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Summary: INCREDIBLE
Review: Delightful and touching. It isn't often I find a book that I can't put down - this is one of those books. It makes you want more when you turn the last page. It reminds you what reading for enjoyment is all about. Absolutely delightful. I agree, I definately need the option for more stars to accurately rate this book!
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Summary: Love love love this book 5+ stars
Review: Excellent and if I dare say better then the first (The Second Coming of Lucy Hatch). I am transported into the story, the setting, and the characters.
I love the characters and even the inmaturity discribed in one review adds to the book. I find myself wishing for a relationship like the one Lucy and Ash have, the passion is something to envy.
Denny reveals a more indepth understanding of Lucy and the characters. Also she is written perfectly as a teenager, one who says things without thinking and changes her mind all the time.
This story keeps your attention and rarely offers time to put it down. I found at the end of the book, I read very slow becuase I did not want to leave the world that Marsha had created.
You will finish the book wanting more . . .
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Summary: Even better than "The Second Coming of Lucy Hatch...
Review: I still can't believe that Ms. Moyer was able to write an even better novel than "The Second Coming of Lucy Hatch". I can't wait to read Ms. Moyer's next novel....please tell me that I will hear from Lucy and Ash again and soon?!
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Summary: Lukewarm Follow-Up to Fabulous Debut
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed "The Second Coming of Lucy Hatch." I loved that it was spunky and bittersweet. I really connected with Lucy Hatch and her struggle to move on with her life after the death of a husband she didn't really love truly engaged me. I rallied for her and Ash and was thrilled to see a sequel.But the sequel didn't advance the characters in a way that I found truly enlightening or moving. The first book felt freeing and you finished feeling as though you'd grown with Lucy. The second book tries to focus on too many main character and too many topics. Plus, the Ash I loved from book one wasn't quite so lovable in book two. Honestly, if these two immature adults had one more fight, I was sure that I would have to put it down without finishing it. It's sad to read a novel where the 14 year old girl is the most mature individual involved and that's not saying much. If you loved the first book, you'll probably want to pick this one up just to see where the author took her characters. But don't expect too much. And don't expect a satisfying ending.
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Summary: Another 5 Star Effort!
Review: In fact, if I could give this book more stars, I would. Honky Tonk picks up where "The Second Coming of Lucy Hatch" left off. If you haven't read "Lucy", I recommend that you do that first so that you can fully appreciate the tremendous job that Marsha Moyer does in describing the growth and development of her characters in this sequel. Lucy, Ash, Aunt Dove, Bailey, Geneva are written in such a way that you feel you know them, or at least wish you did. Small town Texas, or small town anywhere is easy to recognize due to Ms. Moyer's ability to paint the picture with her expressive prose. Her writing is lyrical, wise, and oh so quotable - "baggage is how we carry the good stuff." I've waited anxiously for this sequel since last summer, and it was well worth the wait! Treat yourself to "The Second Coming of Lucy Hatch" first, and then "Honky Tonk" - you will not be disappointed.
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Summary: solid family drama
Review: In Texas three months have passed since widow Lucy Hatch moved in with carpenter and country blues singer Ash Farrell with the sex remaining as heated as when they first met. However, both are suddenly stunned when Ash's fourteen year old daughter Denny, a stranger he has not seen in almost a decade, is dumped on them by her flitter of a mom. Apparently, Ash's former wife has no room for a daughter when she starts her new job. As the couple struggles to become parents to the brooding angry teen, Lucy also learns that she is pregnant with Ash's second child.
She fears telling Ash because he has ambitions that an infant could thwart. Meanwhile Ash has ambitions to travel Nashville to perform, but he fails to share his plans with Lucy for fear that his ambition will destroy their relationship. While both try to do right by Denny, she has no interest in anything except to emulate her blues playing father.
Fans of the SECOND COMING OF LUCY HATCH will enjoy this sweeter sequel starring the delightful Lucy and her significant other Ash. The tale focuses on the impact of keeping important secrets from a loved one as both lead characters cause relationship problems by doing so. Denny and her mom provide deeper insight into Ash's past. Though a couple of subplots spin away from the prime theme of honesty is the best policy in a relationship, family drama fans will enjoy the continuing saga of Lucy and Ash because they are full blooded characters supported by a powerful secondary team.
Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Lukewarm Follow-Up to Fabulous Debut
Review: Marsha Moyer has done a wonderful thing. What is it, you ask? She wrote a sequel to her first novel THE SECOND COMING OF LUCY HATCH. HONKY TONK ANGELS is even better than her first and that's saying a lot. This is a book that once you read it, you can't find another book good enough to start because the images Ms. Moyer has written continue to dance through your head and you're not sure you want to replace them with something else! Lucy and Ash are back with us again along with Ash's daughter, Denny. Their lives flow like a Colorado river when the snow has melted - there are some rough spots, but lots of calm ones too. But you never know what's going to be around the next bend. And that's fine too. I can't describe the beauty of this story because I don't have the talent Ms. Moyer does, but reading this book has given me the push to start writing again, to make an effort to put my own words into my own story. I will be recommending THE LAST OF THE HONKY TONK ANGELS to all my friends, my sisters, and even people I don't know. I'll probably walk up to strangers in a bookstore and the library and tell them gently to try this book because it's such an incredible read.
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Summary: It Just Keeps Getting Better
Review: Marsha Moyer has done a wonderful thing. What is it, you ask? She wrote a sequel to her first novel THE SECOND COMING OF LUCY HATCH. HONKY TONK ANGELS is even better than her first and that's saying a lot. This is a book that once you read it, you can't find another book good enough to start because the images Ms. Moyer has written continue to dance through your head and you're not sure you want to replace them with something else! Lucy and Ash are back with us again along with Ash's daughter, Denny. Their lives flow like a Colorado river when the snow has melted - there are some rough spots, but lots of calm ones too. But you never know what's going to be around the next bend. And that's fine too. I can't describe the beauty of this story because I don't have the talent Ms. Moyer does, but reading this book has given me the push to start writing again, to make an effort to put my own words into my own story. I will be recommending THE LAST OF THE HONKY TONK ANGELS to all my friends, my sisters, and even people I don't know. I'll probably walk up to strangers in a bookstore and the library and tell them gently to try this book because it's such an incredible read.
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Summary: Good sequel
Review: 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?
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Summary: We Need More Stars Here
Review: 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?
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