She’s talent-challenged.
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thats cause it didnt really have one. just poof all of a sudden they in love.
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Because a good 95% of game related books are awful cash grabs with little to no redeeming qualities. It’s not just a wow thing
whats wrong with her i cant find anything. am NOT using reddit.
You ask too much. Difficulty level is always set to high.
Her writing relies on far too many writing cliches for me to personally enjoy it.
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It’s less her writin’ and more her way o’ dealin’ with backlash when Blizzard makes lore decisions that contradict her writin’ (plus, tha fact that tha last backlash against her I heard of was in regards tae Sylvanas…well, people were very sick o’ Sylvanas “Main Character” Windrunner by then). Golden wrote Lord o’ tha Clans and Rise o’ tha Horde, which I enjoy.
I also enjoy Aaron Rosenburg, who wrote tha novelizations o’ Tides o’ Darkness and Beyond tha Dark Portal.
I’ll say he’s probably one o’ tha most overhyped authors whose work I’ve read. Which makes peoples attempts tae mimic him post-Game o’ Thrones (HBO Series) all tha more cringe tae me.
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I really like her books.
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Not giving a single direct dollar to “I will never serve.”
lmao.
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Knaak has interesting Plots to say the least.
Of course he inserts his Characters into his Novels as much as possible giving them important roles even if they aren’t the Protagonists until Wolfheart which had none of his Characters as far as I’m aware of.
He gave Rhonin the role of mentor to Illidan and Krasus the role of mentor to Malfurion.
3 out of 5 of the old Dragon Aspects(Ysera, Malygos and Nozdormu) along with one of the replacement Aspects(Kalecgos) are his creation as is the Emerald Dream and Caverns of Time.
He also hypes the Protagonists quite a lot of times with said feats being:
- Malfurion consistently unleashes humongous rainstorms that can reach across the entire Planet in all works he appears in under Knaak’s writing.
- Anveena is an entire Well of Arcane Energy first created by having a Vial of Liquid Arcane dumped on a Leyline Nexus then given a Human Form by Krasus.
- Rhonin tames a pack of Raptors.
- Varian is the chosen champion of Goldrinn(incidentally the WoW Comic hinted at that first).
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The main problem with Richard Knaak was that his writing felt more about him living a fantasy rather than telling a story.
It also was creepy. I’m sorry to say it but the man is creepy in his writing. He would introduce his own characters so they could have either emotional relations or influence over Warcraft characters. He didn’t care about the Warcraft story: It was about Richard’s story and how Richard influenced Warcraft.
The fact he invented a third Windrunner sister just to have her marry him and have his babies is wrong on so many levels….
Creepy
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what about as a painter?
hey, I liked Doom Brigade, and Draconian Legion.
Golden writes in a style that sometimes is too cute by half. Before the Storm was chock full of it. She wrote a scene where Genn reacts like some Scooby Doo cartoon, with his tail being a part of his reaction. Except… the Playable Worgen on the Alliance - including Genn - do not have tails. She just had a goofy image in her head and went with it.
I liked Stackpole’s Shadows of the Horde. It had a pretty cool friendship between Tyrathan Khort and Voljin. The fighting and action was done pretty well, not overly tedious like it can be some times. It has pretty interesting Troll background lore. It had a more serious tone.
I also enjoyed Shadows Rising, but Madeline Roux gets a lot of flak because of her IRL social media posts. I am a fan, though. I really enjoyed Sira - she is a hoot.
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Pretty much she isn’t an epic fantasy writer. She makes nice emotional pieces but for me just doesn’t translate well when speaking of warfare. She’s too nice and too subtle in many ways. I still like her Goblin/Gnome story in he Before the Storm preface I think that’s probably one of her best bit.
I like the exaggeration of epic that Richard Knack used in the Day of the Dragon/Well of Eternity series. I think that fits more what I like from fantasy. I preferred his style over any other writers for Warcraft.
I don’t know I rather have his living fantasy style than most of what we got offered. I think Danuser cases with Sylvanas is way worse than anything Knack might have done. I think the story of Rhonin was pretty cool and stories of Half-elves are few to count in Warcraft so I thought that was quite original to talk about Rhonin having a family with an elf. Probably one of the only story that talks about the representation of elves in the human society of wow.
I think Golden can write good fantasy books I just prefer more epic fantasy focused.
Authors like David Gemmel or Raymond E. Feist are good examples of what I like.
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The only thing by him I’ve read is the last few books of The Wheel of Time. I’m not going to say I hated them but going from Jordan to Sanderson was…jarring I guess.
Shame Jordan passed before he was able to finish WoT.
Haters gonna hate
I really,turned off on these technical term readings like Hegel :The phenomenology of spirit, where Latin ,Greek are used to explain the most simple explanation ,egh.
I was never on his hype train (“omg he’s the best ever!”) or hate train (“I’m going to hate him because he’s popular”), I just thought he was pretty good. Until recently. I’ve started to really dislike him.
For one thing he’s jerk. I used to read his blog but I had to stop because I could not stand his views on almost every thing, including how he regards his fans.
Then there’s the fact I don’t like what he did to Dany. Show got their basic ideas from him. She started off as this little girl that broke the glass ceiling, was a champion of the down trodden, breaker of chains, etc. etc. and all that turned out to be for nothing as we once again needed to be saved by a man. A whiny, oath-breaking man. Thanks GRRM.
And last but not least, you know he’s rewriting the last two books because of how much everyone hated season 8. He ignored the books because he wanted to be a screen writer again but now that that went to bunk, he’s going to scramble to fix his massive screw ups, which means we’ll see Winds of Winter in 2030. Maybe.
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I’m easy to please with books if it’s on a topic I already like.
I’ve liked Golden’s books. I think she’s gotten more flak since she officially got hired on to Blizzard’s story team, because she became someone to point a finger to when players don’t like what’s happening in the game, rather than solely doing the novels sometimes.
I’ve also liked Knaack. But he gets really silly sometimes, so I totally get why people might consider his work to be “bad”.
Yeah…but he abandoned the books when he made his bank on the TV show. 
They will never get finished as promised. The 5th book came out 11 years ago. The plan was to release book #6 ,nine years ago. And book 7 was supposed to be 2 years after that, 7 years ago.
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