Black Leopard, Red Wolf Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Book 1 - The Dark Star Trilogy

Black Leopard, Red Wolf

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Publisher Description

One of TIME’s 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time

Winner of the L.A. Times Ray Bradbury Prize 

Finalist for the 2019 National Book Award

The New York Times Bestseller

Named a Best Book of 2019 by The Wall Street Journal, TIME, NPR, GQ, Vogue, and The Washington Post

"A fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made." --Neil Gaiman

"Gripping, action-packed....The literary equivalent of a Marvel Comics universe." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

The epic novel from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings

In the stunning first novel in Marlon James's Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come together to explore what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing child. 

Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: "He has a nose," people say. Engaged to track down a mysterious boy who disappeared three years earlier, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of a group that comes together to search for the boy. The band is a hodgepodge, full of unusual characters with secrets of their own, including a shape-shifting man-animal known as Leopard.

As Tracker follows the boy's scent--from one ancient city to another; into dense forests and across deep rivers--he and the band are set upon by creatures intent on destroying them. As he struggles to survive, Tracker starts to wonder: Who, really, is this boy? Why has he been missing for so long? Why do so many people want to keep Tracker from finding him? And perhaps the most important questions of all: Who is telling the truth, and who is lying?

Drawing from African history and mythology and his own rich imagination, Marlon James has written a novel unlike anything that's come before it: a saga of breathtaking adventure that's also an ambitious, involving read. Defying categorization and full of unforgettable characters, Black Leopard, Red Wolf is both surprising and profound as it explores the fundamentals of truth, the limits of power, and our need to understand them both.

GENRE
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
RELEASED
2019
February 5
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
640
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Publishing Group
SELLER
PENGUIN GROUP USA, INC.
SIZE
9.4
MB

Customer Reviews

zenispenis ,

Trackerrrrr

What a magnificent book. I can’t believe it’s over. Definitely want to take notes in the beginning but soul found so much peace from reading this

PapaSmurfy ,

Bawalalalalalalga

My title makes as much sense as the book.

The writing style makes the book twice as confusing for the first third. Jumping around locations, words, and people you barely get to know.

The dialogue is confusing as many conversations don’t follow a normal style so you never know who’s speaking

The main character is the least likable characters I’ve ever read in fiction.

It gets better when the story gets to the main plot of the book but even that feels like it has no point.

The one positive thing is that it keeps you wondering what will happen because it follows no rules. Magic, demons, fighting. Anything can happen even if it doesn’t make any sense.

Used to hate shopping ,

Not what it sounds like.

I expected to love this because of the reviews. I absolutely could NOT get into it. And I persisted. I really wanted to like it! I can count on one hand the number of books I have started and not finished in my life. This is one of them.

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