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# World of Warcraft: Arthas: Rise of the Lich King Mass Market Paperback – Illustrated, January 26, 2010

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- **What is this?** World of Warcraft: Arthas: Rise of the Lich King Mass Market Paperback – Illustrated, January 26, 2010 by christie golden
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Lovely tragic story!
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2022*

If you played Warcraft III or Wrath of the Lich King expansion. You will love this book. It goes into details about Arthas and Jaina's childhood and their deep affection for each other before Arthas was turned into the Lich King. There were other important characters in the story as well you will recognize if you follow the lore.  This book will walk you all the way up until the Start of Wrath of the Lich King expansion! Very much enjoyed it! This has got me hyped to play the upcoming Classic WOTLK expansion coming out Sep 26, 2022! Can't wait to make my DK again!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A pleasant diversion.
  

*by E***H on Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2016*

I've been playing Warcraft since before it was a MMORPG. Normally I avoid reading books like these though I thought I'd make an exception, as I loved the Wrath of the Lich King content. Christie Golden's novel sort of lets us all peek under the hood, see what happened to Arthas to make him who he is. We see this happen through the campaigns in Warcraft III, but reading it is very different. It also shows us how some of the other characters came to be who they are as we know them in World of Warcraft, as well as in the end of WCIII.I primarily read it during work breaks, but I would read it again. Golden knows how to turn a phrase, and was a great choice to author a book like this.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A good attempt at a hard task
  

*by A***M on Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2011*

First off I think Christie Golden has a lot of heart to take on the Arthas story in novel form. Being very recent history in Warcraft Lore there exists a great deal of source material. Despite only covering a few years the time of the Third War has the greatest number of events and details about those events in all of Warcraft. Short of splitting each of the three "acts" of the book into its own separate novel like the War of the Ancients Trilogy I don't think there was a possible way to bring the story together without having to skip events or be slightly fuzzy with some of the facts. I think she did a great job within the limits of what she had though.Minor Spoilers only, hopefully.  The book is split into his childhood, his manhood, and his time as the Lich King before the end of the second expansion of WoW. The material on the First and Second War are few at best. The author assumes you already know the events of these wars and only offers snippets related to Arthas which I don't think is a bad thing. *Reading 'The Last Guardian' through 'Tides of Darkness' helps by the way* The relationship between him and Jaina Proudmoore is given much more import and detail than in previous material.Sadly, when the story progresses to the events of the Third War just short of half way in it there is a struggle to fit everything in and people will be disappointed that a character or event they really liked and thought was important was only given 2 pages of material in the book. It turns into a cliff notes version of Warcraft 3.That being said, I think Christie is one of the best writers they tap for these novels. Her writing is fun to read and respects the source material. She specifically excels at building a believable character and conflict, her stories involving the Horde are great. She does a good job at trying to give Arthas a personality and humanity you can understand. He severely lacked this in the source games where his transition from Prince to Lich King wasn't very believable and didn't give you a reason to like him very much before he turned.

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