The interactions between the librarians and those who inhabit these remote places were compelling, especially since the people they visit were mistrustful, if not downright aggressive. When the narrative chronicled the librarians’ rounds, swiftly taking us alongside them through their rides across a vast and treacherous landscape, I felt very much engaged. Plus, I found the romance factor to be far too twee for me. Most of the book focuses on the way in which the big bad Van Cleve tries to ‘destroy’ this project and the women behind it…and it was all-too predictable. While I enjoyed those parts that focused on the library project, I found much of the story to be bogged down by unnecessary drama. I’m not sure that this book does them justice. Although this project, and the women behind it, make for a very inspirational subject matter…. It is very much a book-club kind of book as it is inspired by a real group of librarians who between 19 delivered books to some of the most remote regions in the Appalachian Mountains. The Giver of Stars is a sweeping romantic western that tells a fictionalised account of the Kentucky Pack Horse Librarians. “She wasn’t really one for big groups, but she quite liked this, the jokes and the merriment, and the way that you could see actual friendships springing up around the room, like green shoots.”
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