Marsha Moyer

Marsha Moyer's The Second Coming of Lucy Hatch is a 'keeper.'

Lucy is unexpectedly a widow. Her rancher husband Mitchell walks out into a field one morning and never comes back. And with his death Lucy comes to realize that during her fourteen-year-marriage to Mitchell she herself was slowly dying. So a rather numb Lucy moves home to Mooney, Texas, and the care of her born-again mother, her free-thinking Aunt Dove, and her over-protective brother and sister-in-law. Add to this mix the local show more handyman, Ash Farrell - guitar-playing, sex symbol, unconventional, and strongly attracted to Lucy.

This is a wonderful multi-level book. It's both a romance - Lucy and Ash are HOT - and a coming of age book. Lucy is forced to look to her past in order to create a future. I loved every page - from the low down Texas dive where Ash sings and is beaten up by a former girl friend to Mitchell's lonely tombstone engraved with only his name and dates.

The Second Coming of Luch Hatch gets an A from me. show less

Lovely, really. I spent a lot of time being very worried about everyone, and my goodness but there were a lot of plot points to work out, but, oh, gardens, and holding hands, and old burned-down churches, and Ash Farrell, who's still sexy as hell, even when he's being an asshole. Now we need one from his point of view!

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 show more 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? show less

Dancing to the Moon was an intimate, warm read with likeable characters solidly grounded in a small country town. Its an easy read that lets you meander alongside peeking in the windows of the lives of Lucy, Ash, Denny and a variety of other charcters.Its been a long time since I read the first in this series but Dancing to the Moon can easily stand alone. Delightful.