I finally got around to reading Dune and I kind of wish I had someone to tell me what exactly I’m supposed to love about this book, because I was just kind of “meh” about it. I mean, there were occasional bits where I’m like “hmm, that’s clever” but nothing like “Wow! This is an amazing and unique work of speculative fiction!”

On the other hand, I set my standards pretty low for the next book I read, Christie Golden’s Lord of the Clans. This is a novel about Thrall from World of Warcraft, and it covers his early life as a slave gladiator, his escape from Durnholde, initial meetings with Grom Hellscream, Drek’thar, and Orgrim Doomhammer, and the forging of the new Horde. I don’t usually read tie-ins like this, but I have a massive crush on Thrall. I want to have his little green babies.

At any rate, I enjoyed Lord of the Clans. I would say it exceeded my expetcations. People who don’t have crushes on Thrall and haven’t run Old Hillsbrad just to see him in his youth could still enjoy it if they like fantasy. I’d classify it as young adult fantasy, and for that genre it’s pretty good.

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