{"id":16891,"date":"2014-05-12T19:40:17","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T00:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/?p=16891"},"modified":"2014-05-12T19:40:17","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T00:40:17","slug":"somebody-like-you-by-beth-k-vogt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/?p=16891","title":{"rendered":"Somebody Like You by Beth K. Vogt"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MY REVIEW:<\/strong><\/p>\n

A poignant story set in motion by the death of Haley’s husband Sam, “Somebody Like You” kept me reading far past my bedtime. It could be difficult to believe that a wife would not know that her husband had an identical twin and that she might fall in love with the twin after her husband’s death but in Beth Vogt’s new novel, it makes perfect sense.<\/p>\n

“Somebody Like You” is a story about regrets. Stephen regrets that he waited too late to reconcile with his brother Sam but hopes that in some way he can learn more about his brother’s last years by getting to know Sam’s widow. Haley regrets not telling Sam that they were expecting a child before his death. The discovery that Sam had an identical twin caught her off guard and she wanted to have nothing to do with Stephen; however Stephen’s persistence got past her walls and she soon became dependent on him. Frequent readers can see where this tale will end but the journey is filled with obstacles and seeming impossibilities.<\/p>\n

I loved this faith filled story of love, forgiveness, and reconciliation. I would recommend it to all who enjoy a romance with a message.<\/p>\n

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This book was provided for review by Howard Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nABOUT THE BOOK:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"SomebodyIn this beautifully rendered, affecting novel, a young widow\u2019s world is shattered when she meets her late husband\u2019s identical twin\u2014and finds herself caught between honoring her husband\u2019s memory and falling in love with his reflection.<\/p>\n

Haley\u2019s whirlwind romance and almost three-year marriage to Sam, an army medic, ends tragically when he is killed in Afghanistan. As she grapples with widowhood and the upcoming birth of her son, her attempts to create a new life for herself are ambushed when she arrives home one evening\u2014and finds her husband waiting for her. Did the military make an unimaginable mistake when they told her that Sam had been killed?<\/p>\n

After a twelve-year estrangement, Stephen hopes to make things right with his brother\u2014only to discover Sam died without revealing Stephen\u2019s existence to Haley. As Haley and Stephen struggle to navigate their fragile relationship, they are inexorably drawn to each other. Haley is unnerved by Stephen\u2019s uncanny resemblance to Sam, and Stephen struggles with the issue of Haley loving him as Stephen\u2014and not as some reflection of his twin. How can Haley and Stephen honor the memory of a man whose death brought them together\u2014and whose ghost could drive them apart?<\/p>\n

Somebody Like You reminds us that while we can\u2019t change the past, we have the choice\u2014and the power through God\u2014to change the future and start anew.
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\nABOUT THE AUTHOR:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"BethKVogt\"Beth K. Vogt is a nonfiction author and editor who said she\u2019d never write fiction. She\u2019s the wife of an air force physician who said she\u2019d never marry a doctor\u2014or anyone in the military. She\u2019s a mom of four who said she\u2019d never have kids. She\u2019s discovered that God\u2019s best often waits behind the doors marked \u201cNever.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MY REVIEW: A poignant story set in motion by the death of Haley’s husband Sam, “Somebody Like You” kept me reading far past my bedtime. It could be difficult to believe that a wife would not know that her husband had an identical twin and that she might fall in love with the twin after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,60,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-contemporary-fiction","category-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16891"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16904,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16891\/revisions\/16904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}