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World of Warcraft: War Crimes Kindle Edition

by Christie Golden (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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The national bestseller and direct tie-in to the new game expansion pack Warlords of Draenor—a thrilling novel set in the universe of the record-breaking, internationally bestselling video game World of Warcraft!

The brutal siege of Orgrimmar is over. Alliance and Horde forces have stripped Garrosh Hellscream, one of the most reviled figures on Azeroth, of his title as warchief. His thirst for conquest devastated cities, nearly tore the Horde apart, and destroyed countless lives.

Now, on the legendary continent of Pandaria, he will stand trial for his transgressions. Renowned leaders from across the world have gathered to witness this historic event. As the trial unfolds, agents of the bronze dragonflight present shocking visions of Garrosh’s atrocities. For many of those in attendance, these glimpses into history force them to relive painful memories and even question their own innocence or guilt. For others, the chilling details stoke the flames of their hatred.

Unbeknownst to anyone, shadowy forces are at work on Azeroth, threatening not only the court’s ability to mete out justice…but also the lives of everyone at the trial.

© 2015 Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Blizzard Entertainment and World of Warcraft are trademarks or registered trademarks of Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. in the US and/or other countries.

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New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Christie Golden has written more than forty novels and several short stories in the fields of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Among her many projects are over a dozen Star Trek novels and several original fantasy novels. An avid player of World of Warcraft, she has written two manga short stories and several novels in that world. Golden lives in Tennessee. She welcomes visitors to her website: ChristieGolden.com.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00GPOYEPM
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gallery Books (May 6, 2014)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 6, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 8730 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 369 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #75,465 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #128 in Role Playing & Fantasy Games
- #210 in Fantasy Gaming
- #247 in Humor & Entertainment (Kindle Store)

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Award-winning and eight-time New York Times bestselling author Christie Golden has written nearly fifty novels and several short stories in the fields of science fiction, fantasy and horror. Among her many projects are over a dozen Star Trek novels, a similar number for gaming giant Blizzard’s World of Warcraft and StarCraft novels, three books in the nine-book Star Wars series, Fate of the Jedi, which she co-wrote with Troy Denning and the late and greatly missed Aaron Allston, and the novelization of Star Wars: The Clone Wars unaired episodes, Dark Disciple, which many reviews and lists have cited as the best of the new canon novels.

2014 saw the publication of no fewer than four novels. They were the highly successful World of Warcraft novel, War Crimes; Blackbeard: The Lost Journal, a companion book to the video game “Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag”; a second Assassin’s Creed book, “Assassin’s Creed: Unity--Abstergo Employee Handbook” and The Accidental Knight, a novel set in the world of Cryptozoic’s online card game, HEX.

2015 saw only one book published, but it was a big one- her fourth Star Wars novel, Star Wars: The Clone Wars—Dark Disciple, novel featuring the popular characters Asajj Ventress and Quinlan Vos.

In 2016, Golden revisited two favorite franchises with Warcraft: Durotan, the prequel novel to the movie, Warcraft, based on Blizzard’s games, as well as the official novelization of the film itself. November 15 sees her returning to the world of Assassin’s Creed with Assassin’s Creed: Heresy, in which she introduces high-ranking Templar Simon Hathaway, who explores history at the side of Joan of Arc. Her September short story “Promises to Keep,” in the anthology Fractures, in contrast, marks her first exploration into the world of Halo

Golden launched the TSR Ravenloft line in 1991 with her first novel, the highly successful Vampire of the Mists, which introduced elven vampire Jander Sunstar. To the best of her knowledge, she is the creator of the elven vampire archetype in fantasy fiction. Several original fantasy novels include On Fire’s Wings, In Stone’s Clasp and Under Sea’s Shadow, the first three in her multi-book fantasy series “The Final Dance”. She is delighted to see her first original novels, Instrument of Fate and In Stone’s Clasp, available in an entirely new format as online books nearly fifteen years after their original publication.

Prior to her job as prolific bestselling novelist, Golden attended the University of Virginia, where she won the Clay E. Delauney Award for Playwrighting. She worked at USA Today and served as an editor at Orbit Video Magazine and The Retired Officer Magazine. She also worked as a teacher with the Writer’s Digest School, and currently accepts clients for in-depth critiquing. You can find her at christiegolden.com, on Facebook as Christie Golden, and on Twitter @ChristieGolden.

Born in Atlanta, Georgia with stints in Michigan, Virginia, Colorado, Tennessee, and Texas, Golden has returned to Virginia for a spell.

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GusGuy

The end of Mists of Pandaria - And we have Warlocks!

Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2014

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This book, like many say plays out like a court room drama but I enjoyed all of it. In my own opinion having having recently gone through Tides of War and now this book, Christie Golden is an excellent drama writer which suits this book very well. I won't place any spoilers but it does go through the dramatic events of many of the main character of the Warcraft Universe along with the atrocities that Garrosh enacted. That being said I could easily imagine people also saying it plays out almost like a flashback episode of some sitcom. If you only interested in the progression of the story line then only the last few chapters make a large impact.

I would recommend this book to a lot of people.
-My biggest group I would recommend is people new to the Warcraft Universe. The "flashbacks" reveals important events to the current game and it will help you get to know those characters. It even made me want to go back and read Wolfheart since I had skipped it.

-If you enjoy a good drama and Warcraft like my self then I'm confident it will entertain you.

People I wouldn't recommend it to:

-Those that are interested in a action pack story or a story that continues the in-game story leading up to the next expansion since they will get only a small portion of it at the end.

My criticism are simply the build up in the Sylvanas side story wasn't not to my taste but her last scene did hit me in the feels =(. I would also say action is not Christie's strongest aspect but she does pretty good job. The final battle left me with my new favorite warcry.

"And we have Warlocks!" - King Varian

and i am a freaking hordie, Tauren Druid
<3 Baine

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Thatguy

A look inside their heads

Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2014

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Warning this review will contain spoilers though I will try to keep those to a minimum, if you want to know what I think are the pros and cons without spoilers skip to the last paragraph.

All round another solid entry by Christie Golden. As anyone who has heard of this book knows this story takes place after the Siege of Orgrimmar and the trial of former Warchief of the Horde Garrosh Hellscream but it's less about the him because everyone and their mother knows that he's guilty (though one charge the forced pregnancy seems bit of a stretch to pin on Garrosh), so much so that Garrosh's defender isn't trying to argue his innocence but merely that he shouldn't be put to death. What the story IS about is how the cast namely the major players of the Alliance, Horde, and others feels about what Garrosh has done and of the revelations brought forth in the trial.

Through a magical device created by the Bronze Dragon Flight the courtroom is able to literally witness numerous historical events which were entered into evidence into the trial. Most of them pertained either directly to Garrosh's actions or the actions in his name as you would expect there were also other visions from before his time meant to provide the Pandarean and by extension any reader who is not familiar with the history of WoW a context for understanding why Orcs are viewed as a real pariah by many in the Alliance and presumably by more than a couple people in the Horde.

These visions however do more than tell a story, they also reveal secrets that only a few people knew of before they were literally shown. For example Varian learns of the aid that both Jaina and Anduin provided to Baine after his father's death in the Shattering and this lead to emotional and verbal confrontation though it was far more pronounced with Jaina given how much she and the king of Stormwind have changed since then.

Another great aspect of these visions is that it allows people who are perhaps unfamiliar with the lore of the series to have some context of what events lead to Garrosh's trial and to an extent the current state of the world as of the end of Siege of Orgrimmar.

Outside the trial is where we have the various characters interacting with one another which helps drive the drama of the trial the revelations further. The most prominent of these interactions would have to be between Prince Anduin and Garrosh along with the long awaited reunion of the Windrunner sisters.

The interactions between Anduin and Garrosh are particularly intriguing as they question one another with the former trying to figure out what makes the latter tick and to make him feel some semblance of regret for what he has done and what has happened. Garrosh responds by trying to tear down Anduin's idealism and what he conceives as the "self righteousness" of the Alliance as a whole. These conversations along with his interactions with other characters such as Wrathion help drive his character development, by story's end he seems to have maintained his noble spirit and his idealism acknowledged that faith alone will not be enough, sometimes decisive action is required.

On another note the Windrunner sisters began to concoct a plan to kill the former Warchief and form a bond as sisters who both despise Garrosh. Ultimately it leads Vereesa to make a choice which has profound consequences not just for the sisters but for others as well. All round it was a beautiful and tragic tale between them but there was one problem I found with this side story. Namely what was the source of Sylvanas' hatred for Garrosh? For Vereesa it was simple, her husband died in Theramoore trying to contain the mana bomb he dropped on the city. But for Sylvanas it wasn't very clear why she suddenly had a hatred for her former warchief which she had previously only shown towards her former master Arthas. This is one aspect of the story that could definitely have been fleshed out more.

Although a good read and well worth checking out, War Crimes suffers from one major flaw in my mind and that is it is too short and the quality suffers as a result. While I was reading through it I often found myself wanting to know more about the characters who appeared.

For example we know from the Siege of Orgrimmar that Varian wants the peace between the Alliance and Horde to hold (while taking steps in the event this contingency fails) but what are his feelings towards the current Horde and its leaders? The fact he was able to have polite conversations with Go'el shows hes much calmer (for instance he doesn't assume all orcs are evil) than the last time they met in the Undercity but it would have been nice to have learned more about what they think about each other.

In spite of being named Warchief Vol'jin surprisingly did not have as much of a presence in this novel as I expected. I wanted to know more about how hes coping with his new responsibilities and how he feels about the chances of the peace with the Alliance to last and what his views of its leaders (aside from Jaina which was reveled). The Horde is in a very delicate state following his rebellion the actions he makes will have a profound impact not just on the faction, but the world as a whole.

Speaking of Go'el it would have been nice to maybe have learned more about how he and the orcs who fought alongside Vol'jin felt not just about how badly Garrosh went wrong, but about the fact that in spite of his actions so many of their brethren fought tooth and nail for him despite the fact that it was clear that Garrosh intended for the orcs to either butcher or enslave all other forms of sentient life on Azeroth. This of course is even worse than what they did during the First and Second Wars because unlike those conflicts they cannot blame anything on corruption brought about by demonic blood, what they did, they did of their own free will.

The biggest disappointment for me personally was how little attention was paid to Aysa Cloudsinger (who appeared briefly) and Ji Firepaw (who was mentioned in passing). After playing through the Pandarean starting zone I came to really like both of these characters and their personalities and was wanting to learn more about their stories which after the starting zone had been limited to Aysa rescuing Ji after he had been tortured during the Siege of Orgrimmar saying "we can go back to the turtle, we can be together now." There were so many avenues for both characters that could have been explored but weren't such as what were their experiences like after joining the Alliance and Horde? How do they feel about the leaders of their respective factions and the other's faction? How do they view themselves and each other after serving in their factions? It wasn't even made especially clear if they were still part of the Alliance and Horde and just how they feel about their decision to stay or leave (my understanding is they left but it wasn't very clear). Whatever the case hopefully we'll see more of them in the future.

I know it would be difficult if not impossible to explore all those avenues in one book, but given the fact that the finished product is only 352 pages long I can't help but feel it should have been possible to hit at least one or two of them especially since Warlords of Draenor does not even have a release date scheduled yet (to my knowldge). Particularly the Aysa and Ji bit because War Crimes (like Tides of War before it) is meant to serve as a transition from Mists of Pandaria to Warlords of Draenor and at the moment those two are effectively the faces of the Pandarean who joined and subsequently fought for the Alliance and Horde.

So bottom line, an all round well written book. Very beginner friendly from a lore perspective, shows some excellent drama and emotional turmoil for a wide cast of characters. Unfortunately it is a rather short read which left me feeling it could use some more meat on its bones and some of what was there could have used more polish. Still a solid read, Christe Golden is a very talented writer though I believe she can do better than this, so I give War Crimes four out of five stars.

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Thilix

Golden has hit Gold again.

Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2014

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Golden has to be my favorite World of Warcraft writer to date. I've followed her in other genre's and she always seems to strike gold when she does write for them. I loved the Arthas book and I eagerly snatched this book up once it came out.

The depth of the characters in this book are absolutely amazing. I've been playing WoW since right after Vanilla dropped and so I've spent the last ten years(almost) playing and watching the story evolve around the faction leaders of the Horde and Alliance. The creators of WoW do a good job, but they've struck amazing talent in Golden writing for them. The review is so very difficult to write without giving any spoilers but needless to say the depth she gives every single faction leader is amazing.

After the finish of the Siege of Orgrimmar is when the story picks up. Everything has been moved to Pandaria for the trial, a new technology/magic is being used to assist in the trial which really gives Golden an opportunity to explore certain parts of the past and bring things to light. One of the best things about this book is that it doesn't follow the standard court approach that we all see during the reruns of Law and Order(or any other justice based series). Golden took some of the standard court aspects but also really created her own idea of how the Pandarians would have a court system.

The read a good solid read and I ended up reading it in a couple of days just because I wanted to spread it out. I could have easily finished it in one sitting though if I hadn't forced myself to stop reading to take breaks. If you're a fan of the game at all I highly recommend picking up the book and reading it. Especially with Warlords just a few months away from its release date.

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ralph

Muy buen libro

Reviewed in Mexico on March 29, 2017

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A pesar de no ser un libro con demasiada acción y utilizar personajes que estaríamos acostumbrados a ver en situaciones más bélicas y dinámicas, es un libro que nos muestra otra cara y otra faceta de Azeroth y nos hace reflexionar sobre las consecuencias y acciones en el mundo de World of Warcraft después de que ocurren la grandes batallas o suceden los grandes eventos, muestra un lado más real de los personajes.

Como siempre la autora logra conseguir que la redacción sea fluida y la trama no se vuelva tediosa de seguir, una vez que comienzas la lectura no puedes parar una pagina te intriga y te obliga a leer la siguiente, hasta ahora todos los libros de Warcraft que he leído de la autora nunca me han decepcionado.

En conclusión es un libro altamente recomendable.

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Filipe Lima

The best one to start

Reviewed in Brazil on May 29, 2014

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War Crimes is one of the greatest World of Warcraft books for it has some of the most remarkable moments in the story of Warcraft described with huge details. I strongly recommend this book for those who want to start with the expanded universe of books from World of Warcraft because it's a prequel for the next-expansion and because it has a short version of the story of Warcraft.

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V

A must read for anyone interested in WoW Lore

Reviewed in Canada on May 25, 2014

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An overall satisfying novel that has an ending that you can agree with. The story is also able to use flashbacks extremely well that summarize many other novels set in WoW.

Pros:
- Awesome character development
- Good summaries for previous novels
- Satisfying lead/tie in with the source material

Cons:
- Might be not for those not interested in WoW at all.
- Ending seems rushed during a span of a few pages, improves after said pages

Hector

Reviewed in Spain on November 7, 2014

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Me ha gustado mucho. Aunque aviso que si habéis seguido la historia recopila bastantes cosas de libros pasados. Christie Golden cumple como siempre.

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francesco rizzoli

Tutto ottimo - Perfect

Reviewed in Italy on June 22, 2014

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Tutto nei tempi e nei modi (imballaggio, qualità del prodotto, etc.) concordati, un ottimo venditore che consiglio a chi ancora come me apprezza i libri cartacei, magari in lingua originale!

Everything as agreeg (package, product quality and characteristics, etc.), a very good seller that provides to old-paper-books fans like me their favourite product, also in original language!

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