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Book Review of Pope Joan

Pope Joan
Pope Joan
Author: Donna Woolfolk Cross
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 12


As the author says, this is a fictionalized account of a much-disputed event in the 800s, definitely the Dark Ages. Joan's life was hard, as was that of most women's. The things we take for granted now were beyond a dream for most women (and men) in those days.

I thought the author wrote well, and I had a hard time putting it down. This is apparently the author's only fiction book, which is too bad; I would gladly read another of hers.