Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy #1)

One sentence synopsis.... This book was pitched to me as Game of Throne set in Wakanda... sounds dope, right? Nope.

Read it if you like... just don't. These 640 pages represent so many hours of my life I'll never get back. James' previous book was one of my favourites so I admit to having high expectations, but between the misogyny, pedophilia, rape, incest, unnecessary violence and vulgarity... this book was brutal, offensive, and worst of all managed to be all those things but also SUPER boring.

Dream casting... Michael B. Jordan has the film rights, which is another reason I was excited to read it. Now I'm just praying that the adaptation departs as far as possible from the text.