Review of "The Voice"

I admit I was a little suspect of this "translation" before receiving it. While the approach of having various authors/translators/critics contribute is usually a sound one when they all bring a unhidden agenda to the text it is hard to take the translation seriously as a "real" Bible. Passages in The Voice were extremely well-written and added a lot of detail to the Word of God. The only problem I see is that the authors added details based on conjecture and not on the actual words of inspiration. In fairness, the additions were in italics as they are in many versions, but these authors went too far I believe. They constantly put forward the idea of Christ being a "celestial voice" and "liberating King." While both concepts may be true they give the novice reader a different view of Jesus than most mainstream versions. I liked how the Gospels were done in dialouge form making it easy to see who was addressing who.
The book is very hip, modern and well-designed, but I would not use it without consulting other translations to help insure accuracy. Overall, 2 out of 5. I wanted to like it more, but it just went too far.