u/turniptoez

I honestly don't recommend the book, there was SO much talk of spirituality and her dating life before she was producing which was incredibly boring and embarrassing.

The tea is that the night that the episode aired where Madison eliminates herself while they're sitting by Uluru with all the flies swarming (this is my memory, not in the book lol), Peter and Julie were watching the episode at Barb's house with another couple, all laying on the couches and she said they felt like teenagers. The other couple spent the night, and after the episode Julie went up to sleep in Jack's room (he wasn't there, Barb made the bed up for her) and Peter was going into his room to sleep, but then he gestured for Julie to join him. She said she went in, he closed the door, and what happened in there is only for her and Peter to know. She later says they had sex then, and one more time.

I'm sure Peter isn't happy because in the span of a few months he had sex with Hannah Ann, Julie, Hannah Brown, some other girl we've heard about, and then Kelley. I think it's all whatever, but this is the juiciest part of the book. It was pretty boring otherwise!

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I was browsing through NetGalley and saw this...it sounds like Hannah has taken what happened to her with Jed's ex/her new SIL and made it into a fiction book. She has written two books before with a co-author (honestly I tried to read both but couldn't get into them, but I'm going to give this a try). Thought I'd share here, here's the publisher's blub below:

From New York Times bestselling author and Bachelorette fan-favorite Hannah Brown, a rom-com beach read full of witty banter, emotional authenticity, and female friendship—perfect for fans of Emily Henry's Funny Story and Carley Fortune's One Golden Summer.
  Perfectionist and former pageant girl Nikki Bennet is looking forward to relaxing at her family’s lake house in Georgia for the Fourth of July. Even though it’s been two years since she was on the reality dating show LovedBy, she still hasn’t recovered from finding out on national TV that her fiancé, Aaron, had been dating another woman all along.

But when she arrives home, her little brother makes a surprise announcement: he’s engaged to his girlfriend, Cara—the “other woman” Aaron had been seeing behind Nikki’s back. And what’s worse? They intend to have the wedding this summer, right here at the lake.

Hoping to stop her brother from making the biggest mistake of his life, Nikki discovers an unlikely ally in Cara’s brother, Nate. While their bond begins as shared shock over their siblings’ rushed nuptials, it quickly deepens into something more. Nikki knows Nate is completely wrong for her—he’s a laidback country boy, she’s a driven LA influencer—and yet he’s a welcome distraction from the mess of her love life… as well as the growing sense that her family's been hiding something from her, something she may not be ready to hear.

But as fireworks light up the water, can Nikki and Nate really stay focused on preventing this wedding? Or will all the reasons they’re wrong for each other lead to an even more unlikely love story—their own?  

I reallllly want the lyrics to go "maybe we're more alike than we'd like to think", that is all. Love the song love the album, can't wait to go to the show.