ABOUT THE BOOK

Jillian Thatcher has spent most of her life playing the family peacemaker, caught in the middle between her driven, talented older sister and her younger, spotlight-stealing twin sisters. Then on the night of her engagement party, a cancer diagnosis threatens to once again steal her chance to shine. Now, Jillian’s on the road to recovery after finally finishing chemo and radiation, but residual effects of the treatment keep her from reclaiming her life as she’d hoped. And just when her dreams might be falling into place, a life-altering revelation from her husband sends her reeling again. Will Jillian ever achieve her own dreams, or will she always be “just Jillian,” the less-than Thatcher sister? Can she count on her sisters as she tries to step into a stronger place, or are they stuck in their childhood roles forever?

Book: Moments We Forget Beth Vogt Author: Beth Vogt

Genre: Contemporary fiction, woman’s fiction Release Date: May 7, 2019

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MY BOOK REVIEW:

Beth Vogt's "Moments We Forget" is the second book in the Thatcher Sister's series. We are taken into the lives of three sisters who are working on reconciling their relationships.

Jillian the middle sister who is the peacemaker and usually the bearer of bad news. She is beat breast cancer but now she is dealing with marriage struggles with her newly formed marriage. She tries to keep the family together, but it seems to only cause one big fight after another.

Each sister is facing really tough life challenges, everything from unemployment, failed cancer treatments.

This is not an easy book to read. It brought up my family. My mom is the one to try to make sure the family is together, but always ends up making someone unhappy. Family is work and this book does a great job of allowing us to see the struggles of families and doesn't sugar coat it. Vogt does a great job of taking its time and not speeding through time. She wrote some the book in the first person and some chapters are written in the third person.

I suggest reading the first book of the series first because it took me a little bit to figure out what happened.

The message of the book is not to give up on the people you love. Forgiveness is important because you never know what the other person is going through. You also never know when the person will pass away. This is a well written story. I am looking forward to book #3.

Given an advanced readers copy of this book for reviewing purposes from Celebrate Lit. All opinions are my own.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Beth K. Vogt is a nonfiction author and editor who said she’d never write fiction. She’s the wife of an Air Force family physician (now in solo practice) who said she’d never marry a doctor—or anyone in the military. She’s a mom of four who said she’d never have kids. Now Beth believes God’s best often waits behind the doors marked “Never.” A women’s fiction novelist, Beth’s first novel for Tyndale House Publishers, Things I Never Told You, released May 2018. Beth is a 2016 Christy Award winner, a 2016 ACFW Carol Award winner, and a 2015 RITA® finalist. Her 2014 novel, Somebody Like You, was one of Publishers Weekly‘s Best Books of 2014. A November Bride was part of the Year of Wedding series by Zondervan. Having authored nine contemporary romance novels or novellas, Beth believes there’s more to happily-ever-after than the fairy tales tell us. An established magazine writer and former editor of the leadership magazine for MOPS International, Beth blogs for Novel Rocket and also enjoys speaking to writers’ groups and mentoring other writers. She lives in Colorado with her husband, Rob, who has adjusted to discussing the lives of imaginary people, and their youngest daughter, Christa, who loves to play volleyball and enjoys writing her own stories. Connect with Beth at bethvogt.com.

MORE FROM BETH:

“A sister is like yourself in a different movie, a movie that stars you in a different life.”

Deborah Tannen (1945-), sociologist

I’m launching Moments We Forget, book two in the Thatcher Sisters series, and I’ve just turned in the final book in the series. I’d love to share book three’s title with you, but I don’t know what it is. (Of course, book three might have a final title by the time you read this—that’s part of the fun of prerelease deadlines.)

One thing I do know: the theme of “Little Women gone wrong” is woven through all of the books . . . thanks to the Thatcher sisters: Payton, Pepper, Jillian, and Johanna.

Sisters, be they real or imaginary, can be complicated.

Of course, there are sisters who have close relationships. They “get” each other and love doing life together.

But then there are the sister relationships that are like mismatched socks. Or those expensive jeans you loved in the store, but when you bring them home, they never quite live up to those moments in the dressing room.

Such are the Thatcher sisters. Johanna, Jillian, Payton, and Pepper grew up in the same family. They’re all tall. They love Broncos football and board games. But in so many ways their lives are like different movies because they each made different choices. Choices that changed and separated them. Moments We Forget continues to explore whether the Thatcher sisters can find a way to understand each other enough to bridge the distance between them.

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