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When Will Dark Star Trilogy Book 3 Be Released?

Desperate for the trilogy's conclusion. Anyone hear an official date? The cliffhanger in book two's finale has me refreshing news sites daily.
2026-07-27 16:29:23
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Marigen Caballero-Taquiso
Marigen Caballero-Taquiso
There’s no official release date yet for the third Dark Star book. I’m understanding that the author is focusing on his health right now, so I wouldn’t hold my breath just yet. In the meantime, I’ve become hooked on ‘3 BOOKS. The Lunas of vengeance’. This is a complete trilogy and it follows three werewolf sisters, each getting their own novel as they try to bring down the corrupt pack council. It’s a really well-plotted serialized fantasy thriller and it’s fulfilling my fix for the meantime.
2026-07-30
Quincy
Quincy
We are scouring interviews and social media for any update on Book 3, but author Marlon James is notoriously secretive. However, by analyzing the gaps between the first two books (Black Leopard, Red Wolf published in 2019 and Moon Witch, Spider King in 2022), I have concluded that I’m going to have to wait until late 2024 or even early 2025 for the final installment of the fantasy trilogy.

As a super fan of the series, I’ve been grudgingly bringing myself to re-read parts of the first two books and slowly start to dissect and re-analyze each detail to get myself through the wait. The trilogy offers up a brilliant blend of African mythology and gritty fantasy and each of the books has offered up their own individual cinematic feel to each of the chapters. Now that the second book has been released, if you haven’t yet started the series, then now is the ideal time to pick up Black Leopard, Red Wolf and dive in to start reading the rest of the chapters in the third book. It will be worth the wait!
2026-07-28
Thomas
Thomas
I’m trying to contain my growing impatience as the wait for the final installment of the Dark Star trilogy approaches. Although there’s been no official word on a release date from Marlon James, some breadcrumbs from his 2023 podcast commitments led me to conjecture that the writing is deep and will require at least a year or more to reach publication. Based on my experience with long fantasy novels, I am betting on mid-2025 for this book, and I truly want it to be great – not rushed – so I can say that it is just as good as, if not better than, the two fantastic books that already have been published. In the meantime, anyone looking for similar visceral entertainment should try The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter.
2026-07-29
Grayson
Grayson
There is no release date for the third book of the Dark Star series by Marlon James yet. We know he takes his time with each of his books, which are dense, layered and more than worth the wait to read. So for now you can start reading the series with the first book, Black Leopard, Red Wolf. That one was a wild ride. I’m not holding my breath for a 2024 release date for the third book. Until then, there’s a lot of great new fantasy by other authors to read, including the groundbreaking work of N.K. Jemisin.
2026-07-30
Peter
Peter
The 'Dark Star' trilogy is one of those magical series that ruins you for all other books in a single, amazing sweep. Marlon James has been dropping subtle teasers for book 3 on his Instagram, but I wouldn’t expect that to drop before 2025 given the complexity of the narrative he’s building. The first two books in the series utterly and completely redefined my expectations for the genre of fantasy and I would caution anyone who hasn’t yet read them to prepare themselves: these are not easy reads by any stretch of the imagination. But in the meantime, 'The Sword of Kaigen' by M.L. Wang is giving me all the feelings.
2026-07-31

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