The Giver of Stars is about two women, Alice Van Cleve, a newly married Englishwoman who moves to rural Kentucky with her new husband Bennett, and Margery O’Hare, a free spirit who refuses to be defined by her father’s poor reputation or be forced into the narrow confines of what it means to be a woman in 1930’s Kentucky. I liked the story well enough, but it was just so damn slow and I can’t deny I find Moyes writing a bit amateur.īut I’m getting ahead of myself. I’ve since learned that this is the second fictional book about the subject though, so please note that there is another book called, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson, which is also about the pack horse library. It’s a fine piece of work that creates an interesting enough fictional narrative about a real piece of history (the pack horse library).
I was a bit weary of it because I didn’t love Moyes most popular book, Me Before You, but the content of this book couldn’t be more different, so I was optimistic that as a lover of historical fiction, I would enjoy it. My book club voted for The Giver of Stars as our February pick and it came highly recommended. Gah, the disappointment! I am definitely the minority, but only 2.5 stars from me.
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