Saskia Maarleveld is an experienced voice-over actress and Earphones Award–winning narrator. She is also an Earphones Award–winning narrator.
For her stage performances, she has received the 2010 Lunt–Fontanne Fellowship and the Callaway Award. Schneider Prize for Creative Achievement.Ĭeleste Ciulla is an accomplished actress and voice-over artist based in New York City. Other awards include the 2009 Tristen Award for Best Actress as Sally Bowles in Cabaret and the 2006 Roselyn E. AudioFile magazine named her one of the Best Voices of 2013 for her work in Gulp. She began her voice-over career by voicing animation in Asia. It could have been 50 pages shorter and not much would have been lost.Emily Woo Zeller is an artist, actor, dancer, choreographer, and voice artist who has won Earphones Awards and the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration in 2018.
It felt to me like the author kept pushing himself to put more words on paper until it was long enough to be passed off as a young adult book. But really I would have liked it either way if the whole thing had been written better. I would also have personally liked it if the story had been written from a more scientific/skeptical viewpoint when it came to Joan’s visions (epileptic seizures?). It also took away from the reality of the situation it’s hard to focus on a young woman being burned as a heretic when the doorknob is offering it’s two cents on the experience of getting touched by her. The poems were very repetitive and even though I think including the point of view of inanimate objects was kind of a cool idea, the execution was just really underwhelming. The parts of the book that were taken from transcript were interesting and I learned a little bit about the real Joan of Arc by reading it, but even though the whole thing was extremely short it still managed to seem overstuffed.
It also has some actual bits of transcript from her trial and of course, poems from Joan’s own perspective as she looks back on her tragically short life. Therefore you get a poem from the point of view of a sword, one from a shield, one from an old dress, etc. It’s written in verse and jumps back and forth in time in the hours leading up to Joan of Arc’s execution, and there are poems from various points of view, including people Joan has known throughout her life and even inanimate objects that have played important roles in her story. I think Joan of Arc is a potentially fascinating historical figure and she’s someone I’d be interested in learning more about, but this book just kind of fell flat for me. Genre: YA Historical Fiction/ Books in Verseĭon’t let the pretty cover fool you. Title: Voices- The Final Hours of Joan of Arc
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