

The book rating is weirdly innacurate.

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