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It's the deep-dive!! We go in-depth and behind-the-scenes of Nobody Like Us chapter by chapter to dish about our favorite moments, the construction behind the novel, and the depth of Luna & Donnelly's romance. It's nearly 4 hours, and we hope you enjoy this big peek inside the creation of the final book in the Like Us series!! We loved writing this book, and so we had lots to talk about, particularly Luna & Donnelly's romance arcs and their relationships with friends & family. We don't spoil anything in the future, but we do touch upon some little Cobalt Empire tidbits as well. 

Thank you for listening to this behemoth of a podcast! Happy Listening!! 

SPOILER WARNING: There are MAJOR SPOILERS for Nobody Like Us in this podcast. We highly suggest reading that novel before finishing this behind-the-scenes look into the novel.

RESOURCES: For a complete list of all the podcasts, check out this master list of podcasts

Books Mentioned:

Like Us Series

Damaged Like Us

Lovers Like Us

Alphas Like Us

Tangled Like Us

Sinful Like Us

Headstrong Like Us

Charming Like Us

Wild Like Us

Fearless Like Us

Infamous Like Us

Misfits Like Us

Unlucky Like Us

Nobody Like Us

Some Kind of Perfect

Dishonestly Yours

The Raging Ones

The Last Hope 

Bonus Scenes Mentioned: 

Calloway Couture Fashion Ad (Rose Calloway)

The Night of the Donnellys (Maximoff)

Homesick at Yale: Part One (Donnelly)

Homesick at Yale: Part Two (Donnelly)

Podcasts Mentioned: 

Christmastime at the Lake House🎄Throughout the Addicted & Like Us Series

All About Unlucky Like Us - Part One

All About Unlucky Like Us - Part Two

TV Shows Mentioned: 

Battlestar Galactica 

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Comments

shi luvs st.cobalt

Omg! I can’t wait to listen to this tomorrow! 🥹🤎

Ellieeeee

CHONKYYYY PODCASTTTT, Thankyou angels for taking your time 🩷💚

Melinda

Diving deep! Here I go! Thank you so much!😊

Brianna

Can’t wait to listen!!

Andrea

“This will be at least 2 hours” try double that 😭 can’t wait to listen!

Meagan

Am I going to cry listening to this? Dumb question, of course I will. Probably shouldn’t listen to it at work I also want all the mundane. I want to see Luna and Donnelly buy the Volvo! What color is it? What style? I want it all

Krista & Becca Ritchie

😂 Lolol!! We should really never try to estimate anything (or we should over-estimate!) 🤣🤣

Angelina (Charlies version) ♟️

I’m so excited to listen to this!! Thank you for taking four hours!! To talk about this 🫶🏼💗 I’m so glad you guys cut so little!! I would love a buying the volvo bonus scene soo much!!

Krista & Becca Ritchie

The further we go, the more tongue-tied we get (be warned!) but it was ALL worth it to discuss this chunky baby!! We did forget to mention one thing from the epilogue, so we're going to open the Roses & Thorns podcasts with it (which is coming tomorrow). If there's any other topics we missed that you wanted us to touch upon, let us know here and we'll try to fit it into the next podcast too! xoxo

Olivia

No way almost 4 hours🤩🤩🤩 that’s amazing

hannah

I love that you want to write all the little details because I WANT ALL the “stupid” “mundane” details too! 🥰❤️ You will always have my reading support!

Angelina (Charlies version) ♟️

WE NEEDDD A lo POV bonus scene when he finds out moffy knew first and then a subsequent discussion with ryke about it!! I’ve always thought about how much everyone depends on moffy and further exploring that would be so interesting!!

Arrow

Almost 4 hours!!! You guys are too good to us!

Abby (Eliot’s version)

Oh man my heart is already broken from the series ending and I don’t know if I can handle this deep dive into this beauty but I need a good happy cry 🥹 Can’t wait to hear all the little details about this chunk monster that I love so so much 💚👽🤟🏻 Lunnelly is so special to me and it ended perfectly as their love was truly written in the stars 💫 this is going to epic and I’m excited to dive into all your thoughts on the book and memories while writing it! 💕✨

Arrow

***spoiler alert Just got to the part of the podcast about the O’Malley reveal. I was one of the readers who had worked up like 10 different theories about this. I wanted to say that this was not disappointing at all. Mostly because some of my theories had Donnelly related to other characters. And I actually liked it a lot more that Donnelly’s found family was not related to him. It made his relationship with Farrow and Lo in particular that much more touching. Anything else would have detracted from that and may not have been as satisfying of a conclusion to the series.

Danielle Newman

Farrow would've bet on Luna. he's the only one that always bets on the hales

Andrea

Thank you so much for confirming that particular couple (at least like 99%) I neeeed it and I think their chemistry is way too good to pass up

jupiter

powered thru that so fast 😭😭😭idk if i even retained it all omg smn take notes for the gc pls

shi luvs st.cobalt

I was just wondering if Tom remembers telling Eliot and Luna about his secret crush (since he was pretty intoxicated at the time)? 👀 I haven't had the chance to listen to this podcast yet, so l apologize if this is something that was discussed! I wanted to ensure that l mentioned this before the Roses & Thorns podcast was filmed, and I didn't know if I would get the chance to finish this podcast before then! 😅

Hailey

We haven’t met Tom’s love interest? WE HAVN’T MET TOMS LOVE INTEREST??? YOU MEAN ALL MY THEORIES AND SHIPS WERE FOR NOTHINGGGGGG 😭😭 I swear he’s my fav cobalt yet he’s the only one I can never rly guess on 😭 also Phoenix is important 😭😭 good golly im so confused 😭😭

Sascha

it’s ok becca’s husband and krista’s fiancé not everyone can be paul donnelly reading all of his girl’s writing 🤷🏼‍♀️😂

Lia Martinez

Harriet is 5’ 1” omggggg

Olga T

OMG please tell me that you are going to write a bonus scene for the Calloway couture runway with the Cobalt boys I'm literally begging <3

Ellen

I found they were a bit giddy about Spencer. So she’s going to yale in Connecticut. Not NY like Xander. They’re not certain she’ll be back. But earlier in the podcast where they talk about new people being described in looks and background etc, they’re usually because they’re there to stay. (Btw I hate that for Jeffra!) when they talk about Spencer they say that they really were precise (rewriting) about how they described her in the book. So yeah, that might as well have confirmed that she’s coming back and being someone’s love interest (must be still Xander’s) right?!!

Ellen

But still, don’t you think they would sometimes snoop around, what kind of romantic gestures or other things they would like because they write about them so much. Or family and friends (or random people) asking them as partners about things in kbr s books 😅

Jess

Omg the confirmation of Beckett, jo and Leo! I know you guys get a fair amount of hate on this ship or at least used to and tbh I wasn’t huge abt the idea at first but that was probably bc of the lack of info on Leo cuz now I’m all for it! But I do hope it’s a proper three way relationship cuz as much as I love sulli banks and Akara I wasn’t huge in how it was both of the guys there for sulli romantically and not each other aswell whereas I can see Beckett and Leo having a romantic relationship with each other as well as jo

Ellen

We’ll not see Charlie and Roxanne in 1 scene together before burn bright. So no bonus scene with both of them. But possible we’ll see a glimpse of her from someone else, without Charlie. But I think this means that we willll see them interact in burn bright! 🎉 at least that’s what I hear out of it!

Ellen

I ravaged the podcast today. Thanks so much! It was like our group discussions on the spoiler chat and then some! What I really am interested in is how of when they got the 3 New York guys to stop, who harassed Luna with calls and texts. I feel like they would have found another way to get to her, now she has another phonenumber. And especially since we know 1 name of one of the 3 guys (although o don’t recall his name right now). I feel like this is something a cobalt brother would solve. As did Charlie with the Rochester at the shore side restaurant. Will we see this being resolved in Burning Bright or will we see it in a bonus scene some day?

Ellen

I loved how you described Ben being the obvious and best pov to start the cobalt empire books with. Starting a series and being to be able to read it stand alone. With him being young and while reading from his pov really having the feeling all the other guys are so much older. I’m so looking forward to BB. Thanks!

Ellieeeee

Just imagineeeee her next to 6”5 Ben 😭🥹

Prue

I just finished reading NLU and now that I'm listening to the podcast I'm like, “BRB I'm going to reread it!” 🤣🥹😻

Angelina (Charlies version) ♟️

The way that Luna compared donnelly always hearing her to spider man and seeing light in the dark is actually the cutest thing ever I love them so damn much 😭😭😭

Krista & Becca Ritchie

@Ellen - Oh they listen to us talk about the characters ALLLLLL the time! So that's kinda like snooping (but maybe they have snooped before!) 😂 They definitely know who these characters are 😁✨

Ellen

Good for you both! And them ;-) I imagine you both imagine and discuss some scene or character reference during real life events. Them being, “there they go again!” But subconsciously, even without you both there, them referencing these characters as well 😅

Lauren

I just realized the first Moffy/Jane/Sulli/Luna apartment burned and the second one flooded 😭

fabi

im sorry but i ship Tom and Leo sooo bad🥲 but imma trust the process haha😅, loved this podcast🖤🖤

Elara

Maybe Phoenix has a brother? 😈😅

Angelina (Charlies version) ♟️

In my delusional head spencer and Xanders ship has sailed and also we need a cobalt runway bonus scene!!! I’m so happy they confirmed Beckett Jo Leo because the heat of that ship is wayyy too good to pass up

Angelina (Charlies version) ♟️

It makes so much sense why ya’ll are my fav authors because I too love it messy and I want and need the chaos honestly 🤣🤣

Lauren

I must have missed the ULU podcast because I didn’t know the origins of BASS. Love that parallel for you all and the Thebulan saga 👽💚 I’ve been wondering about BASS since MLU because the show seems so well flushed out but I couldn’t find anything about it online! I did kind of think that Human Him, Cosmic Her would eventually get published for Halway Comics which was even more sad for me when her fics leaks and she deleted them because I realized it would probably never be formally published 😭

Lauren

Donnelly’s dad letting him go was such great resolution as a fan because Sean is the first “bad parent” of any of the Addicted/Like Us characters that realized how negative they were to their kid and fully backed away. Thinking of Jonathan Hale/Samantha Calloway/Edward Keene

Lauren

If LiLo taking in Easton parallels Garrison, then EastonVada = Gillow? 🤔

Arwen

PRAYING for another Lunnelly book in the future

Jojo

I really do need that companion novel. NLU was so much and somehow just not enough 💚✨

Kelly.

You said that if you didn’t finish NLU for release in January you would’ve had to wait until November. Does that mean the Cobalt Empire will be released in November/ December?

Itzel Rdz

I’m so happy you kind of confirmed BeckettLeoJo their chemistry is amazing I can’t envision a better pairing for Beckett their like Marrow to me in the sense they belong together. I cannot wait for his book

Sarah

Not gonna lie, and I know it doesn’t matter but the whole Leo being added with Jo and Beckett kind of made me want to cry. I really enjoyed their banter and just them, I felt like Leo took away from them and didn’t add to them as a couple. Oh well, what are you gonna do? I’m still gonna read the books. Tom & Leo, that was something I could get behind though.

Sarah

Will The Cobalt Empire be in dual pov or multi?

Annette

Oscar is going to lose his mind when he finds out about his BABY sister being with two men.

Anastassia Archibald

I am foaming at the mouth over the Leo/Beckett/Joanna confirmation!!! this is everything I have been dreaming for lets gooooo

Jana

As a kitsulletti stan, I am so pumped for another trio ❤️❤️❤️

Thaís Brito

I agree 100%. I’m gonna read the book anyway, but Leo/beckett/jo is just not interesting to me. What’s the conflict? Sulli has already gone through every criticism there is regarding a triad. Rose and Connor, unlike Ryke, could not care less if their son is in a poly relationship. The other Cobalts feel the same way. I mean, the rest of the Hales and Meadows are completely fine at this point too. So what’s the issue here? Joana and Beckett already have chemistry and possible roadblocks to create tension and conflict in their relationship. What Leo is gonna bring to the table? “Oh he’s Beckett’s rival! Both guys want to be number 1! They’re gonna hate-fuck!”. So? That is it? Even their interactions are just plain idiotic 🫠 now, if Leo became a villain THAT would be interesting imo

hannah

I love that she’s tiny compared to Ben! If they end up being love interests! 🤣🥰

hannah

A book about Ripley future would be so fun to explore! I know that’s so far off and probably won’t happen, but y’all’s quick mention of him and his birthday dad got me thinking!

Sarah

I agree with both of you 100%! I’ll still read the book without a doubt I just don’t feel like there would a) be two triads in one family and b) I like him with Jo and I think Leo is unnecessary. Jo and Beckett already have amazing banter and everything I feel like it should be left that way. Also, Tom and Leo would be amazing!

Dasha

I’m so so happy to hear about BeckettLeoJo!!!! omg my dream came true! thankuthankuthanku

Maia

Ngl, for me it's the polar opposite. The dynamic between Beckett and Leo in both - the bonus scene and nlu - was amazing. It's my fav after Lunnely so far. But the scenes between Beckett and Jo are cringy. And it's also a "the woman is younger and has less experience/forbidden love" - trope again which we had in almost every book.

Maia

I'm so in love with Leo 🫶 I'm rooting for my man! And I'm also so interested in Tom's reaction to the fact that his big brother isn't straight (does he know?)

Rachel

I liked the raging ones but I loved the last hope! 😁🙏🏻

Rachel

I felt sooooo bad for Tom 😭 his cousin married one of his crushes & now his new crush is his brother's love interest 😭 poor kid can't catch a break

Rachel

It's only an hour and 45 min drive from Yale to Hell's Kitchen 👀🤷🏼‍♀️🙏🏻

Gloria

Soooo happy, that you are (most likely) going with Beckett, Leo and Joana 😍😍😍. Thank you so much for letting us share your secret 🤗