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4.04 AVERAGE
4.04 AVERAGE
it's just so beautiful, the idea of healing past traumas and getting to know yourself truly after being pushed aside for so long
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
1.5* ... overrated
the writing was bad and the smut was just thrown in there until it lost its effect.. it had potential but oh well..
the writing was bad and the smut was just thrown in there until it lost its effect.. it had potential but oh well..
i’ve been typing and deleting, typing and deleting, typing and deleting this review for almost forty minutes because every single word i wrote down here seemed not to be enough, so this won’t probably be a regular review where i tell you if you should read this book or not but, but just a really emotional stream of consciousness.
“I had learned recently that often, love was all about learning to speak a person's language.”
i usually am a pretty fast reader, but this time it took me four days to finish this book because i had to stop at every single page and close the book, trying to assimilate what was happening — a lot of things hit too close to home and sometimes it was too hard to read them in writing, but that’s also the main reason why i fell for this book so hard: i’ve never related to a fictional character as much as i related to archer, this kindhearted man that has been looking for someone willing to go beyond his silence, learning his language and believing in him when no one else did. a man that because of his past has always been afraid to walk through the door of his heavy baggage. but mostly, a man that has always kept himself away from love because he grew up the conviction that he wasn’t enough, that he didn’t deserve a single moment of joy in his life and that, because of his past — and the trauma it left him — and his disability could have been nothing but a burden on whoever chose to be by his side. a man that, by the end of the book, has grown, gaining courage, strength and self-esteem. a man who loves himself for who he is. a man who has found his voice.
“But don't you see, I had to fight for myself first. I had to feel like I was someone worthy of winning you.”
i usually hate when in a book the authors choose to talk about a mental disorder without any clue on what they’re talking about, but this time i have to admit that the way mia sheridan decided to represent PTSD warmed my heart: it was sweet, delicate and humble. sometimes authors think that love can cure all evil, forgetting about what being a person affected by mental illness really means and invalidating who suffers from those illnesses, but again, mia sheridan wrote about the part where, for a person who struggles with PTSD, people become the most important thing because they’re fundamental to go on and to overcome trauma. and again, she did that with all the sensitivity of the world.
“A small silent star, always on the outskirts, hardly noticed before, had shone so brightly, that the whole town stopped to gaze upon his brilliance.”
so yeah, long story short, i loved this book because it (also) felt like reading my own story.
“And I thought to myself, Archer Hale's voice was one of the most beautiful things in the whole wide world.”
“I had learned recently that often, love was all about learning to speak a person's language.”
i usually am a pretty fast reader, but this time it took me four days to finish this book because i had to stop at every single page and close the book, trying to assimilate what was happening — a lot of things hit too close to home and sometimes it was too hard to read them in writing, but that’s also the main reason why i fell for this book so hard: i’ve never related to a fictional character as much as i related to archer, this kindhearted man that has been looking for someone willing to go beyond his silence, learning his language and believing in him when no one else did. a man that because of his past has always been afraid to walk through the door of his heavy baggage. but mostly, a man that has always kept himself away from love because he grew up the conviction that he wasn’t enough, that he didn’t deserve a single moment of joy in his life and that, because of his past — and the trauma it left him — and his disability could have been nothing but a burden on whoever chose to be by his side. a man that, by the end of the book, has grown, gaining courage, strength and self-esteem. a man who loves himself for who he is. a man who has found his voice.
“But don't you see, I had to fight for myself first. I had to feel like I was someone worthy of winning you.”
i usually hate when in a book the authors choose to talk about a mental disorder without any clue on what they’re talking about, but this time i have to admit that the way mia sheridan decided to represent PTSD warmed my heart: it was sweet, delicate and humble. sometimes authors think that love can cure all evil, forgetting about what being a person affected by mental illness really means and invalidating who suffers from those illnesses, but again, mia sheridan wrote about the part where, for a person who struggles with PTSD, people become the most important thing because they’re fundamental to go on and to overcome trauma. and again, she did that with all the sensitivity of the world.
“A small silent star, always on the outskirts, hardly noticed before, had shone so brightly, that the whole town stopped to gaze upon his brilliance.”
so yeah, long story short, i loved this book because it (also) felt like reading my own story.
“And I thought to myself, Archer Hale's voice was one of the most beautiful things in the whole wide world.”
hopeful
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Once you’re 50% into the book, it’s smut every ten pages. The premise/plot felt… weird, icky almost Weird trauma bonding that somehow made for a romantic relationship
Not my cup of tea
Not my cup of tea
emotional
sad
tense
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
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I read this very quickly. It's a good little story but a couple things put me off a bit: How did you forget your phone for a cross country trip? Why is everyone winking all the time? These twenty somethings talk like they are in their thirties, which I'm actually grateful for and attribute to poetic license. Bree cries SO much in the back third.
emotional
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
hopeful
reflective
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