A review by booksthatburn
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James

Did not finish book. Stopped at 4%.

I’m uncomfortable with the sheer number of descriptions of things that somehow involve people’s bodies in a sexual manner even when nothing sexual is even happening. It felt like everything was couched in terms of a male/female binary. The thing that made me stop was one character’s casual description of circumcision and female genital mutilation as equivalent and positive things to do to children’s bodies. It’s possible that the overall stance of the book doesn’t condone this (authors are not their characters, after all), but I’m too distressed to read more and find out.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Sexual content, and Violence

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, and Drug abuse

CW for misogyny, drug abuse (not depicted), confinement, blood, domestic violence, violence, sexual content, child abuse (not depicted), child death (backstory), death.