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Summary: What a Perfect Book!
Review: For a first book, I thought it was extraordinarily addictive. This type of romance isn't usually my cup of tea, but it was fresh and fun. A young East Texas widow moves back to her hometown of Mooney, Texas and it is replete with characters one would suspect live there. Ultra-religious mother, spinster aunt, and, of course, the cute as all git-out handyman. I just ordered the sequel.
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Summary: A Truly 5 Star Read
Review: For anyone wanting an escape into a truly good book from the first page to the end, The Second Coming of Lucy Hatch is the book to read. We meet Lucy when her farmer husband of 14 yrs is killed in a terrible farm accident. All of a sudden the life she has gotten used to is over in a flash and Lucy must start again. She goes home to Mooney Texas and her family and rents herself a small house in the country to try and figure out exactly what went wrong with her life. What happened to the girl she once was and who will she become now. She finds it hard to grieve for her husband and things get complicated when a country singer named Ash takes a shine to her. The book deals wonderfully with guilt, family ties and Lucy's ability in the end to finally come to terms with her past and to be able to look forward to a new future! I fell in love with the Mooney Texas and the people who live there and look forward to the next book by Marsha Moyer.
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Summary: Marsha Moyer is a spellbinder
Review: I got this book from the library on a whim - and stayed up all night reading it. I'm lucky to find one book a year that compells me to do that. I loved the characters - I never met people the citizens of Mooney and each one was fully and colorfully drawn, likeable (which is pretty rare) and quoteable, without being over-the-top. I found the wisdom and the morality a great deal more natural than is usually found in heroines in novels these days. Not too preachy, but enough to show the complexity of Lucy without forcing the reader to be judgmental. I will eagerly look forward to Ms Moyer's next efforts.
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Summary: Moyer hatches a fun first novel
Review: I read this one in a day - it was engrossing from start to finish. Light and sweet, not too much different than your average romance novel, but with a little more spark and substance. Normally, I tend to take a cynical bent on books like this, but it was such a pleasure to read, I set my cynic aside for the entire novel.Thirty-three year old Lucy finds a new life for herself when her husband (whom she did not love) of fourteen years dies unexpectedly. She is unencumbered and free to make her life over. She moves back to her hometown and immediately becomes captivated by heartthrob country singer/carpenter Ash Farrell. Their relationship takes on the fun spar and parry that leads to the inevitable moment when they FINALLY get in bed together, beginning Lucy's sexual awakening. These love scenes are just juicy enough to give new meaning to Lucy's "second coming" (wink, wink). For a first novel, this was so smooth and well-paced - there wasn't a hang-up in the whole book. A great escape novel that'll make you want to go out and find your own honky-tonk handyman.
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Summary: Elegent Electric Prose and Unforgettable Characters
Review: I was hooked from the first line, through every page down to the last and then had to start over again because I knew there were things I'd missed. Lucy is a character who seems as real to me as a good friend and her journey from a woman who has almost gone stale to a passionate one is heart breaking, sexy, and all out hilarious. The good people of the tiny Texas town, Mooney, are beautifully rendered, eloquent in a simple way, and like Lucy, you feel like you've lived there by the end.
Marsha Moyer is an author who's now on my "must buy, no questions asked" list. And she's even better in the sequel, Honky Tonk Angels.
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Summary: What a Perfect Book!
Review: I'd give this book six stars if I could. Marsha Moyer has a real talent for telling a story...and Lucy's story is well-worth the effort to read. After Ash Farrell comes tumbling into her newly-widowed life, Lucy Hatch is turned upside down! GREAT READING!
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Summary: There's just something about this book
Review: It took me 2 tries to really get into this book, but once it grabbed me I stayed up late to finish it. I think if I was from Texas I would have enjoyed it even more - stopping at "Willie B's" to eat ribs, going to the local honky tonk each week, the presence of religious zeal, and the overriding presence of what it is like to live in a small town where everyone knows everything.
An underlying current throughout the book is the fact that 3 fathers have left, shaping the people remaining, but no one is shedding a tear over these losses now, a refreshing fact in a coming of age story.
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Summary: Gem of a book
Review: Purely entertaining and a pleasure to read. No surprises, but I couldn't wait to pick it up and get to reading every night. The author has a fine way of telling the story of two people finding each other. I'm usually a grouch when it comes to love stories but I love this book.
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Summary: Wonderful characters I could not put it down
Review: The characters that are created are not special but are very realistic. The town is anywhere USA with people that you have known forever.
It is the characters that make this simple story one that can not be put down. Being introduced to Lucy and her new life laid out before her, makes you think of the changes you would make in your life.
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Summary: A Romance Not Just for Romance Readers
Review: The Second Coming of Lucy Hatch is what I'd call a literary romance. You probably won't find it in the Romance section of your bookstore; at least, I didn't in mine. But it's got all the ingredients: girl meets boy, they fall in love, but will they stay together? What gives it that "literary" stature is Marsha Moyer's voice. She knows how to tell a story; she knows how to pull you into the character's head and heart. The book flows like warmed molasses. I grinned; I even cried. A good read, most definitely. Helen Ginger, Editor of Doing It Write.
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