I was so excited to get this arc in exchange for my review because The Book Woman was so GOOD! This one did not disappoint! I was so happy to get more of the story and learn more about this period in time! Being from Kentucky myself I just find it so interesting!

Thank you Netgalley and Soucebooks Landmark for access to this arc.

May 6, 2022
REVIEW: The Book Woman’s Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson
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Bestselling historical fiction author Kim Michele Richardson is back with the perfect book club read following Honey Lovett, the daughter of the beloved Troublesome book woman, who must fight for her own independence with the help of the women who guide her and the books that set her free.

In the ruggedness of the beautiful Kentucky mountains, Honey Lovett has always known that the old ways can make a hard life harder. As the daughter of the famed blue-skinned, Troublesome Creek packhorse librarian, Honey and her family have been hiding from the law all her life. But when her mother and father are imprisoned, Honey realizes she must fight to stay free, or risk being sent away for good.

Picking up her mother’s old packhorse library route, Honey begins to deliver books to the remote hollers of Appalachia. Honey is looking to prove that she doesn’t need anyone telling her how to survive. But the route can be treacherous, and some folks aren’t as keen to let a woman pave her own way.

If Honey wants to bring the freedom books provide to the families who need it most, she’s going to have to fight for her place, and along the way, learn that the extraordinary women who run the hills and hollers can make all the difference in the world.

‘Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.’



Dear Ms. Richardson,

I fell in love with the independent spirit of Cussy Carter in “The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek.” Faced with a world that had few jobs for women in 1936 and that also despised her blue skin coloring, she persevered in the Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, working hard to bring books and other reading material to poor Appalachian families desperate for it. Now almost twenty years later, her (adopted) daughter will have to fight her own battles.

The “almost twenty years” is important because Honey Lovett’s (adopted) parents have just been arrested and hauled off to jail for violating miscegenation laws leaving sixteen year old Honey on her own. The state won’t view her as an adult until she turns eighteen and a virulent state social worker is determined to see an also blue skin tinged Honey sent to a reform school where she’ll be in leg chains and breaking rock until the age of twenty-one. Yep, the state can tack on three extra years of misery.

Luckily Honey’s parents have lawyers and have made provisions for this by selecting a guardian to look after her. Unfortunately despite that, Honey soon finds herself alone and scrambling for gainful employment as well as ducking from the social worker and an enraged coal mining, wife beating husband. Can she continue in her mother’s tradition of bringing books to people starved for them while trying to earn her freedom?

Books are the cornerstone to greater minds.



I seem to be reading a lot of books lately that feature women fighting against unfair laws or men determined to keep them in their place. Here Honey is joined by Pearl, a nineteen year old just hired as a fire watcher, and Bonnie, a widow woman now working in the coal mines for money to feed her child after her husband died. All three women are just trying to earn a living and, in the case of two of them, do what they love. Bonnie loathes the mines and the miners who make her life hell. Another young teen – a wild child – has also had run-ins with a certain miner who has fixed his anger on Honey, for daring to bring longed for books to his beaten wife, and Pearl, who was hired for her position ahead of several male applicants.

It’s Honey, through an old newspaper she finds among the library reading material, who just might have found a way to get her freedom. But before that, she fights for the ability to contact her parents and see to them getting better treatment in prison as well as helping her friends endure and survive worse than the “male gaze.” There are people willing to help her as well as ones who want to crush her – and the other women – down.

There were times when I was cheering Honey on and times when I was dreading what I thought might be coming next. Honey must simultaneously work within the system as well as try and buck it. She knows when she must look down and avoid conflict not only as a female in a hardscrabble land that doesn’t prize women’s independence but also as a Blue – one of the despised people of the area with a rare blood condition that turns their skin varying shades of blue. Cussy’s skin is always a deep blue while Honey’s hands and feet can betray her when she gets agitated or angry. Blues were considered to be colored and thus legally couldn’t marry non-Blues under miscegenation laws – something that has now sent her parents to jail.

I enjoyed spending more time in the hollers and ridges of southern Appalachia. This is a place I used to routinely go through on the way to or from visiting relatives when I was young. It is beautiful land with ways that outsiders don’t always understand or appreciate. It’s a place that Cussy and her husband didn’t want to leave as it’s home and they raised Honey to appreciate books and reading just as they did.

In the first book, which readers don’t need to read before this one, I felt that the end of the book was a bit of a pile-on of woe. Here the finale is one I knew was coming but wasn’t sure how it would be handled. What happens is lovely as the relationships and deeds Honey has developed and done come together – along with a little bit of fruition of seeds of literacy that Cussy sowed years earlier. It is not always an easy book to read due to some of the tags I’ve added. Readers who might be triggered are urged to read those as there are some violent scenes and, in places, outcomes. One thing I wanted to see was the resolution of Cussy’s and Jackson’s situations plus see if Honey found handsome Francis’s mother’s banana pudding as good on a date as he said it would be. B

The Book Woman's Daughter is the sequel to The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek. It can be read as a standalone but I would HIGHLY recommend reading its predecessor first.

The story follows Honey, the 'adopted' daughter of Cussy and Jackson, who have been arrested on charges because of their interracial marriage. Honey is a blue like Cussy, though only her hands reflect her coloring. As she is a minor, Cussy goes back to troublesome creek to the care of Loretta, until she can be reunited with her parents. Honey quickly learns that she has to depend on herself and her community sisters to have her freedom.

Set in rural Kentucky in the 1950s, this book takes a personal look at poverty, misogyny and racism that was extremely prevalent and still is today.

I absolutely loved this book and am grateful to have learned more of the history from which the book is based on.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the eARC of this novel!

Who knew there was going to be a sequel to The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek? I certainly did not, until I came across it with no rhyme or reason. What a wonderful surprise to be back in this word. Set 15 years after the original book, this book centers around, you guessed it, the daughter of the famous book woman, Honey.

Honey is 15 years old and loves her parents, but they have been sentenced to jail for having a “mixed marriage”. She rides off to Troublesome Creek to find family friend Loretta and ask her to care for her. The state grants her custody and everything is going well, until Loretta fall ill and passes away. This is where the story really transitions for me.

Threatened of going to state home, doing hard labor until 21, she begins to fight for emancipation. She takes on her mother’s old route delivering books to the people of this rural community. And while Honey goes out of her way to help her neighbors and potentially make lives better, there are people who will do anything to make sure she is put in her place.

Just like the first book, there are so many layers to this complex story. You will be rooting for Honey the entire way through. Richardson has done a fantastic job and taken a book set in the ‘50s and extract so many themes that are 100% relevant today. Beautiful read, that cannot be missed.

Thank you NetGalley and Sourcebooks Landmark for an Advanced Reader’s Copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Oh this book! I wish all historical fiction books were as good as this. I had read the first book and loved it so very much that I was so excited to read this but also afraid that it wouldn’t live up to the first but thankfully that didn’t happen. I think you could read these as stand alones, but it definitely helps to get the backstory of the Bookwoman, who was a strong Kentucky blue.

Honey Lovett is the daughter of Cussy, one of the original Bookwomen back in the 1930’s and 40’s who delivered books to the people of the hills and hollers of Kentucky by horseback and mules. They went to the places that were the most poor, the coal mining families and those who are just trying to survive the Great Depression. Cussy’s (Honey’s mother) family came to Kentucky in 1820. They carried a rare blood disorder that caused their skin to have a blue pigment to it. As a result, they faced a lot of prejudice and intolerance, and at the time, there were laws against marrying outside of your race and color of skin. So when it is discovered that Honey’s parents are married, they are arrested and sent to prison. The social worker left in charge of Honey is determined to have her put in a Childrens prison until she is an adult, despite the fact Honey is caring for herself and supporting herself by taking over a route as a Bookwoman and rides her mothers mule, Junia to do the job. Honey needs a guardian in order to avoid the prison, but unlike most underage girls at the time, Honey has no desire to get married. She’d rather be emancipated and be able to fend for herself even if all the men in the area are against it and will do whatever they can to keep her down.
The resilience of these women who faced such cruelty and prejudice just because they were woman is something that will stick with you. And Honey was not only a woman, but a blue, which made her life that much harder, but she wouldn’t back down. There’s so much pain mixed with triumphs in this story and the bravery it took for these women to confront the corruption and patriarchy is phenomenal! I encourage everyone to read these books.
Thanks to Sourcebooks Landmark and NetGalley for this eArc in exchange for my review.

The Book Woman's Daughter
by: Kim Michele Richardson
SOURCEBOOKS Landmark, Sourcebooks Landmark
pub date: May 3, 2022
genre: Women's Fiction

Book Club members will be eagerly discussing this book, with its Kentucky mountains setting and historical heroine Honey. We first Honey's mother, Cussy Mary Carter, in The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, so now it is time to read her daughter's story. The messages and topics presented here are for the ages, including poverty, prejudice, justice, and endurance. I'm humbled by the courage of the women who persevered during adversity in the 1930s to bring books and knowledge to community members.

The book is a fascinating and compelling narrative that can be read as a stand-alone or a follow up to Richardson's previous book. It is important for its documentation of the blue skinned people and life in rural Appalachia. Learning about the strong women who were pack horse librarians is eye opening and I'm grateful to them for their brave service and promotion of literacy during the hardest of times. I highly recommend this book to lovers of a well-written and engrossing historical fiction novel.

Thank you to Net Galley and SOURCEBOOKS Landmark, Sourcebooks Landmark
for the advance reader's copy and opportunity to provide my unbiased review.

THE BOOK WOMAN'S DAUGHTER is the touching sequel to THE BOOK WOMAN OF TROUBLESOME CREEK, but it stands just as strong as a single title. It is the early 50's and while Post WWII progress may be sweeping the US, the hills of Kentucky face many of the same struggles they'd endured for decades. Men work hard in the mines, and while a few women have joined them, the females face harassment and worse. Education is remains limited and many are still suspicious of outsiders or even locals who support the library and its outreach. Archaic laws still exist and none is more devastating to Honey Lovett than the miscegenation law which declares the marriage void between her adopted mother, a blue, and her adopted father.Readers of the first book will be familiar with the genetic disorder which caused a group of hill people to have bluish skin and to be misjudged as being a different race. Honey, just a teen, is a blue herself and when her parents are sent to jail for their unlawful marriage, she faces several years in a detention facility. Readers may shake their heads over the unfairness, prejudice, and abuse that thrive in the hill country, but author Kim Michele Richardson balances it with equal measures of genuine love and caring. Her notes following the book show just how much research she put into the two novels and how much she loves the area her family calls home. I received a copy from Netgalley and all opinions are mine.

First, thank you to #Netgalley for a copy for this book in exchange for a fair review.
My Interest

This book is the sequel to The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by the same author. It is the book that involved author JoJo Moyes in an accusation of plagiarism due to the similarity of some passages of her book on the same subject. I have also read nonfiction books on the pack horse librarians–those books are at the end of the linked post.

The Story

In first book, we met Cussy Mary Carter is a “Blue,” a person with a rare condition that turns her skin blue. This time we are treated to the story of her daughter, “Honey.” This time both miscegenation and eugenics rear their ugly heads in the hills and hollars of the Eastern Kentucky of the early 1950s. Cussy and her husband are arrested for miscegenation–the marrying of white and black, and are thrown in prison. That leaves their daughter, Honey, a little short of 18, with having to have a guardian or face being sent to reform school until age 21. Her first guardian dies, leaving her vulnerable. But will a job with a new version of the pack horse librarians help her to win legal emancipation? Elsewhere in the community, someone is terrorizing the new female forest service fire-watcher. In prison, near Louisville, Cussy is subjected to lingering eugenics laws and forcibly sterilized while her husband rides out isolation from a prison polio epidemic.

My Thoughts

If anything, I thought this book was as good as the first one. There was plenty of action, a few good friendships for Honey, and lots of ways to see society trying to change. I loved all of that. Firewatcher Pearl, widowed single Mom and trailblazing female miner, Bonnie, and store clerk. Francis open up new vistas for Honey and help her take those last few steps out of childhood and into adulthood.

My only dislike was the insistence that Kate Chopin’s The Awakening and Lady Chatterly’s Lover were put into the court scene. It was not only in the “back woods” of Kentucky that people objected to these books. This was the 1950s–not today, people were much more conservative (even though my paternal grandmother bought Lady Chatterly). I would not have been shocked if someone had ended a library outreach program in the 1950s over even one of those books–even if they were not owned by the library itself (as was the case in the story). I thought that was cramming a bit too much of 2022 into the story. [For those new here, I am a librarian. I am very well-versed in the censorship debates].

In spite of this one little blip, I thought this was an excellent read. I honestly hope there will be a third book.

The sequel is true to the nature and tone of the first book. Richardson makes the second novel engaging and interesting. The details on literature and life during that time period are well-researched. I enjoyed re-visiting that world and felt empathy and respect for Honey.

I enjoyed The Book Woman’s Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson. I loved the first book in the series, and I enjoyed the appearance of some of the previous characters and getting to know some of the newly introduced ones. I find her books to be well-researched and interesting. Richardson knows how to tell a story, and this was a worthwhile addition to the first.

Many thanks to Netgalley for the advanced copy in return for an honest review.

There's background to this story that is relayed in The Book Woman's Daughter such that this can be read as a stand alone book or the two books can be read out of order. If you asked me which I'd prefer, I'm glad I read the earlier book first. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek. This first book featured Cussy Mary Carter, By the end of that novel, Cussy had married Jackson Lovett, but, because she had a genetic blood disorder that turned her full body blue authorities found their marriage violated the miscegenation laws against interracial marriage. Jackson is jailed, then barred from living in Kentucky for twenty-five years.

By the end of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, Cussy had also agreed to raise Honey, the daughter of a young "blue" woman who died in childbirth. The baby's father was also dead. Cussy was a Book Woman because she was part of the Pack Horse Project, a WPA program that ran from the mid-thirties to the early forties delivering library books to people in remote parts of Appalachia. She fundamentally believed in carrying literacy to everyone.

In The Book Woman's Daughter, we meet Honey in 1953, at age sixteen, living with Cussy and Jackson in Kentucky, but away from Troublesome Creek. Although they have kept their heads down, the law has caught up with them and they are heading to court for violation of the miscegenation laws and for Jackson's violation of the order barring him from Kentucky. They've had some time to prepare, stocking up food in their old homestead in Troublesome Creek, arranging for an old (literally old) friend to serve as Honey's guardian and securing legal representation. If the guardianship does not go through, Honey could be made a ward of the state and be subjected to hard labor in a reform school until she is twenty-one. If it goes through, she would be considered an adult at age 18. While Honey has inherited the disorder, only her hands turn blue when she is distressed. She wears gloves to hide this.

There are far too many ways to reveal spoilers in this review, so I will just mention that The Book Woman's Daughter still focuses on literacy for all, on community -- those who are racist and those who are open to everyone no matter their differences, and on family. Richardson does so much with this snapshot of rural Kentucky in 1953. In addition to imagining the impact of the miscegenation laws on a loving, intact family, she examines how women in nontraditional jobs faced opposition and sometimes harassment and abuse (a nineteen year old fire watcher for the park service and a coal miner who is a widow). She touches on how other "different" people do not always fair well in a small town, a little girl with a pet rooster who cannot go to school but loves books; a woman with no family, married to a seriously abusive husband and intentionally isolated and terrorized. Then, there are some in between folks like our old friend Devil John, the moonshiner that can't be Honey's guardian but is generally accepted in a positive way. Doc returns, a staunch supporter of the blue family, now married to a Swedish woman, Millie who is a fun collateral character. Honey has her first crush on a boy at the store. Her parents face difficulties that may seem extreme in these days, but that I personally studied in law school years ago. Honey's rights are seriously impacted by her being female. Richardson, without exaggerating, gets these points across. She also reveals the tremendous healing power of friendship, particularly between Honey and the 19 year old fire watch woman, Pearl.

The Book Woman's Daughter far exceeded my expectations of a second book in this series because I didn't see how it could be as compelling. It was. Also, I never ever have mentioned book discussion questions I see at the end of novels because they are so trite I want to scream. Those included with The Book Woman's Daughter are thought provoking and would make me join a book group just to discuss them.

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The Book Woman’s Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson
A special thanks to Sourcebooks Landmark and NetGalley for this ARC. I voluntarily read and reviewed this book all thoughts and opinions are my own.
I love a book that is both squeal and stand alone together. This book is the story of Honey Lovett, daughter of the original pack horse librarian Cussy Carter. After tragedy strikes their home and Honey’s parents are both taken off to prison she must learn to take care of herself. When the library branch restarts at the outreach program in the 1950s, Honey knows that is her calling. She Reestablished routes that have long been abandoned and starts bringing books back to the hill people of Kentucky. With the help of many of her patrons this 16 year old is not only independent but braver than anyone could ever imagine. Please pick up this great story, you won’t be disappointed.
This book came out yesterday!

I don’t normally read sequels to books. Sometimes I feel that they don’t live up to the first book. However, this one did. It follows Honey the daughter of the Cussey and Jackson Lovett. Honey is hiding from the law that wants to put her into a Childrens Reform Prison sine her parents have been arrested for interracial marriage. Honey travels back to Troublesome Creek to live with Loretta, one of Cussey’s patrons when she was part of the pack mule library delivery. Loretta passes away and Honey is in need of a guardian. She moves back to her mother’s old homestead and gets a job delivering books just like her mother. Honey makes plenty of friends including the new lookout for outpost and a widowed coal miner. Both of whom are women working in a man’s world. When Honey discovers that Guyla, one of her patrons has gone missing and doesn’t believe what the husband has to say, she less the police to Guyla’s final resting place. Honey also wants her freedom and with the help of her lawyer gets emancipation so she can be her own person. Honey is always worried that she won’t be accepted because she is a “blue”, her true friends accept her for being her and not the color of her skin. Honey even finds a beau in the end.

4.5 Stars

…a stubbborn mule, a best friend, and a pajama party…

Thanks #NetGalley @SourceBooks (Landmark) @Bookmarked for a complimentary eARC of #TheBookWomansDaughter by @KimMicheleRichardson upon my request. All opinions are my own.

Honey Mary Angeline Lovett is the daughter of the beloved pack horse librarian known as The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek. Honey faces discrimination as one of the “blue people” and is also fighting for her independence and emancipation because her parents have been imprisoned for breaking the law against mixed marriage. As Honey hides from the law and social services who seek to institulionalize her as a minor, she meets a few extraordinary women and follows in her mom’s footsteps to deliver books and the promise of literacy to the remote hollers of Appalachia.

Even though The Book Woman’s Daughter is a follow up to The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, it can be read and enjoyed as a stand alone. However, reading the books in order will provide a richer reading experience. Because I loved the first book (5 Stars), I eagerly and cautiously looked forward to the second installment. Eager to return to the setting and characters and cautious because of the highest expectations. I loved the first book so much that I think it’s my favorite of the two. The second installment is compelling, also, but in a slightly different way.

Through vivid descriptive details, Richardson transports us to 1950s Kentucky and into the mountains. We feel the povery, prejudice, desperation, cruelty, and injustice.

I love the richly drawn and complex characters in Richardson’s work and the compassion she demonstrates for them. I appreciate the themes of women helping women and sisterhood. Honey is determined and brave and fiercely independent as she escapes with her mule, desperate to secure her freedom and emancipation. I admire her passion and commitment.

Thoughtful themes include prejudice/racism, freedom/independence, literacy, hope, women supporting women, sisterhood, loyalty, friendship, justice, and community.

I’m enthusiastically recommending The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek and its sequel The Book Woman’s Daughter for fans of well-researched and well-written historical fiction, for readers who love stories of inspirational women, for readers who love engaging and pageturning stories, and for those who live or have lived in Kentucky. Book clubs will enjoy both books for their rich discussion possibilities.

Content Consideration: domestic abuse

In the follow-up book to The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, Honey Lovett's parents are both imprisoned for having a child by mixed marriage., which in 1953 was still illegal in Kentucky. When they came to arrest Honey's parents, her mom sent Honey into hiding so that she would not get sent to the workhouse as well. Honey takes off for Troublesome Creek to live with a family friend, until her parents get released from prison. Once she realizes that it will be years before she sees her parents again, Honey is determined to do whatever it takes to emancipate herself, and the first step is stepping into her mother's former role as the mobile librarian on the packhorse library route.
This was a very eye-opening, and interesting time in history, although the conditions the people (women and children especially) lived in was truly heartbreaking and depressing. The author does an excellent job depicting the situation with passion. You can tell that she really has done an excellent job with the research on the subject. If you are a fan of historical fiction, then you should check this one out. It is a bit of history that needs to be remembered, and the way she told the story made it unforgettable.

I loved The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek so much, I would read ANY follow up to it! This time the story centers around Honey, Cussy Mary’s daughter. But it is so much more than the story of Honey growing up and facing her own trials and tribulations.

“But you must know another story, really all the other important stories that swirled around and after her, before they are lost to winters of rotting foliage and sleeping trees, swallowed into the spring hymnals of birdsong rising above carpets of phlox, snakeroot, and foxglove.”

This book focuses on so many strong women of Appalachia and the misogyny, mistreatment, and discrimination they faced. The author highlights the courageous and strong Kentucky women working to make a difference or simply provide for their families or support themselves: the Pack Horse Library, of course, but also the Kentucky Frontier Nursing Service, the fire tower lookouts, and the female coal miners. Such a beautifully written tribute to these women of our past.

The Book Woman's Daughter is the much anticipated sequel to Kim Michele Richardson's excellent previous work "The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek". For any reader who is considering reading this new book without having read the earlier one, I would strongly recommend picking up Book Woman first, not only will you have a much better understanding of the characters in this book, and the social and political circumstances they are struggling to with , but you will be reading one of the most powerful and beautiful works of historical fiction that it has been my pleasure to pick up in the last decade.
Now on to this book. From the moment I found out that the author was going to revisit these characters I knew that I needed to get my hands on the book and I was fortunate enough to get an advance copy to review. Within minutes I knew that my anticipation had not been unwarranted. The book picks up in 1950's Kentucky, and Honey the little girl adopted by Cussy, the "Book Woman" , is now sixteen years old and forced to fend for herself when her parents are arrested for breaking the miscegenation laws and imprisoned because of their illegal marriage. As a minor Honey could be sent to a Reform School until she is 21, unless she marries, finds a guardian or is able to legally emancipate herself. The wheel of fate turns full circle and Honey is able to find work as a trainee mobile librarian, following her mother's old route. Along the way she reunites with some old friends and makes new ones, but also makes an enemy or two who would be only too happy to have her locked away. As the daughter of the spirited Cussy, Honey is determined to make her own way and live a life that she chooses, and she is fortunate to have the support of those friends old and new.
Once again the author does an impeccable job of making the reader really feel like they are in rural Kentucky, the characters spring to life from the page and the descriptions of their beautiful surroundings contrast sharply with the poverty and harsh living and working conditions that so many of them endure. Overall a beautifully written book, and a worthy successor to one of my favourites.
I read and reviewed an ARC courtesy of NetGalley and the publisher, all opinions are my own.

This wonderful sequel to The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek will work as a stand alone read, but please don't deprive yourself of reading both books in order which will increase your emotional attachment to the characters in The Book Woman's Daughter. Honey Lovett is left to fend for herself after her parents are imprisoned for violating Kentucky's miscegenation laws, her father being white and her mother a Blue. The Blue people of Kentucky first arrived around 1820 when a French orphan who carried the gene for the rare blood disorder that causes a blue skin hue claimed a land grant there. The Blues suffered prejudices and unfair treatment for many years. It was not much different for our fictional Honey in the 1950s who was noted as being one of the last of the dwindling number of Blues. Fortunately there were those who embraced Honey and her mother before her as friends and contributing community members as they worked to provide books to those living in hard-to-reach areas of Appalachia.

This story of courage, sisterhood, survival, and respect for others is heart touching. While I usually read and review Christian fiction, and this book is not that, I am pleased that the author carefully handled scenes that others may have described in a more graphic manner. In my mind it is a thoughtful author that knows when to allow readers the opportunity to restrict or give rein to their mental images by providing just enough information to get the point across. Kim Michele Richardson is such an author. I highly recommend this book and its predecessor, and am grateful to have received a complimentary copy from Sourcebooks Landmark via NetGalley without obligation. All opinions expressed here are my own.

The Book Woman's Daughter is a brilliant Historical Fiction Novel by Kim Michele Richardson about a young packhorse librarian who follows in her mother’s footsteps.
I’m a Kentuckian and loved this book, devouring all of the wonderful Kentucky history this book offers. Read, live and walk with your ancestors, relive the stories you heard about family. Listen to the accents, the words from home. Can you hear the words, the sentences, a way of speaking only Kentuckians will fully understand? Read about the brave mountain people that worked hard, overcame obstacles and risked their lives because of their love for family and friends. If you’re not from Kentucky or the Applachians you will learn about a very special place and people. This book includes a reader’s guide, the author’s notes and wonderful historical photos. I have enjoyed all of this author’s Kentucky stories. Don’t miss even one book.
I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own. I appreciate the opportunity and thank the author and publisher for allowing me to read, enjoy and review this book. Fabulous 5 Stars

The Book Woman’s Daughter is a sequel to The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek! It can totally be read as a stand alone!

I was very intrigued with the storyline of the first book and same holds true for this masterpiece! Honey Lovett is the main protagonist, daughter of Mary Cussy, blue skinned librarian from Appalachian mountains! Appalachian mountainous region is vividly portrayed by the author with all its glory and ugliness.

Honey captured my heart with her strong personality, her willingness to stand and fight for freedom. This is a masterpiece historical fiction about the sisterhood, bravery and hope!

Thank you Sourcebooks Landmark and NetGalley for the gifted galley. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this masterpiece!