A review by aleffert
The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch

4.0

Liking ambitious messes is on brand for me, and this is definitely an ambitious mess, but this is a little too on the mess side to make my favorites. At its best it's earnestly emotional, visceral and obsessed with viscera. But it veers too hard into SHOCKING and the characters never escape their roles as symbolic elements of a perfunctory plot.

To describe what actually happens would be beside the point, but if a gross bloody holy future joan of arc riff that doesn't quite work sounds your speed, maybe you should pick it up.