The Book Woman’s Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson

 

Title:  The Book Woman’s Daughter

Author:  Kim Michele Richardson

Narrated by:  Katie Schorr

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Length: Approximately 10 hours and 29 minutes

Source: Checked out with Libby through the Kewaunee Public Library.  Thank-you!

 

What is your favorite sequel to a book or movie you enjoyed?

The Book Woman’s Daughter is the sequel to The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek which I just read for my Rogue Book Club back in December.  This book picks up sixteen years after the last book ended.  Sixteen-year-old Honey Lovett finds herself alone after her parents are arrested for being married.  Her mother is a “blue” and her father is white and their marriage breaks the law of intermarriage between races.  Honey is a blue herself.  She picks up her mother’s old pack horse library route and supports herself that way.  Will the law allow her to live on her own?  Will her parents get out of jail?

I thought this novel did an excellent job of the setting in 1950’s Kentucky and captured the area and people of that time.  The characters were well developed and interesting.  I was slightly disappointed that Honey’s parents remained in jail at the end of the novel.  I’m hoping there is a future book to resolve that storyline.  I also thought many of the storylines from the first book were repeated in the second book with now Honey experiencing them.  This book focused on how hard it was to be a woman in rural Kentucky in the 1950s and there is a lot of domestic violence on display.  It was sad, but also uplifting.

Katie Schorr was a great narrator and was the voice of Honey Lovett for me.

While this can be read as a standalone, I think it would work best to read The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek first.  I hope there is another novel and this becomes a trilogy.