That said, I cannot continue without addressing the fact that there has been some controversy regarding the similarity to another book about Kentucky Pack Horse Librarians, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, which I am also featuring. I can say I thoroughly enjoyed the book and expect it to be another hit by Moyes on the scale of Me Before You. The romance is clean and you won’t find any on-page sex.īut romance isn’t the primary driving force of the novel, there are high stakes and some life-threatening situations for almost all of the characters that will keep you turning pages. Since Moyes started out as a romance author, you won’t be surprised to find a good deal of romance in the novel as well. The main character, Alice, is an English-born and bred lady who marries a native Kentuckian and we follow her as she moves to Kentucky and ultimately joins the Pack Horse Librarians. If you don’t know, Jojo Moyes is English, but if you do, you might be wondering how she pulled off writing a novel about rural Kentucky.

The novel is permeated with friendship, primarily centered around five librarians and the events that happen to them. They carried books via horseback to some of the most rural and remote areas of Kentucky. Pack Horse Librarians were part of President Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration and a special project of Eleanor Roosevelt. The Giver of Stars follows a group of Pack Horse Librarians in Kentucky in the 1930s. If you don’t recall, Jojo Moyes wrote the smash hit Me Before You, among other bestsellers. The Giver of Stars is the latest novel by bestselling author, Jojo Moyes.

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