Thrall: Twilight of the Aspects discounted for preorder on Amazon
by Mathew McCurley 
Jul 11th 2011 at 8:00PM
The first Cataclysm novel by Golden, The Shattering, told the prequel story of the newest expansion. Garrosh's rise to power and duel with Cairne, as well as Anduin Wrynn's involvement with the dwarven civil war, took center stage, while Thrall left leadership of the Horde to train as a shaman on the orcish home world of Draenor.
Thrall: Twilight of the Aspects, continues Thrall's journey as a pivotal personality as the cataclysm and Deathwing ravage Azeroth. Thrall's journey will begin with a task for Ysera that eventually becomes fraught with green dragons, nightmares, and a bleak vision from Ysera herself, the Hour of Twilight. We will know more in a week, and I couldn't be more excited.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
Pyre Jul 11th 2011 8:06PM
Barnes & Noble has the same pricing, for those with a Nook: http://bit.ly/plh6A1
Donhorn Jul 12th 2011 12:01AM
Nice! A reason to finally get the free Nook app set up on my Android phone! Just went and pre-ordered it, and picked up The Shattering too since I hadn't read it (or admittedly any of the books) yet. Something to do while servers are down! :D
Izo Jul 12th 2011 4:32AM
Thank you for your reply. I ALMOST had the urge to stop reading this website because of Mr. McCurley post here.
jongarcia89 Jul 11th 2011 8:07PM
wolfheart is also discounted
Jonsi Jul 11th 2011 8:08PM
When does this take place in the lore?
Lucidique Jul 11th 2011 8:34PM
This is all new lore.
David Jul 11th 2011 9:01PM
I am guessing at what point we are atm. With it so conveniently scheduled I can hazard a guess that this happens after the quest chain centered around him in 4.2.
jeffbr Jul 11th 2011 9:20PM
Golden: Now. You're looking at now, Jonsi. Everything that happens now, is happening now.
Jonsi: What happened to then?
Golden: We passed then.
Jonsi: When?
Golden: Just now. We're at now, now.
Jonsi: Go back to then.
Golden: When?
Jonsi: Now.
Golden: Now?
Jonsi: Now.
Golden: I can't.
Jonsi: Why?
Golden: We missed it.
Jonsi: When?
Golden: Just now.
Jonsi: When will then be now?
Golden: Soon.
Jonsi: How soon?
Golden: /facepalm
MattLP Jul 12th 2011 8:19AM
Damn it jeff, now i have to go watch that movie again
Velek Jul 11th 2011 8:28PM
Books-A-Million already has this out and on the shelves. Saw it there yesterday.
Agony Jul 11th 2011 11:49PM
Then they broke the "street date" and will most likely receive a rather stiff fine.
AudreyR Jul 11th 2011 8:16PM
YAY! New Christie Golden book! *does happy dance*
ukdude Jul 11th 2011 8:24PM
Dangit Blizzard, you might actually make me both purchase AND read a book! (giftpurchases happen all the time)
razion Jul 11th 2011 8:25PM
Christie Golden has yet to disappoint, I hope they keep having her make more and more of the books, she's my favorite author they have!
MusedMoose Jul 11th 2011 9:10PM
Seconded. I enjoyed "Arthas", but I loved "Lord of the Clans"; I'm currently reading "Rise of the Horde" as part of a mega-tome of WoW books I got for cheap when my local Borders was going out of business. @_@ But "Rise" is awesome, great orcish and draenei lore, and Ms. Golden works the in-game things into the world very well.
Samuel Jul 11th 2011 10:34PM
@Mused:
She should, considering that several lore elements in the book were created by Golden, and then Blizzard loved them so much they decided to give her the okay, make them canon, and work them into TBC.
Dril Jul 12th 2011 5:21AM
@Mused:
I agree her earlier work was good, but Arthas was...lacking. Especially after he grew up, I honestly would've been better off reading a plot summary of Warcraft 3 (and TFT) rather than the novel.
Really, the best bit of Arthas was the new stuff about him being young. Everything else was just the game's story with a bit more waffle.
I'll be really sad if Thrall is like that, but we'll see. I'll probably buy it just to pledge my support for her rather than Knaak.
Kylenne Jul 12th 2011 12:21PM
@Dril: I'm with you, I really don't understand people's love affair with the Arthas novel. Maybe Night of the Dragon left such a bad taste in people's mouths that anything looked amazing in comparison? In addition to being little more than a quick rehash of WC3, I also took issue with the pointless retconning and some of Golden's characterization choices (her portrayal of the Kael/Arthas/Jaina triangle and Kael in general was Knaakian levels of awful, but I did like his banter with Arthas despite the pointlessness of that duel). I was hugely disappointed by that book for the most part.
The Shattering was Golden back to form, imo, but for the from-left-field/largely off-screen development of Thrall and Aggra's relationship. Thing is, I'm going to blame her editors for that. The biggest problem with this one (and the Arthas novel, the DK manga, and most of the halfway decent WC extended universe works) is they always feel really rushed. You can almost feel the invisible hand shoving the author along so the story comes in under a certain page count acceptable to the bean counters. Every novel doesn't have to be the size of Half-Blood Prince or anything, but sometimes you just need time to tell a story properly.
Tri Jul 11th 2011 8:33PM
OOoohhhhh I thought it wasn't till august :O
/runs off to Amazon !!!
I have loved all of Christie's books so much, so looking forward to this one :D
Amaxe Jul 11th 2011 9:12PM
I guess this says how burnt out I am on the game that I did not go right over and preorder it when I got the announcement from Amazon.
The best I could manage was a MST3K cheer:
Joel: And the Crowd goes wild,
All (flatly): Yaay.
Not a slam against Golden or the people who are excited though. Just saying I'm burnt out.