Bayou Magic, by Jewell Parker Rhodes

[sophia_sol]

This is a children's fantasy novel set in the bayous of Louisiana, featuring a 9 year old Black girl learning about her family's magical heritage and finding a place she belongs. A good book, but the prose style was very choppy, with very short sentences and phrases, and it meant I could never really settle into the book. It's not as bad as Chuck Wendig (I struggled SO much with the one book of Wendig's I read!) but it's still not a prose style I enjoy reading. Which means I wanted to like this book a lot more than I actually liked it. Sigh.

Comments

[lirazel]

Oh what a shame! I am into the concept of bayou magic, but I do not do well with choppy prose.

[sophia_sol]

Yeah it was really disappointing! I do wonder if it's the sort of book that would work better when read aloud; a good narrator can do a lot to make prose feel like it flows.