Unpacking Christmas
About the Book Unpacking Christmas
Book: Unpacking Christmas
Author: Beth K. Vogt
Genre: Contemporary/Women’s Fiction
Release date: November 2021
Johanna, Jillian, and Payton’s excitement about the Christmas holidays is upset when their parents announce they’re selling their long-time family home. Soon the sisters find themselves facing a variety of unexpected changes, including a serious health scare for their dad.
Instead of putting up holiday lights and decorating the family Christmas tree, the Thatcher sisters are helping pack up their childhood home. Along the way, they share treasured memories as they try to hold onto valued traditions, discovering the struggles they’ve endured pale in comparison to the love they share with each other.
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My Thoughts on Unpacking Christmas
Unpacking Christmas is a wonderful read. You get each sibling with their own lives and challenges and throw in the parents dropping a bomb. Not a literal bomb of course. Just more of we are selling the house and moving oh and we’ve already bought another house.
I really enjoyed this book. It read quickly and the characters were engaging. They made me want to stay in their world and see what was going to happen. Do know that this is part of a series and it will mention things that happened in previous books so you might get a bit lost if you haven’t read the others.
The girls are great and I really enjoyed getting to know them and their parents. I’m hoping to follow them a bit more. I mean who doesn’t want to go to England! And also a puppy!! I hope you add this to your TBR pile and read it this holiday season.
I have voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book which I received from Celebrate Lit. All views expressed are only my honest opinion. I was not required to write a positive review nor was I compensated in any other way. All opinions expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the FTC regulations.
About the Author of Unpacking Christmas
Beth K. Vogt believes God’s best often waits behind the doors marked “Never.” Having authored ten contemporary romance novels and novellas, The Best We’ve Been, the final book in Beth’s Thatcher Sisters Series with Tyndale House Publishers, released May 2020. Other books in the women’s fiction series include Things I Never Told You, which won the 2019 AWSA Award for Contemporary Novel of the Year, and Moments We Forget.
Beth is a 2016 Christy Award winner, a 2016 ACFW Carol Award winner, and a 2015 RITA® finalist. An established magazine writer and former editor of the leadership magazine for MOPS International, Beth blogs for Learn How to Write a Novel and The Write Conversation and also enjoys speaking to a writers groups and mentoring other writers. Visit Beth at bethvogt.com.
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What’s going on with the Thatcher sisters?
Readers have asked me this question so often since The Best We’ve Been, the third and what I considered the final book in the Thatcher Sisters Series, which was released in May 2020. In the series, Payton, Jillian, and Johanna each had their moment center stage. Some readers told me they’d come to understand and, yes, even like older sister Johanna. Quite a feat, considering how she annoyed readers in book one, Things I Never Told You.
I ended the series with the trio of sisters in a good place – the best they’d ever been. The circumstances of their lives weren’t all tied off in nice, neat bows, but then real life isn’t like that, is it? And as the author, I was content to leave the sisters there and let readers imagine what happened next.
And then 2020 disrupted life for all of us. For me? Writing didn’t happen. I promised myself I would dive back into the story in 2021. What better way than with a Christmas novella? So many readers love Christmas stories. And what better time to revisit Payton, Jillian, and Johanna and answer readers’ question: What’s going on with the Thatcher sisters?
I wasn’t sure myself. Part of the fun of writing is rediscovering well-known characters as you discover a new story. Set against the backdrop of Christmas? That was just an added blessing.
It’s been Christmas time for me throughout 2021 – a time to enjoy family traditions and face some unexpected changes. Welcome back to the Thatcher family!
Blog Stops for Unpacking Christmas
Book Reviews From an Avid Reader, November 8
Debbie’s Dusty Deliberations, November 9
Truth and Grace Homeschool Academy, November 9
Texas Book-aholic, November 10
Livin’ Lit, November 10
A Modern Day Fairy Tale, November 11
Splashes of Joy, November 11
Inklings and notions, November 12
lakesidelivingsite, November 13
Ashley’s Clean Book Reviews, November 14
Simple Harvest Reads, November 14 (Guest Review from Mindy Houng)
Where Faith and Books Meet, November 15
Genesis 5020, November 15
For Him and My Family, November 16
Happily Managing a Household of Boys, November 16
Because I said so — and other adventures in Parenting, November 17
SusanLovesBooks, November 17
deb’s Book Review, November 18
Spoken from the Heart, November 18
Locks, Hooks and Books, November 19
Christian Chick’s Thoughts, November 19
Musings of a Sassy Bookish Mama, November 20
Through the fire blogs, November 20
She Lives To Read, November 21
Giveaway for Unpacking Christmas
To celebrate her tour, Beth is giving away the grand prize package of a $50 Amazon gift card, a copy of Unpacking Christmas: A Thatcher Sisters Christmas Novella, and a set of the Thatcher Sisters Series!!
Be sure to comment on the blog stops for nine extra entries into the giveaway!
Click the link below to enter.
https://promosimple.com/ps/12f8b/unpacking-christmas-celebration-tour-giveaway
Beth K Vogt
Thanks for participating in the Celebrate Lit tour. I appreciate it.
Erin S.
Thanks for stopping by today. I really have loved this book and series!
Rita Wray
Sounds like a great read.
Erin S.
Thanks for stopping by today.
Deana
Thanks for sharing your review. I enjoyed reading it,
Erin S.
Thanks for stopping by today.
megan allen
I’m excited for Christmas stories ! Thanks for sharing!
Erin S.
It’s so much fun to read them in July too!
Judy
Thank you for the book details and review. This book sounds like it reads like a Christmas movie.
Erin S.
It does and would make a great movie!