How long does it take to read Black Leopard, Red Wolf?
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James takes about 12 hours 28 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of The Dark Star Trilogy
Next: Moon Witch, Spider King
About 12 hours 28 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2019. 680 pages, about 187,000 words.
25 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 20 hours 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 28 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 48 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
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-shifting man-animal known as Leopard. As Tracker follows the boy's scent--from one ancient city to another; into dense forests and across deep rivers--he and the band are set upon by creatures intent on destroying them. As he struggles to survive, Tracker starts to wonder: Who, really, is this boy? Why has he been missing for so long? Why do so many people want to keep Tracker from finding him? And perhaps the most important questions of all: Who is telling the truth, and who is lying?
Subjects: Fantasy, Fiction, Mythology, Adult, LGBT, Africa
