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Archer's Voice
by Mia Sheridan
emotional
medium-paced
The writing is decent and I don't hate it, but it wasn't extraordinary either.
Bree goes on a "road trip" after watching her father murdered in front of her and ends up in a small town. She gets a job in the local diner and starts to run into the town loner, who's mute. Everyone seems to think he's cognitively handicapped in some way and avoid him. The FMC seems to blurt and ramble when she's nervous. She signs because her father was deaf, and she's apparently the first who's ever tried to talk to him that way. He learned from books, but has never practiced with others so his fluency seems unrealistic.
The backstory that's slowly revealed is that the man he thought was his father was abusive. The man he believed to be his uncle was actually his father and tried to take him and his mom away, but the abusive guy was tipped off, hit their car, and his mom was killed instantly. He was then shot in the throat at 7 years old, leading to his muteness. His father and uncle pulled guns and shot each other. His bio father's wife at the time prevented him from having the surgery that could have repaired his voice and manipulated the town into thinking he was incompetent to prevent him from claiming his inheritance, because she wanted it to go to her son. That son is manipulative and awful and tries to split archer and bree up by setting him up with a stripper and paying for her to have sex with him. Archer doesn't go through with it, but it still goes too far and he feels guilty. They work through it, find some happiness. He eventually has to leave for a while to figure out how to be his own man, but he does come back and after a fake out that almost made me throw the book, he inherits the town and they have a HEA.
Bree goes on a "road trip" after watching her father murdered in front of her and ends up in a small town. She gets a job in the local diner and starts to run into the town loner, who's mute. Everyone seems to think he's cognitively handicapped in some way and avoid him. The FMC seems to blurt and ramble when she's nervous. She signs because her father was deaf, and she's apparently the first who's ever tried to talk to him that way. He learned from books, but has never practiced with others so his fluency seems unrealistic.