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• Marvelous sweet and spicy savage fairytale

  I don't even know where to start for this original and very creative work. The friendship that is described in this book, the free and non-possessive relation that bound the main characters is just so real. The imaginary world that the autor created in this book is extraordinarly mindblowing. Of course it is a tale for adult but one that will leave you speechless. I love it and recommend it for anyone who wanna enjoy an exceptionally well writen book.

• This is the best thing I've read in a while, but it's worthwhile to know that it's coming from a 'literary' author rather than someone who typically writes genre fantasy. The writing style can be dense, although I enjoyed the way it made me think about what the narrator (who is also the main character) is saying and not saying. It definitely qualifies as dark fantasy, sometimes bordering on horror, and if you're looking for happy endings, you'll want to stop before the last story the narrator tells. But it is beautiful. It's fantasy rooted in African folklore and history, in the way Tolkien rooted LOTR in European folklore and history. It's sensory-rich and visceral, not flinching away from sex, dirt or what happens when carcasses sit around in the sun for too long. If you wish your fantasy addressed the issue of where the adventurers go to the bathroom, you'll find it here. I guess you could call it coarse, but I appreciated it for the way it rooted this fantasy world into an experience of body and earth that felt like a place people might really live. For those of us who're used to Western-centered fantasy worlds, I think that helps make the story feel more familiar and grounded as we seek our footing among unfamiliar creatures, cultures and storytelling turns. The main character, Tracker, is a mess of a man, struggling with his own damage and issues and sometimes taking them out on the people around him, as he works through who he wants to be in the middle of pursuing a wreck of a quest, which keeps getting dragged off-goal by the agendas of the other people he's with. Tracker works pretty hard to push away sympathy, but despite his best efforts, I found myself caring for him as a man who's afraid of what might happen if he lets himself care for others. I started rooting for him every time he could bring himself to connect with somebody. In his defense, most of the characters surrounding him don't exactly offer themselves up as compelling candidates for friendship, but they are pretty fascinating. This is the first book of a series. It seems to hold the entirety of Tracker's story arc, and then from what the author says, the other two books may follow a couple of other characters through their own arcs and adventures as they followed the same quest. Through Tracker's POV, we get glimpses into the interior lives of the other characters, which hint at their own goals, needs and personal struggles, and I'm pretty curious to know more about them--and also to see what Tracker looks like from the outside.

• El libro en sí es increíble. Lamentablemente venía lastimado de la parte inferior. Sin duda alguna una joya literaria de fantasía contemporánea

• メディアを読み込めませんでした。 I got addicted to reading it, I read it twice lol, but it depends on if you likes this genre. I love the author's writing style, it's simple still engaging and character has their own voice and tone, turning dialogue more dynamic and sadistic, love it.

• This is a book I struggled a lot with initially. I love James' A Brief History of Seven Killings (which isn't the easiest book in the world to read), but the prose style and structure here, where our imprisoned narrator Tracker is telling his story to an unnamed interrogator for unknown reasons, takes a good while to get used to, especially as his tales are told in a seemingly random order. I just couldn't tell what was going on, or why. I was ready to give up. But after about 100 pages (which I realise is far too long for most people), everything started to click into place. The prose started to flow beautifully, an actual story began to take shape, and I started to really care for these characters. After that, the book is a blast, and just keeps getting better and better, becoming an ultra-violent odyssey through a dark and dangerous fantasy Africa. If you want a visceral, immersive, and wholly unique fantasy novel, and don't mind a story that meanders and doesn't wrap everything up by the end (it IS the first in a trilogy after all), then please give it a go.

• I enjoyed this book tremendously. It’s an epic fantasy, rich in cultural mythologies not familiar to me. I found there to be a bit of a learning curve initially, with the narrative format and characters ‘speaking’ styles but it ‘clicked’ early and everything fell into place for me. I definitely felt I was reading something I had not experienced before and hated putting it down. I very much look forward to the next instalment.

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