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Archer's Voice by Mia Sheridan

31 reviews

shaleen64's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

The writing style very much fits with the young adult genre, despite some explicit scenes. However, the character development is strong and the two main characters equally lovable for different reasons. The book touches on some important topics without trivialising them. If you enjoy a good love story then it’s not one to be missed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Death of parent

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Rape, Gun violence, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, and Sexual assault

Minor: Pregnancy, Addiction, Car accident, Drug abuse, and Murder

cassiereadsbooks_'s review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Drug abuse, Murder, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Mental illness, and Sexual assault

betweenbooksandkitsch's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Mental illness, Death of parent, Drug use, Sexual assault, Grief, Sexual content, Violence, Bullying, Gun violence, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Abandonment, Physical abuse, Vomit, and Car accident

c_marie226's review

dark emotional hopeful slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Ableism, Violence, and Death of parent

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Mental illness

katto06's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I regret holding out on reading this book for so long. First off i absolutely adore both Bree and Archer. I adore their strength and their chemistry. Their backstories are so heart breaking. I felt the kicking feet, toe curling and blushing happiness, The “i wanna punch something” madness, and the absolute sobbing sadness. This book was everything and it’s easily a 5 star for me! 
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But why did Mia have to include “ilu” in their texts?? that was the only thing i actually cringed at. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Death, Gun violence, Sexual content, Death of parent, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Emotional abuse, Bullying, and Gaslighting

nzmonica's review

emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Sexual content, Ableism, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Alcohol and Grief

Minor: Violence, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Stalking, and Sexual assault

tcgav's review

Genuinely I’m so confused as to how this book has over 4 stars, and was probably the most recommended book to me ever! 

My main issue is the author telling everything literally rather than showing. The writing is bad. 

Other than that: 
Weird infantilizing of the mute character even within sexually explicit scenes which feels particularly gross for me. Language at times was terribly ableist and weird, especially describing the MFC’s love for the MMC. Feels way too contrived to have

brothers fighting over a single girl in both generations

. The way what I see as non-consent (intoxicated, inexperience, character is mute) is handled is gross. How does someone own a town?? Everyone states the MMC is supposed to be so sweet and lovely but his jealousy and inability to trust the MFC when she says she will do something or feels a certain way (despite her literally never having lied to him) is gross and not in line with a sweet, lovely, MMC. His virginity also like goes beyond virginity into borderline not knowing about sex at all which just comes across again as infantilizing and gross. There are just an ungodly amount of explicit scenes with nothing of substance or interest in between. 

I am the target audience for this book like everyone recommended it to me for a sweet MMC and disability representation but it’s just so poorly executed in every way in my opinion, I couldn’t even finish it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Infidelity, Death of parent, Murder, Grief, Sexual violence, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Gun violence, Domestic abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Mental illness, and Car accident

Moderate: Ableism

destinynichole11's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Grief, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Drug use, Child abuse, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Death, Blood, Death of parent, Addiction, Car accident, Ableism, Bullying, Sexual content, Gun violence, Chronic illness, Confinement, Panic attacks/disorders, Cancer, Sexual assault, Murder, Medical trauma, Infidelity, and Domestic abuse

wildesthannah's review

emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

The story is sweet, although it dragged on a little at times. The sex scenes seemed a little immature and desperate, almost as if they were wattpad stories. There could have been less of them, too. My biggest pet peeve with this book was the repetitiveness of several of the phrases. Every time I read the word “delicious” I cringed. It would make a good drinking game though... Take a shot every time you see the phrases delicious, glittering, smiled a small smile (or any form of this same phrase) or I drank him in. Those were on every other page it seemed. Also, the “molest” comment was a little uncalled for and weird. It was definitely out of place and random. Aside from some immature writing and repetitive phrases, the story was okay. Definitely wasn’t a tear jerker though (I cry easily when I connect with a book.) This one just didn’t do it for me. All in all, it was alright. Wouldn’t recommend on my own, but wouldn’t stop someone from reading it if they wanted to. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Sexual content, Violence, Death of parent, Mental illness, Gun violence, Sexual assault, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Car accident, Blood, Cursing, and Alcoholism

kfaulkner2005's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Grief, Murder, Death of parent, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Domestic abuse, Gun violence, and Alcoholism