The earliest days of Azeroth's recorded history of wars and conflicts detail the events of the War of the Ancients, which culminated in the destruction of the Well of Eternity and the Sundering of the great continent of Kalimdor. You're playing the game, you're fighting the bosses, you know the how, but do you know the why? Each week, Matthew Rossi and Anne Stickney make sure you Know Your Lore by covering the history of the story behind World of Warcraft. These instances are few and far in between though.Overall, this trilogy was an excellent audiobook experience for me and I'd absolutely recommend it to anyone who is a fan of WarCraft or anyone who wants to get into it.The World of Warcraft is an expansive universe.

The only shortcoming in Ramon's performance that I could think of is that sometimes his characters will sound like they got mixed up for just a single scene or even just a single line. I am extremely impressed with his reading and almost worry that he's set the bar so high that other readers will seem inadequate by comparison. I'm very new to the audio book experience, but I have a hard time believing that many people can top Ramon's performance. But as time went on and I realized how many different voices he had to match the personalities of characters encountered in the books, I found myself forgetting that this book was being read by a single person and started listening to it almost as an audio drama. It was so jarring and even slightly uncomfortable to hear a male voice actor suddenly start channeling a borderline convincing feminine voice, I almost disliked it at first. The first thing that caught my attention was that his depiction of female characters is actually very feminine. With every new character introduced in the story, I've grown more impressed with the scope of his voice acting, especially as the races with accents emerged. after all was said and done, I had more than my fill of scenes that describe each character's fighting style.Easily one of the greatest highlights of this trilogy is Ramon de Ocampo's performance. There are MANY scenes in this trilogy which are all essentially the same (mostly combat scenes), just with different antagonists and protagonists. Maybe it's something that couldn't be avoided, as the book explores the entire War of the Ancients and needed to give us a sense of what all the characters had been through. I'm sure there's a much better comparison out there, but I'm not well-read enough to know one.By the end of the trilogy, I've started feeling that the writing style is very repetitive in a much broader sense as well. Lovecraft's more convoluted classical style of writing, while being quite a bit easier to digest. It almost feels somewhat reminiscent of H.P. I couldn't know whether or not this was an intentional thing, but the writing style definitely does seem appropriate for the story's ancient and epic setting.

Maybe it's a dumb thing to nitpick about, but the frequency of these words definitely did sometimes distract me from the story.It could possibly be that Richard's tendency to overuse some terms is at least in part because it was meant for this trilogy to be written in a certain 'fancy' writing style. Get ready to constantly hear terms such as: materialize, 'It was all he/she could do', former, latter, visage, countenance, orbs (referring to one's eyes), scores, myriad, sinew, etc. You'll no doubt notice that certain words and terms are repeated constantly throughout this trilogy, to the point where I have to wonder if the editing process of this book was rushed. These books are no masterclass in amazing writing, but they simply don't need to be they mostly only serve to flesh out lore that you may already know with some specifics.One small nitpick I have to offer is that Richard Knaak has a very repetitive writing style. It fills in some gaps in a handful of characters' origin stories and personalities as well as the general feel of the relationships between the races of Azeroth's earlier eras. I'm writing this review for the entire trilogy rather than for individual books - The whole story is quite consistent in writing and performance.Any fan of the WarCraft universe will be able to appreciate all of the context and perspective that the War of the Ancients trilogy brings to it.

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