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A review by ndehning
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
3.0
I really struggled to get into this book and it was only after I started speed-reading/skimming it that I finally made progress. The narrator’s vocabulary and semantics varies drastically throughout the story in a very distracting way. Examples: “I handed him his lunch bucket and set his old carbide lamp helmet atop his head.” Versus “‘Weren’t no med—‘ I stopped and tried to remember my grammar lessons. ‘There is...isn’t any medicine in the home, sir,’ I said slowly.” It’s like the author has a vision for how Clussy/Bleut should sound but it’s like a bad accent that comes and goes throughout the story.
I also agree with others that said the ending was like a soap opera or overly melodramatic. Around the climax it seemed to switch from a historical fiction to a Nora Roberts book.
Oh and the first chapter felt so different than the first 3/4 of the book. I kept waiting to return to what was introduced on the first page and it wasn’t until nearly 230 pages in (of a 280 page book) that we returned to the first page of the book. That was also a bit distracting. Almost as if it was thrown in as an afterthought or a comment from an editor as a way to entice readers to make it to the climax of the book.
I did enjoy learning about a medical condition I had never heard of — methemoglobinemia. And I also enjoyed learning more about the horseback librarian program.
I also agree with others that said the ending was like a soap opera or overly melodramatic. Around the climax it seemed to switch from a historical fiction to a Nora Roberts book.
Oh and the first chapter felt so different than the first 3/4 of the book. I kept waiting to return to what was introduced on the first page and it wasn’t until nearly 230 pages in (of a 280 page book) that we returned to the first page of the book. That was also a bit distracting. Almost as if it was thrown in as an afterthought or a comment from an editor as a way to entice readers to make it to the climax of the book.
I did enjoy learning about a medical condition I had never heard of — methemoglobinemia. And I also enjoyed learning more about the horseback librarian program.