Review: Stormrage

Stormrage by Richard A. Knaak
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I play World of Warcraft and with Shadowlands coming out soon, I am working on reading more of the lore of the Warcraft Universe. I did a chunk before Legion, but I am still behind (clearly). Yes, I am one of the nerdy people with a chronological check list. I am focusing more on the novels than the comics, manga, and short stories at the moment. It's somewhat difficult to read them on a Kindle Paperwhite.

I had a hard time getting through this one. It felt like it would never end. I have read other Knaak books and enjoyed them immensely (Zayl and Humbart, anyone?), but this was not his best. By the end of the book I was starting to cringe with the overuse of 3 words: knew, understood, and aware.
Every other paragraph had some of variation of "character immediately understood" or "character knew the source."

I am not a writer nor an expert in grammar, so most of the time I am not even aware of sentence structure or bad writing. All I ask for is a fun story that can take me out of reality for a while. Unfortunately, those sentence variations were so over used that I felt as though the same sentence (or its variation) was copy and pasted every few sentences. By the end of the book I was almost skimming paragraphs just to end the repetition.

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