Who tells the third, James gleefully declares, is a secret.
The second, which he’s currently plotting, will follow a witch from the first book. The next two books in the Dark Star Trilogy will tell the same story from other perspectives. “When I throw the reader into the deep end, I just have this faith they’re going to find their way back.” His new novel has more than 80 and often leaves the reader with half a thought to carry through pages and pages before finally uniting it with its other half. A Brief History had more than 70 characters, and many spoke in Jamaican patois. James himself acknowledges that his books can be challenging. He’s deeply flawed-brash, violent and distrustful of love - and brings those qualities with him as joins a crew set on finding a mysterious missing child.Īt 620 pages, Black Leopard is an ambitious undertaking, even for readers used to Martin’s dense prose and meandering storytelling.
Tracker, the protagonist, is a man whose sense of smell reveals the whereabouts and recent deeds of those he encounters.
There’s no Jon Snow in the world James created: “I wasn’t trying to write some noble warrior walking through the bush,” he says. Jemisin, whose works push back against stereotypes about the types of figures who “should” appear in fantasy fiction. And it joins the ranks of those by authors like Tomi Adeyemi and N.K. James says he even “cheated” - his word - and studied how Martin crafts violent sequences with mythical creatures.īut James’ book is set in a distant-past Africa and filled with queer characters of color inspired by the continent’s history and mythology. It turns out that James’ new epic, Black Leopard, Red Wolf, which hits shelves today and kicks off a trilogy, does resemble Martin’s series, in a few key ways: each features warring royals, deadly beasts and plenty of graphic sex scenes and bloody battles.
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