Review: The Book of Joan

The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I borrowed this book from my brother-in-law. I could be misremembering, but I think someone else recommended it to him, but he hadn't read it yet. He was wary of it because it is rated so low, but he knew I basically read anything.

I feel like this book is what happens when an author doesn't understand the science in their science fiction... I'm guessing Yuknavitch has a good understanding of the human elements of this book, but I just couldn't understand the point for any of the science fiction/dystopia aspects of this book. They're not convincing, and I spent most of the book wondering why she decided to write a book about de-evolving and beings between human and matter (since when were those two things on the same spectrum?). None of that made any sense.

Maybe this book would have made sense if I was more familiar with Joan of Arc, but I'm not sure the historical aspect works with the dystopian future.

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