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Touted as the African Game of Thrones but its more like the African Black Company. Nice in parts, albeit too long and verbose.
This is a hard read, probably the first epic fantasy in my knowledge that treats epic as everyday. Marlon James has written a beautiful, raw, physical book that to take another reviews words doesn't really care if you understand it or not. You will want to understand, you will want to gnaw the meat from the bone. The layers upon layers built in this world with language, storytelling and the mysticism of the world will draw you in.
This book will make you work for it, and if you cut through it all ...more
This book will make you work for it, and if you cut through it all ...more
Uneven and in a bit of a shamble
Ok, to clear any misconceptions, this is not anything like Game of Thrones. While I get why marketing people would love to pitch it that way it is incredibly misleading. This book, for all intents and purposes, is a standard hero's quest, like a Grimdark Hobbit.
It is an orgy of violence, sex, and viciousness. It is difficult to like the protagonist. And all that is fine. James' prose is beautiful and fluid and yet that is not enough to stitch this tale together ...more
Ok, to clear any misconceptions, this is not anything like Game of Thrones. While I get why marketing people would love to pitch it that way it is incredibly misleading. This book, for all intents and purposes, is a standard hero's quest, like a Grimdark Hobbit.
It is an orgy of violence, sex, and viciousness. It is difficult to like the protagonist. And all that is fine. James' prose is beautiful and fluid and yet that is not enough to stitch this tale together ...more
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