Some of her story retells Tracker's, Rashomon-style, but much of it is her own life, one that begins with oppression and ends with a hard-won semi-freedom. The novel follows the travels and travails of Sogolon, the aforementioned Moon Witch that Tracker frequently conflicted with in his novel. As awed as I was by Tracker's story in the first book, Sogolon's tale makes this a rare sequel that is better than the first. With the sequel, Moon Witch, Spider King, James once again shattered my expectations. Unwieldy and unrelenting, it systematically dismantled everything I thought I knew about epic fantasy. Black Leopard, Red Wolf, the first book in Marlon James' Dark Star Trilogy, was one of those novels that broke my brain in the best possible way.
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