Marsha Moyer

was greatly impressed by the first Lucy Hatch novel. The second wasn't quite as good, but was nevertheless above average. And I will read the next and final one. But 'Heartbreak Town' didn't quite live up to my expectations. We all know that Cinderella and her prince don't really go on to live 'happily ever after.' Yet I found reading this one to be painful. And I think it was because of Moyer's approach - Lucy talks too much about the past and past transgressions, but we don't see them ourselves. Reading this one I felt that the entire book was just a set up for the next one, when all will again be sorted out. I wish I'd just waited and read books 3 and 4 back to back.… (more)

Marsha Moyer's The Last of the Honkey-tonk Angels is getting the nod as the best 'chick lit' novel of 2003. I'm not sure what makes it 'chick lit,' but I am sure that it's a fine fine book. It's also the sequel to Moyer's first novel, The Second Coming of Lucy Hatch, and I strongly suggest reading that one first.

Lucy Hatch is a strong, sexy, earthy novel about two people finding each other despite, or, perhaps, because of their pasts.

Honkey-tonk Angel is the story of what happens when Lucy wakes up one morning with sexy Ash and realizes that life must go on.

Moyer introduces Denny, Ash's fourteen-year-old daughter, who comes to spend the summer with Ash and Lucy. And Denny becomes a strong voice in the novel. This is not a romance. It is a novel about relationships, and the ties of family and the past, and love, and growing up [whether you're fourteen or thirty-three], and accepting responsibility....

Once again Moyer's characters are full, well-rounded, quirky, wonderful; East Texas has never been more interesting, and the tension between love and sex never more successfully explored.

Can I give this one a 6 out 5?… (more)