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God Bless This Mess: Learning to Live and Love Through Life's Best (and Worst) Moments by Hannah Brown

6 reviews

kalynallis's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Death, Sexual content, Eating disorder, and Child death

sderrig's review

hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Body shaming, Bullying, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Alcoholism, Addiction, Violence, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Racial slurs, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

bpag314's review against another edition

lighthearted medium-paced

2.75

This book wasn't spectacularly written or even particularly full of the sort of Bachelor gossip you might expect. However, despite this I did enjoy the book (thought to be fair I am a long standing Bachelor and Hannah Brown fan). 

It was enjoyable learning more about where Hannah Brown comes from and hearing her perspective on things. For some the book may have been a bit "Jesus-y" but I appreciated that aspect of it. 

I'd only recommend reading it if you are already a fan of hers though.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Fatphobia, Body shaming, Sexism, Grief, and Death

jessgreads's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.5

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Child death, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Body shaming, Grief, Religious bigotry, Alcohol, and Cursing

theworldisyourlibrary's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

If you want The Bachelor tea, there’s a little bit, but it’s not the purpose of the book. If you wanna get to know the real person, Hannah Brown, then pick up the book. 

I listen to the audiobook and it was good. Her narration was engaging, I didn’t feel bored listening to her story. It had a good flow. 

She opened up about a lot of struggles from her childhood, unresolved issues and traumas she had buried down and her faith. She was very vulnerable and open throughout the book and listening to her story you get a better picture of the person that was on your TV screen that you though you knew. 

The book also serves as a reminder that people that go on the shows are real people going through the same ups & downs we go through life, only theirs is televised.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Cancer, Mental illness, Death, Grief, and Murder

rillastone's review

inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Child death, and Murder

Moderate: Body shaming and Mental illness