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Over the Moon at the Big Lizard Diner (Texas Hill Country Series #3)

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This is my first Lisa Wingate book, but it won't be my last. The cover and title intrigued me, so I thought I'd give it a try, and WOW, I'm hooked. I read it in less than twenty-four hours, and my only regret was that the fun was over too soon. This is the type of book that transports you so completely, you're surprised (and a little disappointed) to wake up in your own world when you reach the end. The settings were beautiful, and the characters were real people with real problems and challenges in their lives. I not only felt that I knew them, I felt that I could BE one of them. The book also had a spiritual side that was uplifting, but at the same time made me think about life and what is important.

Overall, I laughed, I cried, I loved spending time with the residents of this crazy Texas town. Now I'm off to order the rest of her books! GREAT READ.

This is my favorite of Ms. Wingate's novels and I've read them all. It is funny--very funny--and the romance is very special from the start. Lindsey is hard to like at times but she grows and changes, a control freak who falls in love and gives up control.

Best of all is Mr. Grits.

I am a devoted Lisa Wingate fan ~~ I have read all of her books now and cannot wait for her newest one! This one happened to be out at a bookstore I was browsing through when finished with a doctor's appointment and naturally, I grabbed it! Once again, Wingate didn't disappoint me!

This one focuses on Lindsey, one of the trio that has dominated the Texas books. Lindsey is Laura's twin and Collie's best friend. Lindsey had just sent her daughter off to Mexico to spend a summer with her dad, Lindsey's ex-husband. Lost and bereft of companionship, Lindsey traveled down to Texas to see Laura. Together, Laura and Collie hatched a plan to get Lindsey out of her rut ~~ and sent her to Collie's cousin's horse ranch undercover to find out what happened to the missing dinosaur tracks. Taking a class in horse psychology, Lindsey finds out what matters in life and falls in love with Zach, one of the locals.

It is a fun book ~~ a fast read and enjoyable. Lindsey is the more put-together of the three and more organized. Laura and Collie are featured briefly in this book but it's a focus on Lindsey and Zach. It has a bit of folklore in there and a bit of history and it's just fun reading! Perfect for those lazy summer days coming up! Once you've read Wingate's books, you're always drawn back to her characters over and over again!

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I liked this book. Know that before reading further.

However, this book is part of a series and they are all the same. Collie, Laura and Lindsey are best friends. The first book, Texas Cooking, featues Collie as the main character. The second, Lone Star Cafe', features Laura and now Over The Moon at the Big Lizard Diner features Lindsay.

In all three books, the main character (Collie, Laura or Lindsey) ends up in Texas on a job that was to take them there only a few days. But in each book, they met a cowboy that was not their type, fell in love after a few days anyway, then they were offered a beyond belief dream job that they had been waiting for their whole lives.

At that point, in each book, the main character had to decide on living their dream or if this cowboy was their soul mate.

All three of the books are good as a stand alone. But read together, one after the other, and it is like the movie Ground Hog Day where the same thing happens over and over and over.......

I loved this book - as I've loved ALL of Lisa Wingate's books. As usual, I never want the stories to end. I am a devoted fan who has started a small following here in Pennsylvania. Lisa Wingate's books are not only fun to read, but the touch the heart and comfort the soul.

Lisa, keep on writing - and tell us what happens to Lindsay, Laura, Collie and their families!

Paleontologist cataloguer and single mom Lyndsey Attwood misses her daughter, who is spending the summer with her father, Geoff, the first time the absent dad has been with his eight years old daughter. Her twin sister Laura recognizes that her sibling is lonely so asks her to spend time with in San Saline, Texas. Knowing she cannot face her walls without Sydney, Lyndsey takes leave and travels from Denver.

In Texas, Laura's reporter pal Collie Collins (see TEXAS COOKING), asks Lindsey to go undercover by pretending to attend a horse psychology seminar in order to help her solve a mystery involving missing dinosaur tracks on a local ranch. Lindsey meets and begins to fall in love with former veterinarian cowboy Zach Truitt; he reciprocates. However, she has doubts about relationships with males having been burned once before

The latest Big Lizard Bottoms tale is a fun Texas contemporary romance with a mystery subplot that never really matters as the missing dinosaur tracks takes a back seat to the relationship drama. The story line is driven by the antics of the zany secondary cast, who help the Rocky Mountain visitor learn about Texas high life where trust is more important than anything else whether it is with horse or human.

Harriet Klausner

Love Lisa Wingate's style. I live in Central Texas and am familiar with some of the hill country local color. Her stories are enchanting and capture the fun and "only in Texas" out of the way places that tourists often miss.
Romantic, funny and always a touching story. This is the third in the Hill Country series and I've read "Texas Cooking", "Lone Star Cafe" and now "Over the Moon at the Big Lizard Cafe" and loved each one. If you like old fashioned romance, Texas humor and a good read you'll love these books.

This story was very believeable and set in a location not for from where I live. Makes the story much more interesting to me. thanks to Lisa Wingate for another excellent book. Keep up the good work, Lisa.

I enjoyed this third book in the Texas Hill Country series by Lisa Wingate.

In this book, Lindsey Attwood, sister of Laura Draper, is very stymied and unhappy with her life back in Denver Colorado. She has a young daughter Sydney, 8-years-old that is off to spend her first summer in Mexico with a Dad who never wanted to know her until now, strangely enough. Geoff and Lindsey divorced bitterly once Lindsey became pregnant, and he did not want the child. So ever since that time, Lindsey has kept herself and Sydney in a "closet," so to speak in their tiny apartment with nothing exciting happening.

But there begins a turning point in Lindsey's life when she is called on a mission by her sister Laura to help recover stolen dinosaur tracks. And since Lindsey is a skilled palentologist, this is her field. So she drives 1,000 miles to Texas on Jubilee Ranch. She will also have to pose as a horse psychology patient, and it is there that she meets Zach, whom she is attracted to instantly. And whether she likes it or not, she can't stop herself from falling in love.

In horse psychology class, Lindsey finds out about her relationships to people through horses. It takes awhile before she loosens up to a horse, Sleepy, and can put life in perspective.

That is not the only thing though. Never having been a great animal lover, she encounters a stray dog, that automatically takes to her. Mr. Grits is a dog nobody loves-except maybe Lindsey actually will? The story tells this as you read.

Toward the end of the book, Sydney's father brings her back to the ranch early. In shock at the vacation being cut short for Sydney, Lindsey wonders why and finds out that Geoff ran off again from his new wife because she was pregnant. Fatherhood was not in his plans-but there is a single event that changes all that and Geoff changes.

Lindsey is truly afraid of new steps in her life, and once Syd comes back to her, she is all set to drive back to Colorado-for sure. She is afraid to take a leap of faith in new life challenges that will change life perhaps for the better-like it was meant to be.

I read this book about 1 year ago and I still think of it. Was one of the best books I ever read, it puts you right into the story. In my humble opinion it would make a great Hallmark movie.