Its story begins more than a century before the adventures of Wolf and Leopard - indeed, you'll want to sit down: They don't appear in this new volume for 500 pages. "Moon Witch, Spider King" is a companion rather than a sequel to the earlier book. That old woman, who insists she's not really a witch, is now the subject of the second volume of the Dark Star trilogy. Throughout their years-long search, the Red Wolf and his lover, the shapeshifting Black Leopard, work in uneasy collaboration with a buffalo, a melancholy giant and a witch named Sogolon. Much of the book - a collection of adventures oxidized by the mist of legend - describes a posse that sets off to find the lost child. In an ancient world riven by war, "Black Leopard, Red Wolf" spins a story about the search for a boy who may be the key to the kingdom's survival. The result was a genre-stretching, canon-scrambling triumph that The Washington Post called one of the top 10 books of the year. James joked that he was writing "an African 'Game of Thrones,'" but his real target was higher and older: He reanimated modern fantasy with the bones and sinews of African mythology. "Black Leopard, Red Wolf," the first volume of his Dark Star trilogy, washed into fame on a wave of blood. Three years ago, Booker Prize winner Marlon James sliced through enough carotid arteries to fill an ocean. Moon Witch, Spider King: The Dark Star Trilogy, Volume 2
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