The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Quite an interesting read. Even though I read these out of sequence, reading book two first, I found I like both stories. They were very similar, and with the same narrator, Katie Schorr, I felt both main characters were the same. Still, when I took a moment, I found my way back to the current person. Her voice fits the characters and keeps the story going.
Until these stories, I don’t think I remember hearing about the blue-skinned people of Kentucky until these books. But what doesn’t surprise me is the bigotry of the willfully ignorant. Though the main character does everything in her power to help others, some see a minor issue as something to hate a person for.
What is fun is watching the main characters of the two books grow in their abilities as librarians, teachers, women, and riders of an onery mule.
This story is worth reading, even if you have to read this out of order.
Darswords 