Moon Witch, Spider King

Reviews / Votes

An epic fable drenched in African mythology. This is work that both meets the immersive worldbuilding standard in books by Tolkien and Martin and brings to the genre a voice unlike anything seen before . . . It sets readers up for what will undoubtedly be a superb finale * The Boston Globe * Booker winner James's African-inspired imaginary kingdoms mark the series out from the usual run of epic fantasies, but his uniquely supple, powerful style is even more distinctive * The Guardian * Black Leopard, Red Wolf and Moon Witch, Spider King are wildly inventive, genre-defining works of fiction on the level of The Lord Of The Rings and the Broken Earth trilogy that deserve to be studied, dissected, and argued over * AV Club * An exhilarating tour de force . . . [James] establishes a new vision for the trilogy as a whole and confirms Dark Star as a true epic -- John Burnside Moving, vivid, and thought-provoking . . . brilliant * Buzzfeed * James cements his status as a wildly inventive and lyrical storyteller * Financial Times * James masterfully flips the first instalment on its head . . . [A] titanic story of empire, adventure and power * Esquire * Told with James' inimitable linguistic verve . . . Riotous, ultraviolent, dazzlingly inventive * Literary Hub * A fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made, with language as powerful as Angela Carter's * Neil Gaiman * James once again shattered my expectations . . . Moon Witch, Spider King is a breathtaking book, one that functions as well as a standalone as it does a sequel . . . This is a novel that begs to be read in one sitting * NPR * Even more gripping and inventive than its predecessor . . . like Tolkien on ayahuasca * Observer * This novel's prose style, inspired by the grammar of African languages, has an intoxicating swagger and energy * Slate * James is one of the finest writers at work today, and Moon Witch, Spider King is a complex, enthralling novel. It is also utterly uncompromising, a book which the reader must meet on its own terms * Toronto Star * A fantastical epic that draws on African mythology * The New York Times * An imaginative story that advances the trilogy in a satisfying way, deepening and expanding an already epic world * Time *