Rating: ⭐⭐⭐✨⬜
Title: God Bless This Mess: Learning to Live and Love Through Life's Best (and Worst) Moments
Author: Hannah Brown
Genre: Memoir
Setting: Alabama / Los Angeles, California
Month Read: April 2022
Book Type: Audiobook
Publication: 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages: 277
TRIGGER WARNING-
Sexual Content / Alcohol / Murder / Grief
No Spoiler Summary:
God Bless This Mess is a memoir by former Bachelorette and Dancing with the Stars champion, Hannah Brown. The book details her life from childhood through the beginning of the pandemic in 2020. She discusses pageantry, school, dating, her time in the Bachelor Franchise, and her time on Dancing with the Stars. Filled with fun Hannah quips you've come to love, and filled with a lot of emotion, trauma, and anxiety, you learn who Hannah Brown really is.
Review:
I'm really surprised that there is so much to Hannah Brown you don't know, especially when she's been a public figure you've followed for years. I loved learning about her family life, her early dating history, and all the work she's done publicly and behind the scenes since her time on my tv screen.
This book contains a lot of juicy tids about the men on her season, and I'm not shocked to find that the majority of her final 3 are sort of trash humans. Hearing her side of how Tyler and Peter treated her after their time on her season really made my heart hurt for her, and it really shines a light on how bad the lead should have a therapist during the filmings of their season.
Nothing is really off the table in this book, and I loved how absolutely candid she is. I thought this book would be more religion heavy, and as someone non-religious I was concerned about listening to this--- but I ended up loving how thoughtful and honest she is, and how many times she's sort of fallen in and out of her faith. It's inspiring in ways to see how much she has really fought to be who she is, and for what she wants to belive in for herself.
If you're a fan of Hannah, or of the Bachelor franchise, you should definitely read this book. I thought it was a great inside look, and loved that she was the audio narrator.
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