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Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James

37 reviews

enterprse's review

challenging dark slow-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.5

This was a difficult book to read- I was very close to DNF-ing around 100 pages in. 

The narative style is layered and often difficult to understand- the beginning stories don't connect to the main plot until the ending third of the book. Descriptions of places and fight scenes are overly detailed and quickly become muddy, making it hard to follow exactly what's happening. 

What made this book the most difficult to read is the constant degradation of female characters and grossly unnecessary descriptions of SA and death. Both of these are constant throughout the book, and do not really serve a larger function in the narrative. 

I do want to give credit for the things I enjoyed about this book- mainly the mythological creatures and the snappy dialogue exchanges between characters.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Murder, Sexism, and Homophobia

bodiesinbooks's review

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Body horror, Rape, Slavery, Vomit, Child death, Gore, Grief, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Violence, War, Abandonment, Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Death, Death of parent, Excrement, Suicide, Torture, and Toxic friendship

f18's review

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Slavery, Infidelity, Sexual content, Gore, Cursing, Homophobia, Violence, Child death, Death, Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, and Blood

Moderate: Suicide, Vomit, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Incest, and Drug use

Minor: Torture, Confinement, Death of parent, Sexism, Cannibalism, Body horror, Suicidal thoughts, and Misogyny

misandry fgm/circumcision bestiality

ldysylvanas's review

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

This book was really rough to read. Tons of trigger warnings, and read very slow in my opinion.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Murder, and Homophobia

finn_vibing's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Child death, Death, Animal death, Slavery, Sexual violence, Violence, and Rape

Moderate: Sexism

Minor: Homophobia

aroguemonster's review

The prose and graphic nature weren't really appealing. I only kept reading because it was here, but I'm returning it to the library so I can get something else to read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Slavery, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Rape, Physical abuse, Murder, Infidelity, Homophobia, Gore, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Cursing, Child death, Child abuse, Blood, and Misogyny

myrto's review

0.5

 Fuck the gods, I hated this book. I had two main issues with this one, the writing style and the graphicness of its content.
To elaborate, I found the writing to be very convoluted and purposefully confusing. I will admit that I'm generally not good with books that are written on the more abstract side of things and therefore, I struggled greatly with following the plot. To be completely fair, I was intersted at certain points but for the most part, I kept zoning out. While it's a book with a strong fantasy element and a very rich worldbuilding I could visualise almost none of it and could hardly understand where everyone was, was going etc.
As for my other issue... Oh boy. The number of characters that haven't murdered/raped/enslaved or been murdered/raped/enslaved in this book is... zero? Apparently, this was marketed as an African Game of Thrones but in reality it makes Game of Thrones look like a bedtime story for kindergarteners. This book if filled to the brim with graphic descriptions murder, rape, gang-rape, mutilation, sex, bestiality, slavery, genitals, butts, bodily fluids and everything and anything that can be considered explicit in its content. I would argue that the vast majority of these scenes had no impact on the plot and therefore served no purpose other than to set the mood? But there are only so many rapes of underaged children that are needed for that and so many that I can stomach. And don't get me started on all the unnecessary and frankly disgusting tidbits about genitals, excrements, and scents. I kid you not, our protagonist has a nose and this entails smelling things like this:

"I did not tell her there were two different shits in this cloth, one from him and another from him pleasuring someone's ass."

Having several bits of explicit and disturbing content littered throughout your book is one thing but having several per chapter is quite another.
I think it's clear enough that I would NOT recommend this book and I would urge anyone considering reading this to look up more reviews because there are a lot of people who are far more eloquent than I am and possibly a lot with different opinions.
 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Biphobia, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Excrement, Gore, Grief, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Trafficking, Transphobia, Violence, and Xenophobia