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A review by terroreesa
The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch
3.0
this book was a lot. it's not for everyone.
i think my biggest frustration was the build-up of Joan as this mythically powerful woman, but her first-person narrative revealed her as anything but. book three was a real letdown; i wanted more characterization of Trinculo and Nyx, and the Jean de Men reveal at the end felt anticlimactic and frankly unnecessary. but the worst aspect of it was definitely the switch to Joan's voice. not that an ordinary woman can't be heroic, obviously, but she seemed so wildly unaware of her power and its source. Christine's version of Joan's story depicts Joan as much more of an active agent in her own mythos.
i think my biggest frustration was the build-up of Joan as this mythically powerful woman, but her first-person narrative revealed her as anything but. book three was a real letdown; i wanted more characterization of Trinculo and Nyx, and the Jean de Men reveal at the end felt anticlimactic and frankly unnecessary. but the worst aspect of it was definitely the switch to Joan's voice. not that an ordinary woman can't be heroic, obviously, but she seemed so wildly unaware of her power and its source. Christine's version of Joan's story depicts Joan as much more of an active agent in her own mythos.