Black Leopard Red Wolf – Cannonball Read 17

HOLD UP. This is the first of a trilogy? Yikes. Part of me wants to know more, and part of me is just too tired.

Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James

September 10, 2019 by scootsa1000 1 Comment

I feel like a bit of a failure as a reader (well, a listener) after this experience. This was not easy. I really wanted to love this story. It was beautifully imagined and written. This story had everything: drama, action, humor, and adventure. The audiobook performance was unbelievable. The African mythology it was based upon made me want to know more. And yet, I barely made it to the end. From Amazon: Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: “He […]

Everybody please read this so I can have somebody to talk to about it.

Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1) by Marlon James

February 18, 2019 by narfna 3 Comments

NB: I received a gratis copy of the book from the publisher but that has not affected the content of my review. “You want to know what’s my purpose? To kill the men who killed my brother and father, leaving a grandfather fucking my own mother. To kill the men who killed my brother, because they killed him because he killed one of theirs. Who killed one of his, who killed one of theirs, and on and on while even gods die. My purpose is […]

Fury is a cloud that leaves my mind empty and my heart black.

Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James

February 11, 2019 by vel veeter 4 Comments

So this book is pretty wild. Something that makes me laugh about this book in general is watching a myriad set of readers try to figure out what to do here. The language is dreamy and complex and rough too. There’s long passages of narration in which a complex thought develops or a conversation happens with a kind of folk wisdom punctuated by aphorism and fable occurs. And then there will be a scene in which graphic and violent sex is described in stark realistic […]

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