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A review by rivareads
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
2.0
I had such high hopes for this book from ready the first 20 pages, only to realise this is well written.
I really didn’t enjoy this book and almost didn’t finish. I enjoyed the story but the way it is written, along with the dialogues really threw me off. The plot has a lot of wasted potential because taps into a very diverse location and it is infused with elements of African mythology. The story is violent and gory, ripe with sexual violence mentions and murder. However, the plot goes nowhere fast and stays there, and the reader is left with something that doesn’t really make sense most of the time.
The characters are hardly interesting, which is not helped by the fact they constantly speak in riddles or omitting important pieces of information. I get it, it’s fantasy, but that doesn't mean everyone has to be very smartly mysterious all the time. It’s infuriating because doesn’t allow the reader to understand the plot.
An attempt was made at writing fantasy and it failed. Miserably.
I really didn’t enjoy this book and almost didn’t finish. I enjoyed the story but the way it is written, along with the dialogues really threw me off. The plot has a lot of wasted potential because taps into a very diverse location and it is infused with elements of African mythology. The story is violent and gory, ripe with sexual violence mentions and murder. However, the plot goes nowhere fast and stays there, and the reader is left with something that doesn’t really make sense most of the time.
The characters are hardly interesting, which is not helped by the fact they constantly speak in riddles or omitting important pieces of information. I get it, it’s fantasy, but that doesn't mean everyone has to be very smartly mysterious all the time. It’s infuriating because doesn’t allow the reader to understand the plot.
An attempt was made at writing fantasy and it failed. Miserably.