Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc by David Elliott - release date March 26, 2019
I LOVE Joan of Arc and read this entire thing in like a hour or so. This is another collection of poems that make a story by David Elliott. If you guys haven't read his other book, Bull, I would SUPER go check that out right now because it is very good and funny (and to be honest I liked that one more but this one was still cool). This is going to be a short review for a short collection of poem stories.
So basically this whole thing was the story of Joan of Arc's beginnings and her death. What was super cool was that some of the poems were told by points of views of inanimate objects or animals and sometimes the text would even look like the object that was supposed to be speaking! (Example: when the sword is narrating the text looks like a sword.)
It was very accurate to history and throughout the book had actual quotes from the trials that Joan went through first when she was executed and the other one after she died where they named her a saint. The story of Joan of Arc just makes me sad though because she did amazing things and accomplished so many excellent feats but the men at the time were like "you're a woman you can't do that please die" and it is so awful! Glad I am alive in this time period and not that one.
Likes/dislikes: I loved how the poems were told through different people/objects. That was so different and unexpected. It was very lyrical and beautiful. This only affects the ARCs but whenever one of these has "Map TK" in the beginning instead of an actual map Alyse sheds another tear (LOL!). Please put the maps in the ARCs too!! Maps are very important. I also didn't like the cover that much; it is kind of ugly. While everyone always is like "Don't judge a book by its cover!" covers are still extremely important and having a pretty cover is like half the battle. I don't know about you, 9 times out of 10 when a book has a beautiful cover it is usually fantastic. Maybe they changed it up a little since the ARC because the picture on Goodreads looks slightly different from the one that I have right now, color-wise. The blue looks lighter.
I would give this a 3 star rating because while it was still very good, overall just made me sad (and I also liked Bull very much and don't think this one was as good, but that's just my opinion). However, I would totally recommend this especially if you like poetry, Joan of Arc, or historical fiction books. Took about an hour to read.
I LOVE Joan of Arc and read this entire thing in like a hour or so. This is another collection of poems that make a story by David Elliott. If you guys haven't read his other book, Bull, I would SUPER go check that out right now because it is very good and funny (and to be honest I liked that one more but this one was still cool). This is going to be a short review for a short collection of poem stories.
So basically this whole thing was the story of Joan of Arc's beginnings and her death. What was super cool was that some of the poems were told by points of views of inanimate objects or animals and sometimes the text would even look like the object that was supposed to be speaking! (Example: when the sword is narrating the text looks like a sword.)
It was very accurate to history and throughout the book had actual quotes from the trials that Joan went through first when she was executed and the other one after she died where they named her a saint. The story of Joan of Arc just makes me sad though because she did amazing things and accomplished so many excellent feats but the men at the time were like "you're a woman you can't do that please die" and it is so awful! Glad I am alive in this time period and not that one.
Likes/dislikes: I loved how the poems were told through different people/objects. That was so different and unexpected. It was very lyrical and beautiful. This only affects the ARCs but whenever one of these has "Map TK" in the beginning instead of an actual map Alyse sheds another tear (LOL!). Please put the maps in the ARCs too!! Maps are very important. I also didn't like the cover that much; it is kind of ugly. While everyone always is like "Don't judge a book by its cover!" covers are still extremely important and having a pretty cover is like half the battle. I don't know about you, 9 times out of 10 when a book has a beautiful cover it is usually fantastic. Maybe they changed it up a little since the ARC because the picture on Goodreads looks slightly different from the one that I have right now, color-wise. The blue looks lighter.
I would give this a 3 star rating because while it was still very good, overall just made me sad (and I also liked Bull very much and don't think this one was as good, but that's just my opinion). However, I would totally recommend this especially if you like poetry, Joan of Arc, or historical fiction books. Took about an hour to read.
-Taylor
Reviewed on January 25, 2019
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