Moon Witch, Spider King
core novel 2022 The Dark Star Trilogy
Record
| First published | 2022 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.16 (5,481 ratings, collected 2026-08-26) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780735220201 |
Synopsis
Moon Witch, Spider King retells the events of Black Leopard, Red Wolf from the perspective of Sogolon, the formidable Moon Witch who joined Tracker's expedition in the first novel, now recounting her own long and turbulent life and her version of the search for the missing boy. Her account reaches back across a rivalry spanning a century with the Aesi, the king's powerful chancellor, whose closeness to the throne is described as making the two of them function like the many limbs of a single spider of influence. Told as Sogolon's own contested history of victories, defeats and survival in a world that consistently underestimates her, the novel functions as a companion volume that complicates and reframes the first book's narrative through the eyes of a woman who has spent a century resisting the authority arrayed against her.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Dark Star Trilogy
- Series: The Dark Star Trilogy core; position 2 of 2 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Marlon James
Notes
- From the series record (The Dark Star Trilogy): Two of three planned novels published so far.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series The Dark Star Trilogy: position 2 of 2: previous Black Leopard, Red Wolf (2019)
Sources
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