Friday Friyay: 'Black Leopard Red Wolf' by Marlon James
Happy Friday! It's been my first proper week back to university so most of it was rushing to keep up with my homework and actually make it to classes on time since they're all in person now. This requires planning, which thankfully I've got down! One of the books I'm hoping to read on my commute is Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James, one of my birthday books which came highly recommended! In the first novel in Marlon James's Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come together to explore what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing child. Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: "He has a nose," people say. Engaged to track down a mysterious boy who disappeared three years earlier, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of a group that comes together to search for the boy. The band is a hodgepodge, full of unusual characters with secrets of their own, including a shape-shifti
