Heartbreak Town

Marsha once again brings us to Texas with the gang...Lucy, Ash, Denny....and we are lost in the world of the Farrell's. I can't wait for book number 5!!!!!!!!!!

Was so excited to see this third book to come out. I had no idea it would be a series! Fell in love with "The Last of the Honky-Tonk Angels" and was so happily surprised each time I saw the next book that came out. Thank you Ms. Moyer for creating such an amazing world to visit.

Lucy Hatch Farrell left her country-singing husband in Nashville and returned to her east Texas hometown of Mooney. Heartbroken and afraid, she decided she couldn't live with Ash's drinking and wanted more for her son, Jude. So she's just a bit surprised when months later she wakes to find a new pickup truck parked in her yard and her estranged husband's cowboy boots sticking out the window-the same husband who is supposed to be in rehab. Ash had to sign himself out of rehab. It just wasn't working for him. He knows if he and Lucy can work things out it will be better than any rehab. And so what if Lucy won't let him move into the house they both still own? He can always park a trailer in the yard and live there. He can also have company there, even a raven-haired woman who has a less-than-stellar reputation. If Lucy doesn't want him back right away, he's got things to work on. Several weeks after Ash shows up, a young man comes looking for him. Hardy Knox has tracked Ash all the way from Tennessee to Texas because he knows they would make a great song writing and performing duo. At first surprised to see him, Ash lets him hang around and work with him. They might be famous some day, and in the meantime Hardy can teach Jude something about music on the days Ash has him after school. The characters are fun, witty, caring and smart. Lucy loves Ash and wants things to work out while keeping in mind there is no quick fix for his alcoholism. She tries to be very careful of Jude's feelings while she works at giving Ash the benefit of the doubt. Ash knows he's messed up but truly wants to make things right again. His love of Lucy was his inspiration when song writing was going well. Fun, believable, sweet, and sassy-all come to mind after reading this book. Armchair Interviews says: This is the third of four books in this series, and you'll want the others.

I kept putting it off. I didn't want to finish this book because I knew I was going to miss Lucy and Dove and Judd and Lily and, well, everyone, even Ash, before I closed the back cover. So I delayed ending it. I read a magazine. I watched t.v. I took a shower. I read a few pages and then put the bookmark back in and tried to start another book, delaying the inevitable. Of course, I finally did read the last page and I do miss everyone in Mooney, Texas, but I will never regret reading one word. This is the best trilogy I've read (is there a 4th book in the series in the future?). For those of us who love reading about people and their lives, Heartbreak Town takes us to heaven. There's no formula in Ms. Moyer's writing. She's just good and brings the lives and feelings of others right into your world, mixing them in like people you'd meet in real life. This is NOT chick lit. This is not a silly story or a story that has no depth to it. This is Southern fiction at its best. Read all of them. In order. And have a wonderful time doing it. You'll never regret it.

Having lived in East Texas all my life (49 yrs) I know all these towns(Mooney may be fictional..but the others aren't) and feel like I know all the people...I read this book in 2 days and can't wait for the next one...my daughter(33)reads them also...she thinks the author followed me and her step-dad around the past 17yrs..LOL..sometimes I think so too. It is really silly but I have fallen so in love with Ash Farrell. Anywho...the book was wonderful, wonderful..the first two were also wonderful, wonderful... and I'm sure the next will be also....thank you Marsha for great reading...even if I do cry through them.