Black Leopard, Red Wolf is nothing like Game of Thrones. You might say that Black Leopard, Red Wolf is to Game of Thrones what Game of Thrones is to Harry Potter - but the truth is that it's operating in a different sphere.
The first book in Marlon James' Dark Star trilogy does not allow for lazy reading. It is dense, delirious, expansive, and compelling, spinning African mythology into dark, violent, embodied writing.
If you've found popular fantasy lacking, in its writing or in its conventions, this may be the book you've been waiting for: assured, capacious, adult fantasy. I still don't quite know what to make of this book, and that, I think, is exciting.
Like Neil Gaiman said: 'Black Leopard, Red Wolf is the kind of novel I never realised I was missing until I read it.'
- Jacob