.alanajoli reviews Magicknegro's TheBalladofPerilousGraves, a complex, lyrical tale set in a New Orleans where music is literally magic.
gets off on the right foot: a failed magician, a New Orleans that runs on the magic of song, and a quest that requires facing off against the Haint of all Haints. Everything about this description is true—but like Nola herself, there are so many more secrets to uncover in Alex Jannings’s gorgeous new novel. You have to dance into the first pages and let the city carry you, even while she’s threatened by the Storm, the spirit of every hurricane that New Orleans has ever faced.
Each letter has a clue to where she’ll find the next one, and when a haint—the ghost of Koizumi Yakumo—steals her latest letter, Peaches is determined to face the spirit and get it back. But when things go wrong, separating Perry and Brendy from their friend, the siblings encounter Doctor Professor, a musician haint who confesses that the songs powering Nola have been set free from his piano. The children have to get them back.
It takes a long time in the book to figure out how these two stories intersect, and why there’s such a strangeness in Perry’s Nola. There, the children interact with floating graffiti tags, P-bodies who seek highs from touching the graffiti, zombies, and giant nutria, semi-aquatic rodents that, in Nola, can speak. Casey’s city is also full of wonder and magic, but seems more familiar, closer to the city tourists might encounter.
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