Lone Star Cafe

By: Lisa Wingate

Narrated by: Johanna Parker

Lisa Wingate, national best-selling author and inspirational speaker, delivers a novel that examines the paths we choose in life and the realization that we may be on the wrong one. One morning while running late to work, Laura Draper is ambushed by a future-determining call from her boyfriend that ends in an ultimatum. Suddenly, Laura finds herself at a crossroads and she is unsure of her next move.

©2004 Lisa Wingate (P)2006 Recorded Books, LLC

Light entertainment

This book was exactly what I needed at the time. Overall it is upbeat and entertaining. It doesn’t require much of the listener. It was a welcome distraction during a stressful time. The narration is good, the story is sweet but predictable.

good book meet great narrator

Joanna's voice makes this story. listening to her drew me in to Laura's perspective in a way the book alone did not.

don't get me wrong, the book alone was enjoyable. Yhe audio elevated it to the next level.

Good, but a lot of parallels to the first book.

36-year-old Heroine leaves a real city for a fictional Texas town. She has one or more siblings with children but she has no children. Her job involves a magazine. She has an ex boyfriend. Hero has a blue collar business. He left town for a while but came back. He won't talk about his tortured past, but everyone in town knows about it. The town has a number of quirky people. There's a café run by one or more senior ladies. One Heroine runs from goats and cows. The other one runs from bats. She tends to postpone her work in order to spend more time with Hero. She gets offered her dream job that would take her away from the small town and Hero. There's barbecue, and a quirky pitmaster. She watches the Cowboy Channel. There's even a conversation about how the lives of both Heroines changed in similar ways.

Laura is younger than former college mate Collie. In both books they’re 36, but in book two, enough time has passed that would make Collie 37 or 38.

I really like the narrator. She has a good singing voice.

Amazing story by an amazing Author!!

I loved this story like all of the rest I have listened to by Lisa Wingate!!

Enjoyable but very similar to book 1

I just finished Texas Cooking and this story is too similar. Wounded veteran, journalist city girl, and well to say anymore would be a spoiler. The narrator used the same voices and I wished she could do a better Texas drawl. One time she even made Graham sound a bit New Yorker. Anyway I enjoyed the love story in spite of it all