The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings is about a young boy, Perry, who is trying to save his beloved city. New Orleans is a city that is filled with magic and wonder. NOLA is the city where ghosts can be seen dancing the night away. For others, New Orleans might be strange but, to most of its inhabitants, it’s known as home.
Perry knows Nola and all its quirks. So, when the city’s Great Magician starts popping up in random and odd places and well-known songs are being forgotten, Perry knows something is wrong. The nine songs of power escaped from the piano that maintains Nola’s beat and without them, New Orleans will fall. Perry is unwilling to watch his home get destroyed and he is willing to do whatever it takes to recover the nine songs.
I found the novel very hard to get into. I couldn’t tell what was real and what was imaginary. For example, a ghost that appears randomly and plays music. Is this a person’s imagination or did that happen or is it a part of the book’s reality? I found the slang and writing style hard to follow along with. I had re-read the same thing a few times and sometimes, I got confused about what was going on. I decided to stop reading the book since I was willing to do everything else in the world, including cleaning, then reading this book.
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