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B is for Ballad

The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings

August 3, 2025 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Bingo 1: “B” square I was in New Orleans in January for a work conference; the only time I went into the French Quarter was to visit a bookstore. On the local interest shelf there was one title I vaguely recognized: The Ballad of Perilous Graves. This was for the first half a generally interesting musical and magical realism kind of mystery in which local kids notice something is wrong with the spirit of the city of Nola and must then save everyone and everything […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Alex Jennings, allegory, cbr17bingo, jazz, magical realism, mystery, New Orleans, the ballad of perilous graves

CoffeeShopReader's CBR17 Review No:34 · Genres: Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: Alex Jennings, allegory, cbr17bingo, jazz, magical realism, mystery, New Orleans, the ballad of perilous graves ·
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Everybody is sleeping on this one, and they shouldn’t be!!

The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings

December 23, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

This book was incredibly imaginative but also sometimes confusing, but overall a very good time. I was going to Review Amnesty this book but it hasn’t broken out like I hoped it would do, and I would like to see more people reading it, so I am going to say some stuff. This is an extremely imaginative adult fantasy book, despite three of the main characters being children, set in an alternate New Orleans that is just called Nola. In this Nola, magic is commonplace, […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, Alex Jennings, music, narfna, New Orleans, the ballad of perilous graves

narfna's CBR14 Review No:220 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, Alex Jennings, music, narfna, New Orleans, the ballad of perilous graves ·
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