Joan

by Freeman Ng

After a hundred years of war, with France on the brink of destruction, Saint Margaret of Antioch is returned to the earth to aide Joan of Arc in the liberation of her homeland, but what can she do when Heaven itself seems to be conspiring to send Joan to the Fire?

Genres: Historical Fiction

243 pages, Paperback

First published July 21, 2014

About the author

Freeman Ng is a former Google software engineer and the author of a novel of Joan of Arc, a personalizable picture book, and a daily haiku feed. He lives in Oakland, CA.

Reviews

[Carrie Kellenberger · Rating 2 out of 5]

I love the story of Joan of Arc and looked forward to reading Joan as it was referred to me by a friend.

I think that Ng's writing is good. Some of his passages are very beautiful, but the perspective he writes from is very unusual for a book and it threw me off consistently in each chapter. It's an unusual perspective to write from in a book. For this reason, it lessened my reading experience and I found it difficult to follow because of the POV.

There are many promising passages in the book and I'm sure Freeman Ng's next novel will be good. He is a talented writer. I just wouldn't recommend writing a book from the perspective he's taken in his novel.