Soon enough, Clara’s friends and then dozens of other girls fall victim to the strange disease which seems to defy all classification and remedy. It starts out in Colleen’s homeroom, where the popular and (usually) utterly poised Clara suddenly dissolves into violent twitches and tics. Joan’s Academy, where teenage girls are falling ill with no rhyme or reason. Most prominently, in modern times, are the events surrounding St. The story in Conversion unfolds in two different timelines. Catholic school! Teenage hysteria! Mysteries! Witchcraft! Friendship! Katherine Howe took some fairly common subjects in YA and made them original through some plausible plot twists and good historical detail. I hated seeing Joan look okay with being burned alive.This YA novel by Catherine Howe (author of The Physick Book Of Deliverance Dane) is about quite a few subjects I like. A crowd of people milled around her, their hands clasped in prayer, looking on with these fake sorrowful faces, as if they really wished they could do something but couldn’t be bothered. Instead of her armor she was dressed in a white linen shift with a bow at the neck, like what a little girl would wear to bed. But Joan looked different in that panel-her mouth closed, her hands bound before her, and her eyes looking up at heaven in this beatific way. The flames were made of these long shards of red and orange glass, and there were coils of smoke in black iron tracery all around her. My least favorite was the one of Joan burning at the stake. Both of the horse’s front legs were drawn up, as though about to rear, his eyes rolling back in his head. She held the reins in one hand and a spear in the other, and her mouth was open, urging all the troops behind her onward into battle.
“My favorite was the one of her on horseback, dressed in armor, her hair streaming behind her.
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