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. ( )

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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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!