Janna R. (janna5) reviewed on 10/17/2011 + 29 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

I love this premise. In the backwoods of Kentucky there is a library that nobody goes to so thanks to President Roosevelt there are some packhorse librarians that take books into the woods straight to the people that need them. Now mix in a naive young woman from the Chicago area that is used to electricity and running water and then add in some murder, mystery, feuding families, a crooked sheriff and underhanded coal mine owners. All of a sudden poor Allie is covering up a supposed murder, taking care of the library since the librarian is dead and looking after the 101 year old "mother" of the librarian as she tries to figure out why she is even still in Kentucky!


I have loved almost every book by Lynn Austin that I've read. And while this one is really good and entertaining and the main character, Allie, is a total hoot, it is not quite as epic as some of the other ones I've read by Lynn. Still good, just not quite epic.

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