Moving on has never been harder—or so perfectly unpredictable… will allow her to enjoy revisiting her favorite travel-writing destinations, she’s wrong: her PR whiz is too consumed with his own goals to consider her needs.
Mitch Mathis has relied on discipline to achieve his goals, and with his new firm’s success riding on Peyton’s book launch, he must keep her on task. They’re here for business, not pleasure. And Mitch won’t let unbridled desire harm his professional reputation—not again.
When frustrated expectations and attraction throw the tour into chaos, it challenges everything Mitch and Peyton believe about themselves, life, and love, forcing these opposites to consider whether they can embrace the change they need to grow.
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Logan Prescott has documented every step of his sister Peyton’s cancer journey from diagnosis to treatment to surgery. Peyton has added her feelings, fears and despair to the emotional memoir. Her goal for the book is to raise money for cancer research. Logan was Peyton’s lifeline during her two year battle—and she must take a huge step without him.
Peyton’s PR person, Mitch Mathis, is going to accompany her the European book tour. Peyton understands the importance of the tour on several levels. She needs the good press generated by her author speaking engagements to ensure book sales and she needs to move forward with her life.
Peyton and Mitch are total opposites; at first glance they do not seem to have anything in common. Before her diagnosis, Peyton travelled all over the world and was a well-known blogger. Mitch is a workaholic and appeared to be more concern with texting, hitting the best seller list and working than in Peyton or the tour.
I liked that Jamie Beck presented Peyton has a flawed character. She was not perfect before her surgery- she made mistakes and hurt people she loved- or after it. The author did a superb job including Peyton’s insecurities about her body image. As a cancer survivor, this resonated with me. You are not the same after cancer—your body has changed, you have scars, you dread having your mammogram and you wonder about stray cancer cells. I loved that Peyton grew stronger, more self-confident as she realizes sharing her story has positive effect on her readers.
Jamie Beck explored both Mitch and Peyton’s strengths and weakness. I wasn’t a fan of Mitch until he admitted that he was too busy to read her book—which devastated Peyton. This story choice allowed the readers to discover the reasons why Mitch could not read Peyton’s story and allowed the author to show a compassionate, caring side to the workaholic PR man. Peyton struggled with reliving her experience on tour.
This is one of my favorite quotes:
Thanks for giving up weeks of your life to walk me through my first – and last—European book tour. For making me take responsibility for this work when all I wanted to run from it. I might not write another book as long as I live, but somehow doing all of this has made me feel a little stronger than when we started. More like a survivor, than a victim. You have made this experience memorable Mitch.
The Wonder of Now holds a special place on my keeper shelf. I loved the characters, identified with their struggles and enjoyed reading their journey. Jamie Beck’s descriptive writing allows the reader to imagine the sights and taste the food in Italy and France. The honest conversations between Logan, Peyton and Mitch bring the reader into the story immediately. Peyton’s step by step journey towards recovery kept me reading. Loved the romance that developed between Mitch and Peyton-it was perfectly paced and poignant.
I highly recommend The Wonder of Now-it’s got all the feels. It’s an emotional, heartbreaking story which showcases the importance of family, the power of forgiveness, the struggles of recovery and –most of all-hope for the future.
I received an Advanced Reader Copy of this book from the publisher and am voluntarily reviewing it.
A touching book of hope, heartache, happiness and love after breast cancer. Peyton Prescott seemed so real to me in this book with everything she had gone through, her emotions, her fears and trying to make new dreams. I especially liked the message of hope for the person going through cancer and to the family and friends supporting that person. I think this series and this book in particular are one one of Jamie Beck’s best ones. She really touched on Peyton’s raw emotions about the cancer returning, about a physical relationship with Mitch, and about what she was going to do next. I also liked how Peyton redeemed her character in this book and finally forgave herself for what she had done to her best friend in the previous book. There was hope for their new relationship. While reading this book I could not help thinking of my sister who is a breast cancer survivor too. I received an advance copy of this book and I willingly chose to write an honest review. Beautiful story.
The Wonder of Now by Jamie Beck such an emotional story. A woman who wants to move forward and a man who only wants to succeed and keep her in the past. What a heartbreaking and heartwarming story. Peyton Prescott wrote a memoir on her battle with cancer to share with others, but now she wants to live in the present. But her PR rep wants her to give her tour everything she has. This means living with the past over and over again.
Peyton was strong, determined and honest with her struggles. Mitch wanted to do his job and not let anything interfere, but he could not deny his feelings for Peyton. Together they learn more about each other and cannot fight the connection they feel. Their journey was not an easy one and will both gut you and warm your heart.
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I have been highly anticipating the release of The Wonder of Now. Author Jamie Beck did not disappoint in this emotional and heartbreaking story of forgiveness and healing. Ms. Beck has created beautiful characters who are flawed, but that is what makes them feel so real and the story raw.
Peyton Prescott hasnt always made the right choice. When she is diagnosed with breast cancer she begins to reevaluate her choices. In the Wonder of Now Peyton is traveling on a book tour for the release of her memoir. She is not sure she is ready to bear her soul to the world. However her publicist, Mitch, is there to guide and support her. Will his support be just what she need?
This is the final book in the Sanctuary Sound Series. While it could be read as a stand alone I feel reading the first two books would be best. I recieved and ARC from Netgalley and this is my honest opinion.
I’ve been quite curious about Peyton from the beginning of this series. What motivated her to date her best friend’s ex-fiancé? What could she have possibly been thinking? Well, I didn’t exactly get the answers I was looking for in this story. Yet, I found that I got enough to know that Peyton is not as selfish and terrible as she first seemed. Or, at least she’s not that person now.
Mitch and Peyton have an instant connection and the author does a beautiful job of keeping that connection throughout the story. Their relationship, first professional and later personally, has many ups and downs. Somehow, through it all, that connection I spoke about kept me very optimistic that they could work through anything. For the most part, they did.
I didn’t get immersed in this story as deeply as I did with the previous two books, but it was still compelling and gave me a lot of feels. I was cheering for Peyton and Mitch both to get some kind of closure or understanding from their moms and families. At the same time I was waiting for them to start to understand one another…or at least really open themselves to their differences. I wasn’t disappointed on that point.
There was a bit of time that Peyton waffled on the line of annoying. She wasn’t expressing her needs and true feelings about the book tour to Mitch yet felt justified in getting upset and acting out in some situations. She’s not only eventually told to suck it up and speak up, but she starts to view things from more than her own perspective. All of that helps to redeem her in my eyes.
I’m hoping we will see at least one more book in this series in order for Ben to get his HEA. Even though this book didn’t live up to the other two in the series, it’s still an amazing read with a lot of emotions. Trust me, have some tissues ready with this one!
**I received an ARC of this book courtesy of Net Galley and the publisher. All opinions expressed in this review are my own and given freely**