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Ep.1 Archer's Voice By Mia Sheridan
Have you ever felt a connection so deep with a book that you just had to talk about it? That's precisely what happened to us, Kylee and Susie, with "Archer's Voice," and we're here to spill every heartfelt and thrilling moment, along with having a laugh with a friend.
Editing done by Connor Luther @clfilms.co
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Editing done by Connor Luther @clfilms.co
Music by @thundercatlouis
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Hello, hello everyone, and welcome to our very first episode of when Girls Talk Books. I'm Kylie.
Speaker 2:I'm Suzy, and we're gonna be going over all books here, so if you are a book lover, this is the right place for you. We're gonna be going into romance, thrillers, mystery, small authors you name it. You wanna read about it and we're going to, most of all, talk about it.
Speaker 1:That's what we're best at. We do talk a lot, but that's what we're here for. So if you guys have any suggestions, feel free to leave them down below or send us a message on Instagram, because we are looking for different recommendations and maybe there's something that you love that we don't know about.
Speaker 2:If you're an author and you want somebody to read your book, hit us up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we do wanna focus on small authors. We do have a couple of kind of already in line, but we are always looking for new suggestions. Okay, so this episode we decided to cover Archer's Voice, and this was definitely one that I do think.
Speaker 2:Book, talk, booktube, all of the book sites, all of the sites, all the places, all the people. What we're getting at is everyone hyped it up appropriately. Yeah, because like usually these books will either be all sad or all spicy or all thrilling, and this one actually, you were like, oh my God, I was crying and then going all at the same time, so for sure.
Speaker 1:Like it gave you enough to care, but like the whole thing wasn't just catastrophically sad or the whole thing is smart and there's actually no plot line whatsoever. So I felt like it was a really good in between, and then it also kind of built up to those things. It wasn't just right away instant love. They're like the best thing that they've ever seen. A little bit, but nothing too extreme.
Speaker 2:I liked the amount of awkwardness in the book. This book actually like put a lot of actual awkwardness in it. Maybe that's why I could really do it so well Okay.
Speaker 1:Do you want to do a brief summary?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it's definitely a love story, but kind of a mystery, and there's some thrilling moments while I like. I guess you could call it a thriller, but it's mostly like a love story about two people with their own wounds, that kind of, come together and have to find themselves, to re-come back and find each other, and then there's two pieces of shit all mixed in there in the meantime trying to ruin their love story and, as they say, it helps him find his voice and like I didn't understand what that meant when I first started this book and then by the end I'm just like so that's the brief summary on our true voice.
Speaker 1:So it starts out with immediately is Archer, and he's a little boy and he's playing, and his uncle comes in and he's talking with him and hey, bud, how's it going? And then he goes and talks to Archer's mom and she's essentially telling him can you get us out of here?
Speaker 2:Which immediately we're reading that part and I'm like, uh-oh, it's gonna be one of those books. Yeah, oh, no.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so that was. That's immediately what you get, but then you don't really know who Archer is or anything about that but it gives you a little bit of preference.
Speaker 2:And it was confusing because when it starts the book from his perspective as a child, I thought this book's gonna be about a kid.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Like because I came into this semi-blonde I didn't really like, look anything. Yeah, I was picking up, here we go.
Speaker 1:Well, I knew it was a romance, so I'm like if it's a seven that's a little.
Speaker 2:I don't know I'm like he's gonna get older eventually, right?
Speaker 1:So the story is about Archer and Brie, and Archer is a little boy who then grows up, obviously, and then Brie comes to town.
Speaker 2:Brie is a young woman who is kind of looking for I'll call it a fresh start or not even that Like just needed a break. Yeah, she's in her own traumas and loss was suffering some really major grief that you know, she didn't even realize that Archer could relate to.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I think that's what helped them bond a little bit and Archer, throughout the story is really just the misunderstood yeah, recluse of the town is the best way to describe it.
Speaker 1:Just horrifically secluded, really Isolated.
Speaker 2:That's the way.
Speaker 1:So Brie essentially takes off with her dog Phoebe and she finds this town. She's renting a cabin. The neighbor Anne is really nice to her.
Speaker 2:I love Anne. Yeah, she's sweet, I love Anne.
Speaker 1:Just a sweet old lady and one of the things she has to do when she gets into town is she goes to the grocery store and she gets a thousand Omensjoys which I did enjoy that part and some tampons and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:Really essential, clearly, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:She comes out of the store and her bag breaks or drops it or something, and it all just goes everywhere, which is like your worst nightmare.
Speaker 2:It's like that has happened to me in my apartment complex, not that same thing but I live on the third floor and I was trying to carry things up and the bag handles ripped and just all my stuff went flying and I was like, first of all, this was healthy grocery shopping. I didn't even want all this shit and now it's all over the place and my neighbors can see me and like I really just wanted to leave it.
Speaker 1:So I couldn't imagine.
Speaker 2:She felt being new, uncomfortable and that happening and then Archer just shows up.
Speaker 1:Yes, this is where we meet Archer for the second time and he starts grabbing the stuff and handing it to her and she's just like word vomit. Like you've never. You know, I wasn't even going to eat all these Omensjoys, I was just going to snog it up for winter?
Speaker 1:Yeah, maybe I would have and she's like secretly I was planning on eating four of these on the way home and that kind of comes back later on like nobody's ever felt like uncomfortable, like embarrassed around him because everybody's just kind of passed him by for so long where that was a moment where he kind of you know there was something different about her to be embarrassed in front of him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, most people thought they were above him anyway. Yeah.
Speaker 1:But he never says anything to her. He just like hands him to her and she's like you could say anything at any point to put her out of my misery. And then he walks away and she's like cool, that's great. And then after that she the next morning is when you first see that she's actually dealing with some sort of trauma, because she has her nightmare and is like she vomits, she like shakes. It's severe PTSD.
Speaker 2:You've picking up on a lot of that yeah. And how they get. They didn't give you very much at a time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you don't really know why. You just know like it's raining, there's blood.
Speaker 2:Something happened.
Speaker 1:Something horrific happened and then that's basically it for as much as you know there. And then Anne tells her that the diner is hiring if she's looking for a job.
Speaker 2:Her new neighbor and I. She said something about like I'll put in a good word for her.
Speaker 1:I know the owners. They're good people something like that. Yeah, because it's a really small town. So she goes and she gets a job and she meets Travis.
Speaker 2:Travis.
Speaker 1:Who is on his way to be sheriff.
Speaker 2:My only note about Travis is Travis equals tool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there was. Just there was something about him. Anyway, even at the end I was like I don't like you, I don't even care.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was like it was hard for me to forgive anything. I don't care that he like yeah no you're bad, bad person weird, weird vibes. Yeah, so she meets Travis and he's like putting the moves on her and is like I can show you around. I'm like, I'm so great I can show you around.
Speaker 1:You're like thank you. And she's like, okay, yeah, it's going to be a no for me, dog. Yeah. So they meet for the first time there and then she decides to see if she can get to the river one day after work, or the lake, whatever it is. Goes on her bike ride, goes on her bike ride and her dog ends up taking off, which is her neighbor's bike too Forgot.
Speaker 2:Super cute that neighbor animals like here. I'm not using that honey.
Speaker 1:Oh, she was sweet. But the dog takes off into somebody's yard and the gates open and my worst nightmare archer and he is not not very welcoming, and she again is like word vomit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Like over the doors. This has to happen to me again and to the same person.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I think at this point she knows he doesn't talk. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Somebody had town and mentioning Yep. Of course Travis likes to set things up because he can't help himself. Yeah, he can't help himself. Look great and archer, look as weird as possible.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so at this point she knows that he can't talk, but she assumes that he's deaf. Yep.
Speaker 2:And that's why Everyone assumes that he's deaf.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but she meets him and he I always picture her being like.
Speaker 2:Hi, my name is Brie.
Speaker 1:Hey, what's up? How's it going? Just getting my dog, yeah. But he's like not very welcoming. And then he ends up getting a notepad and is like writing down which was so sweet. And then he says he's deaf and he's like who told you I was deaf? And then I can hear you. Yeah, he's like I can hear you and he's like really working on a sarcasm with her and she's like are you trying to be funny right now?
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's their phrase Are you being funny?
Speaker 1:Yeah, are you being funny? He says something like no, I'm just practicing my penmanship or something like that, and she's like is that a joke?
Speaker 2:Yep, and that's like his humor is super dry yeah.
Speaker 1:That's kind of our first like.
Speaker 2:Like little hint that he does have a personality, yeah.
Speaker 1:She ends up saying like we can be friends, yada, yada, yada, and he's essentially like I'm not really interested. She's like no, you don't want to. Okay, you don't want to get pizza, okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was pizza and beer sometime and it was no, I would have just never tried to make friends again after that I would have literally never spoken again.
Speaker 1:I would have moved that night. I don't know how you would have heard Like broke the lease Cool, cool. This is not the fresh start after all. Next, yeah, I'm gonna go and get somebody else in this town now, because everybody hates me.
Speaker 2:Everybody knows. That's immediately where my mind would go.
Speaker 1:So they meet there and then we get a flashback and we find out that some accident had happened and all of a sudden Archer can't speak and he's asking where his mom is, and he's in the hospital.
Speaker 2:So tragic.
Speaker 1:And his uncle Nathan is there, and then he's like where's?
Speaker 2:my mom. So uncle Nathan is on his mom's side. That was like his mom's brother, yeah.
Speaker 1:And he's a little bit of a nutty guy Means well, it's super nice.
Speaker 2:But is always prepared for the government to shut down the world and I'm sorry, cousin Allen, but gave me very, my cousin Allen vibes. Like if the world was ending. You would be glad that they're on your side.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But you always feel like I wish I could understand your sense of urgency so much. If the world is ending, sorry, cousin.
Speaker 1:Allen, I'm not making it. Like, let's just all be real. I'm not gonna make it, or I would thrive. Yeah, it's one, I'm either gone immediately or I'm lasting this entire thing.
Speaker 2:Agreed no in between there. It's not if we get our family compound finish in time.
Speaker 1:but back to the book.
Speaker 2:Yeah, sorry, sorry, hurry up. Sounds like aShow Now. Now silenced archer.
Speaker 1:So then we also see after that she meets some friends in town through Anne. If I remember it like they were really forward customers.
Speaker 2:I remember thinking reading in the book, like if somebody tried to be friends with me that hard, I would assume like they were working with a pimp and I was gonna get like sold into trafficking.
Speaker 1:Why are you being so nice?
Speaker 2:to me, it's just but instead she's like, yeah sure, I'll go to dinner with these girls. I barely know like small town. I'm like okay, awfully brave.
Speaker 1:That'd be my scenario If anyone tried to talk to me. What do you want, yep, what do you want from me? So that she meets them, which is great, and then she's at the grocery store and she only brings so much cash because she's not working. And so she kind of has to budget and she only brings so much cash. She doesn't have enough, she's a little bit short.
Speaker 2:She's a little short. That just. I was reading it from a book and I was like freaking out as if it was happening to me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and Archer and Zeph are reading it and they're so sweet. And then they're in the parking lot and then he signs goodnight Bree and it just like makes her world.
Speaker 2:She's like dear diary we are enough. It has finally happened he told me goodnight, and what are the odds that she can sign? That was pretty cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so her dad was deaf and so she can actually sign and communicate with him and I think that's really cool. And there's a line in there where she because Archer ended up teaching himself sign language and she had said something about how sad it is for someone to teach themselves a language and still nobody talks to him and I was like cut it, cut it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, I can't even imagine. Like the loneliness, the loneliness is just horrific. And then we get another flashback of Travis essentially saying how big of a freak that Archer is, cause he's like completely forgotten about. Yeah, walking by.
Speaker 2:He was just being in bushes. I wanted to reach through the book and just yeah.
Speaker 1:And then Archer and Travis are cousins. So like the dynamic there has never been good, like Travis has never been nice to Archer, and I think that's the first time you really see like, oh, travis is horrible, he's been horrible from the start. Yeah, you're just a mean person.
Speaker 2:You're a bully. You yeah You've always had the upper hand and taken full advantage of it. And you're just gross.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that's really sad. Like he, archer, quite literally has nobody. His whole family is not around. His uncle, nathan, even died, and now this is very.
Speaker 2:He has one person essentially.
Speaker 1:I mean, it's two in a way, but even he's horrific to him, yep, and I hate that. Yeah, I really just don't like Travis. No, me neither. He's been through the whole thing and never liked him. We have that, and then she goes back, she does a lot of bike rides and she has a car.
Speaker 2:That's what I'm lazy.
Speaker 1:It's a little stalker-ish kind of a little bit. She really likes to drive by his house and one day the gate is open, so she goes in and he says I want to show you something. And his dog Kitty had had puppies, so sweet, and they kind of have a moment of essentially, if the gate is open you can come in.
Speaker 2:So this is like A friendship is born.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is his entry, he's like if the gate's open, you can come in. And she's like, okay, perfect, perfect, perfect, perfect, yeah. And so they've definitely, at this point, started to form a relationship. Whether he really wanted to or not, brie is definitely we deserve her way in.
Speaker 2:No, we didn't do that on purpose. We're playing that. That just perfectly happened.
Speaker 1:So Travis and Brie go on a date.
Speaker 2:Ah, cringe.
Speaker 1:That happens next and this is something I never got over, ever through the entire thing. Again, I will say this Through the whole book, telling blue in the face I don't care what Travis did in the end, I don't like him and I didn't trust him. All right, this is a series. So if he ends up becoming a good guy, this is a series. Sorry, I'm pretty sure it's like companion novels. Oh, don't quote me on that Now. You have me second guessing, but I'm pretty sure he is, I'm excited.
Speaker 2:Oh, that'd be cool If so allegedly.
Speaker 1:They go on the date, it's fine, whatever they go back and he's like kissing her and kind of feeling her up. And she says the last time a man had looked at me with less than his eyes had been the most traumatic moment of my life and she needed to take baby steps there. And she says something feels off. I was like nope, something's off and I never let that go throughout the entire thing.
Speaker 2:Your intuition.
Speaker 1:I'm like nope, mm-mm-mm-mm-mm, something's off. So I specifically marked that page because I never let that go and the way that that date went in the book.
Speaker 2:I feel like every woman has been on that date where you're like wow, I am definitely number 744. Like you've got this down to a science here. It was just so nothing special or thought out for her, it was very generic, just like okay, now I pick you up, now we go here, now we make out.
Speaker 1:Like it was just gross, I didn't ugh, and at this point she likes Archer so she kind of did it out of obligation of he's trying to be nice.
Speaker 2:And he like tracked her down because she wouldn't answer the phone.
Speaker 1:So he like showed up and she's like oh, are you stalking me?
Speaker 2:And, being the new girl in town, don't really want to ruffle the feathers of the only cops in town.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but she already has feelings for Archer at that point, so this wasn't really ever going to go anywhere. And then Bree's on her way back over to Archer's house and she gets caught in a net and I was so confused when that first started happening. I was like Archer's a serial killer, like that's where I thought this book was going and I was like wow okay, so the net is from his uncle, who thought that the government was out to get everybody and would set these nets in the woods to catch people.
Speaker 2:This is something you'd have to watch out for at my mom's house, oh, gosh.
Speaker 1:So she gets caught in the net and she's screaming and crying and then Archer hears it and comes and runs and gets her out of it and she's just like a complete nurse Feral. Yeah, and so this kind of is the beginning of them kind of communicating what had happened to both of them.
Speaker 2:That's true, because she just hysterically cried forever too, until what she passed out, or something like that I think, yeah, she fell asleep at some point.
Speaker 1:And then she tells Archer essentially what had happened and somebody had came into the deli shop and the dad owed money.
Speaker 2:So the person he was at the register and something was locked. He couldn't hear him asking for the money and then he was shot Right in front of her, and then the guy was going to assault her, was going to assault her. Was that one? The cops, yeah, but just in time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but so she essentially saw her dad get murdered and then was assaulted. They ended up having to sell the deli to pay for funeral expenses.
Speaker 2:And just talk about a tragic turn of events. I mean, just one night totally flipped her whole life around.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and she was really close with her dad, so she ends up confessing all of that to him, can?
Speaker 2:you imagine unloading that to someone you barely know and helped you clean up your embarrassing spill on the street? Just like OK. So, by the way, thanks for listening to me hysterically cry.
Speaker 1:Also, I'm like I've known you for seven years, let's, I've known you longer than that. I've known you my whole life. Maybe we can talk about things.
Speaker 2:Maybe now we'll go ahead and give it a try. No.
Speaker 1:I really don't want to be a bother.
Speaker 2:I'll just keep it If you like if it's too weird. I mean you can like, at any time we can like, we can just cut our losses here. This is a mistake. I should just go.
Speaker 1:I'm like, I don't really like that, that Never mind. Never mind, my opinion isn't important, please stay my friend. Being a girl is so fun, OK. So then Archer then in return tells her that he was shot by his uncle and that's how he lost his voice. Tragic, he just kind of leaves it at that. That's what happened, so I don't have my voice anymore. And she ends up staying the night and in his room there's a photo of his mom and it says my beautiful list C and that's the wheel's turning.
Speaker 2:That's it what.
Speaker 1:She's like why would he have this that his uncle Connor wrote on here if he shot him? That don't make no sense.
Speaker 2:The math ain't math in here.
Speaker 1:Math ain't math in. So I think this was probably one of the biggest issues I had with this book Ready, she has no nightmares after she confesses all of this. Thank you. You have severe PTSD and just because you told one person, you told one hot boy.
Speaker 2:That was real nice, that just cured you Girl you need years of therapy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was like I don't like that.
Speaker 2:Because if that were true, wouldn't it seem that every girl that confided in a dad, brat or Chad would suddenly get better too?
Speaker 1:No, I don't know.
Speaker 2:Seems kind of weird. Yeah, I was a little frustrated that it was, that was part of the story and then would just get put away, and then it would come back up when she needed her to have some PTSD She'd like just so yeah, oh yeah, we actually have nightmares, mia, that's my complaint to you.
Speaker 1:That was my biggest complaint on this whole book. What Huh?
Speaker 2:Diffuck.
Speaker 1:That doesn't make any sense. Let's just so. I think that was really my only complaint in this book. That didn't make any sense, but I'll just leave it be because the rest of the book was pretty good, True? So she goes home, lets a dog out, she comes back and he has scissors and he's like I thought I could get a haircut.
Speaker 2:The haircut scene.
Speaker 1:And he like I don't even know. He essentially she's giving him a haircut and she's like moving around and he just he likes what he sees, he can't control it.
Speaker 2:Basically, it's just like you need to leave.
Speaker 1:You've got to go. You have to go now. And she's like OK, because she like wants to kiss him.
Speaker 2:He's just like you have to go, it's tension.
Speaker 1:It's too much.
Speaker 2:You have to go right now, as a girl, I would feel so like what.
Speaker 1:Again. We are never speaking again. Yep, she gave him so many chances. The embarrassment.
Speaker 2:I couldn't. I don't like to be rejected. Ok, I can't take that many rejections.
Speaker 1:I'm leaving town. I'm never coming back, like this has been.
Speaker 2:You would have called me so fast. Couldn't get me right now.
Speaker 1:So many times right now. This is clearly not working out. You don't want me around. I'm bye, bye sorry. And another thing with his hair is he kind of always used it as like a shield Was hiding, that's why it's so long and things like that.
Speaker 1:And then he ends up saying something of like, I want to do to see me, which is so sweet, and I did love that, it did love that. So she does leave. She's like OK, fine, I'm going to go. Then Bye. And the next day at the diner Travis's mom comes in who's just a peach of a woman. And she says essentially like, stay away from him, he's dangerous, he's violent, you shouldn't be around him. I'm just kind of OK.
Speaker 2:And like to think. You're in a small town and some hoity hoity thinks she owns the town lady just marches in and decides to tell you to stay away from some random person You're like. And who are you?
Speaker 1:Yeah, so there's an underlying kind of storyline of the Hale family and they own a bunch of the town land and they've decided that they're going to build condos or something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, major construction. There was going to be basically all new shops, condos. They were trying to, you know, go for a little mine Along the lakefront kind of area where she's staying.
Speaker 1:So they're going to take out all those cabins and put in a bunch of shops and things like that for the town. So Victoria is running it now and then in theory it should go to the oldest Hale boy, which would be Travis, which would be Travis, so it'll be passed along to him at some point and convenient and he'll take it over and it seems like it's pretty, you know, it's coming up that he's going to be taking over the land. So they really think they're hot shit in this town, I guess small town, they probably are, or they think that they are. So there's always this kind of background story line of what is happening with the town and who the land goes to and kind of what the plan is.
Speaker 2:Those were the stresses in town that things were tick Yep.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So she comes and says essentially stay away from him, he's dangerous. And she kind of spits back and is like I'll do whatever the hell I want, I'll do what I want. Yeah, and he's actually more than a friend to me, and so you know that yeah. And she ends up going back to Archer's house and essentially says did you want me to kiss you the other day? And she says yep, so quickly, yes, I did. And then that's when things definitely move to more of a romantic environment between them and they kiss.
Speaker 1:That's for sure A lot. She ends up talking to Travis and Travis invites Archer out with his friends.
Speaker 2:Another, I felt so like, no, this is not going to end well. Yeah, even Archer knew. I just was very much like what the hell did you think was going to come of this?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That's how I felt.
Speaker 1:Well, travis is like oh, I've tried, blah, blah, blah blah.
Speaker 1:So Brie, who doesn't even really know who these people are or any history in the town and their dynamics is like, oh yeah, this will be so good for him and she's like really excited for Archer to go out and experience world. I guess you could say Girl Travie takes him to a strip club which is just so overwhelming to Archer and he doesn't want to be there and he's uncomfortable, he doesn't like his friends, the guy's friends. He doesn't even really like Travis, but he takes him there anyway.
Speaker 2:And I hated this part, so cringe and then, yeah, it goes out of his way to pay one of the workers strippers to take him into the VIP room and basically show him everything he needs to know, because he found out about Brie and Archer and it's just so mean for Travis to go that low to try to sabotage it.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, and he put all that shit in his head about how like well, you know that Brie wants the next experienced guy and you're not gonna be able to give her what like she needs, and just totally messing with his side, I was just like, oh, I was so angry. I was so angry but I was frustrated with Bree. Doing something like this is kind of your fault. I know you didn't know that Travis was a piece of shit, but like you went on a date with Travis and you knew he wasn't that great of a person and you still pushed this.
Speaker 1:I think the hopefulness of hers. This is his only family like this is the only family he has left. She knows that the mom's on around, the dad's on around me to try. The uncle died like she's. She's really trying to push him to get to a point where he can Exist in society and set up being an outcast Going out doing things. He went to the diner that one day and she was like so excited. So I think her intentions were pure.
Speaker 2:It just went horrifically shouldn't have been Travis, should not have been tour guide.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so unfortunately, he goes in the back room, hangs out with the lady and then comes out and it's like we got to go, like I'm done with this. And he is so drunk at this point and he's also never drank.
Speaker 2:So I know having a time.
Speaker 1:He's, he hated it, he hated the whole thing. And so Travis like, all right, I'll take you home. And he doesn't end up taking him home. He ends up taking him to her house and, like the just a star person that he is, he like guns it to make noise.
Speaker 2:Gave me a lot of flashbacks reading this. I've had relationships like this, where the friends bring you home like this in this state, isn't that?
Speaker 1:great. So he ends up making as much noise as possible, wakes Bree up. Bree comes out and she's like Archer, what are you doing? And he's like, I don't like strip clubs. And she's like, what are you talking about? And so she essentially thinks that Archer went and cheated on her Cuz and that's the way.
Speaker 2:Travis wanted it to be.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that's the way he wanted it, and I'm sure he doesn't Know anything, so he doesn't really know to say no, it never. That's not what happened and she's just like you need to go and just heartbroken, which?
Speaker 2:I'm a little surprised that she was like not just get out of here, like couldn't you cut? Try to be like we'll talk about this more. Was that out of control, boys night. But, they weren't together that long so I'm putting a lot of expectations on this girl.
Speaker 1:Well, she's thinking that he he had sex with this girl in the back room.
Speaker 2:That's she's thinking it's way more than it is.
Speaker 1:Which is not what happened, but Archer doesn't know how to articulate that to her because he's so inexperienced, he's like.
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:Maybe like yeah, maybe that is what happened cuz he's just I don't know, so she's like you need to go. I've felt so conflicted and bad for him me too, in this moment, cuz he's just so pure and so innocent and Travis essentially just took advantage of that to ruin this relationship, and I hated it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I really did. That whole section was hard for me to get through, so I'm like no, I'm like she, he didn't. Like we could talk to.
Speaker 1:And they don't talk for a while. But then a storm comes and storms essentially make her right.
Speaker 2:She suddenly has PTSD again because there was a thunderstorm and I guess the author needed a moment to rekindle PTSD. Yeah, let me just sprinkle that in there.
Speaker 1:Little razzle dazzle, yeah, so there's a storm and and she ends up seeing him just like outside. He's just sitting out there. Oh yeah, that's what he came in. Can you imagine, like I understand, archer is so innocent and so pure that she didn't think anything of it. Me as An ex kind of in a way. You're standing outside my door and it's storming. You're actually here.
Speaker 2:What are you doing?
Speaker 1:Oh no, I watch way too much true crime for that. You're here to kill me, so Hmm.
Speaker 2:I refuse to be the next state line episode. Come get the cream off my porch, yeah there's no way.
Speaker 1:Sorry about me, a little bit cheerleader, you come handle this real quick like, but she does it and no fights him in and she doesn't get murdered, so I guess it was fine. So she gets a, puts his clothes in the dryer. She's like here, put this towel on.
Speaker 2:He must have been so confused Like first you kick me out, then you let me in and do my laundry. What do you want? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And so they talk and essentially it comes out. He had gotten a lap dance, got a little too excited in this back room and he thought that that was Sex, essentially he thought he thought he did cheat on her and she's like, oh, like, no, okay, no, that's not what happened. It's okay, you know, but he was just so Distraught thinking that he had done it. So they make up because there's a storm and then nothing else to do. Yeah, yeah, and then they have sex for the first time and then.
Speaker 1:Now, anytime that there's a storm, I'll think of you, this traumatic thing there was a few of those in this book.
Speaker 2:Not have been my choice of words there. I don't think I like that but I don't like that because of this book I'm gonna think about that every time there's a storm like this wasn't even my life.
Speaker 1:I didn't want to think about it. I don't think I'm gonna think of that. I think I'm gonna think of there's actually somebody standing outside in the rain. Why you need to invite them in. What are you doing, ezra? Okay, we went overboard. Okay, back on the ship. So, after they've made up, her Friends, come to visit, because she's planning on going back home Because they caught the guy that killed her dad.
Speaker 1:They have to do a lineup, so she needs to go home and identify and so on and so forth. So her friends come to visit and then she's gonna drive back with them. So it turns out her breaking point essentially was one of her friends, jordan, had professed his love To her about those J name guys.
Speaker 2:I say it happened to me in my life a J name guy that just like couldn't, couldn't get it together anymore, that we were friends, and I've never spoken to him since. It's like and now Jordan.
Speaker 1:Yeah, bro, mine worked out great. True, my husband's name is Justin. We were friends forever, so dad checked out. He's the one good J name. And it's a Justin. I know it's a rare. He's breaking all of these rules.
Speaker 2:Go, tourists is go.
Speaker 1:Tom. Blonde tourists Wonder if Archer is a tourist. We need you guys to look up when his birthdays. Yes, can you let us know?
Speaker 2:thank you, viewers, that's your homework. Go, look up Archer Hills birthday. Let us know if he's a tourist or not.
Speaker 1:Give us all the zodiacs while we're at it. Yeah, actually, and Travis.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'll bet Travis is a Virgo, sorry. Virgos but y'all are being addictive. Lying, I was gonna say Gemini Good to face. Maybe that's Victoria.
Speaker 1:Real, it back in real back we went overboard. Okay, so I gotta go find the murderer.
Speaker 2:She has to go, identify it and line up very stressed.
Speaker 1:This is gonna be the first time her and Archer like separated again, for yeah well first he kind of finds out that Jordan had professed his love to breathe, and so there's an immediate tension of Archer is starting to really kind of be insecure in their relationship, and he's even says something like how many more men am I gonna have to do this with?
Speaker 2:like first there was Travis, now there's like oh, I'm sorry, I'm stunning and everybody wants me. You're like I should just get uglier.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but it's hot cuz he's so Sweet. He's so sweet he doesn't like, he just doesn't know, he doesn't understand. He's not a bad person, he's just a dumbass. Yeah, and I think this is kind of a breaking point of him realizing how am I going to fit into her life Like Me, as an outcast or a loner? How am I supposed to live Going to dinner with her friends?
Speaker 2:How am I going to learn to be a part of this?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, because he's just never in here has never had that kind of interaction in so long when he really doesn't know how to. So sad. Yeah so I felt like this was kind of a crack. This was a breaking Moment of is this actually going to work and how? Because he's Getting insecure about this, but she ends up calming him down and everything's fine, which she I throughout the book.
Speaker 2:She's really good at that. She's very reassuring, she's very forgiving, she's very understanding. Yeah and she defends him to a lot of people, which is just.
Speaker 1:And then Jordan is also at this point like meh, I'm over it. I'm actually gonna go see Sally over there. I'm gonna go see what she's up to.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm gonna go see my chances here, literally.
Speaker 1:But she goes home and they, her friends, end up giving archer a cell phone so they can communicate while they're gone.
Speaker 2:That whole moment was really sweet because it was. Jordan, that got the cell. Yeah, so talk about a good like, bury the hatchet. I don't.
Speaker 1:You know he was yours, bro, I'm and was like here just so you can get in contact with her, and so they're texting the like middle schoolers.
Speaker 1:Is. She's all in the back seat, mm-hmm, yeah. So I thought that was really sweet, really sweet of her friends. She ends up doing what she needs to do identify, this is a hundred percent the guy that did it and she ends up get Getting in the car and driving home that night. So she's like I'm on the road, see y'all later. I'm like go get my man. And Archer is trying to text her like let me know where you're at. But I understand you're driving, you know, like let me know.
Speaker 1:And he just never hears from her and so he's like Losing his free now losing his shit and like freaking out that now he's gonna be alone again. That's kind of the main thing, like he's had this life now and he just feels like it's taken away from him, and so then we get a flashback on what actually happened to Archer.
Speaker 2:Oh, that made me so heartbreaking, mmm so his uncle Connor comes it to rescue him and his mom from the abuse of alcoholic father.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and essentially we're gonna be together now. So we get a feel. For obviously his mom and his uncle, connor, are in love and have been for a long time. Connor is married to Victoria and he's like I'm leaving her, don't care If he could, travis is there, that is his son. But he's like, yep, peace out. So he tells Victoria he's gonna leave. He goes, he gets Alyssa and Archer, they get in a car, they have all their stuff. Alyssa and him are like holding hands and such a sweet moment. He tells her to buckle in.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then they get hit by a car and she flies through the windshield and is instantly dead, and the person that hit them was her husband, marcus the dad, and so Connor is sobbing over Alyssa trying to make sure the Archer is okay. Archer is like out of the car and there's a conflict between Marcus and Connor and they're like yelling at each other and essentially it comes out, the two brothers are having a standoff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, highway, yeah, over this.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it comes out. Essentially he says you know, that boy is mine, like that is my son and you've known that this entire time. So really, his uncle is his dad and which is such a moment, because he's like always.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think his words were like I'm not part of the monster.
Speaker 1:Yeah part monster and then Something happens. Marcus pulls a gun and Archer gets in front of.
Speaker 2:His uncle Connor, is like don't do that to my dad, or yeah?
Speaker 1:then he gets a shot by Marcus. Marcus shoots him and then ends up shooting.
Speaker 2:Connor, like as the reader, I was thinking he basically got shot like this way, like it because he's a child.
Speaker 1:He was pointing like down, I'm picturing, yeah it went down and out.
Speaker 2:So in the like book I pictured Archer's character having like kind of like Nothing on one side, and then he would turn and have like a whole bunch of.
Speaker 1:I Pictured it like, just like straight through his windpipe. That's how I think you.
Speaker 2:I'm acting like he got shot with bookshot over here.
Speaker 1:Just took out the whole half of his neck cuz he says he does have a scar but his beard covers it.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I forgot, so I've always pictured it in his windpipe. That makes a lot more sense. Here's makes a lot more sense. Anyway, back to the point.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. And then Marcus and Connor end up shooting each other.
Speaker 2:Yep, essentially so everybody's freakin dens a lady comes, pulls up on the scene and the woman that shows up first is Victoria.
Speaker 1:Hale and Victoria had called Marcus and said he's taking her. Oh yeah, I told her about it, the kids and they're leaving.
Speaker 2:And then yelling at a child who has been shot. This is all your fault, yeah.
Speaker 1:And then he blacks out late, huh yeah.
Speaker 2:So just saying, to bring it full circle, how much did it cut the break lines on that? Him and Travis are brothers.
Speaker 1:Yes, but they don't. He, travis, doesn't know that Archer does and has this whole life, and that's why Victoria made sure.
Speaker 2:There's a part in the book where they talk about how he could have had his voice. Yep, and Archer tells Brie that Victoria was the reason I couldn't get my voice back, and that just sets Brie off even more, because she doesn't want people to know the truth that he has owed all of that.
Speaker 1:Yep, he's the oldest son now.
Speaker 2:But that bitch gets nothing and she might be real upset about that.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So there was like a so many hour window where they could perform a surgery and he would have the potential to speak again, and she says nope. And or she convinces Nathan to not do it Somebody, yeah, because she doesn't actually get to decide. So I'm pretty sure she convinces his uncle, nathan, to not go through the surgery. So, essentially, archer just never talks again, which is just.
Speaker 2:I can't. I can't imagine that. Yeah, I don't know what would be worse, honestly Losing your hearing, like they thought he did, or not being able to talk ever again. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I talk a lot.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's true, we would be pretty bummed if I couldn't. If I can be annoying like that, oh no, couldn't even make all my weird noises.
Speaker 1:After she comes back, his house is just destroyed and she's like what the heck happened. Her phone had died, she didn't have her charger, so she just drove home. But Archer in the meantime has been freaking out, thinking something happened to her, thinking that he's now alone again, assuming the worst, heartbreaking again, cause like he's just come so far, and then he just thinks everything's ripped out of his hands. Poor guy, I hated that. So after that, everything's good, she calms him down per usual. I think at that point they profess their love for each other.
Speaker 2:Bang a whole bunch again.
Speaker 1:That's kind of the order of events. Constantly they have a freak out.
Speaker 2:They have a moment Bang, a whole bunch Go to sleep. One of them wakes up by themselves and looks for some mysterious note Cause. The other one wrote a note and ran off to do something.
Speaker 1:Gotta go let the dog out. Sorry, clearly, they didn't have iPhones.
Speaker 2:Whatever these phones were, they were just too much work to send a text. I like to think they had no keys. Let me just flip it open.
Speaker 1:No, keys don't flip. I did. I must have had an old, old you kind of like the old army just the brick L-O-L. So Anne ends up having a heart attack. The neighbor and Bree's there and she's like getting into the ambulance with Anne and she sees Archer running Archer.
Speaker 2:Assuming the word that's her usual.
Speaker 1:Yeah, something, he thought something had happened to Bree because he heard the ambulance and stuff like that and he's like visibly upset and she's like Joe.
Speaker 2:It's okay Bro.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna go, I'll be back, and he's like okay.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, anne recovers, she follows her to the hospital. Blah, blah blah, they go home.
Speaker 1:She's good, she goes back to.
Speaker 2:Travis's house. Yeah, that's what it was.
Speaker 1:Maybe, I think that's where they actually profess their love. Maybe it's one of those scenes.
Speaker 2:It's right before or after Cause. I remember the hugging. I love you I love you, I love you Signing it to each other.
Speaker 1:So then later she's at work and Archer she can see him. But then she goes out to go see Archer and Travis grabs her to try and the memorial parade.
Speaker 2:That's what it was.
Speaker 1:The memorial parade for Connor.
Speaker 2:So Travis is thinking this is my daddy's big day.
Speaker 1:I'm the star of the show, so he grabs Bree to talk to her.
Speaker 2:About the case thing. He was trying to be nice.
Speaker 1:If there's anything I can do to help, you Cause the guy that had killed her dad got out on bail.
Speaker 2:And so he was. I don't know how stressful that would feel. I wouldn't have been out.
Speaker 1:How? How did he get out on bail? What do you mean? You just identified somebody who murdered somebody and they're going to get it out on bail. Right, so frustrating. I don't know about that. I don't think that would happen, but Anyway.
Speaker 2:Maybe he has a PTSD. We'll have to ask the author. I just want to sprinkle that in to get it back in his word.
Speaker 1:Did he really get out on bail?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So he's like trying to talk to her and he's like grabbing her arm and archers across the way and he gets pitted.
Speaker 2:Intentions are at an all time high that week anyway.
Speaker 1:And so he gets mad, comes over, and then they just essentially start fighting because, men, and she says don't do this your brothers.
Speaker 2:And then Imagine doing this. We're from a small town, so like if we did that in the middle of the 4th of July parade in front of that junior hike. I cannot imagine the way the whole town would just.
Speaker 1:I can guarantee you, if I was with somebody and you're fighting in the street, I'm leaving Grow up Very different. I'm an idea over here like hit him harder Silly. I don't have time for that, absolutely not, Especially like this. What are you mad? Are you for real? Like get real. What are you punching for what? Come on, it's cool, god, I'm gonna give my testosterone. Okay, sorry, I'm a man. I want more. I want more. I want to like temper.
Speaker 2:So then the whole town is shooketh because she lets out the big bad secret that they're really brothers.
Speaker 1:She's like I'm so sorry to archer.
Speaker 2:Archers pissed. He's angry a lot Rightfully so. He's got a lot of things to be angry about.
Speaker 1:He's very mad and then he leaves and Travis is like what was that? What did you say?
Speaker 2:I did like that Travis spun around to interview his mom, though a little bit. Well, you know that could be answered with a blood test pretty easy.
Speaker 1:And she's like no, no, Gletchen or Pearls no, no, no, no. No no, archer leaves the people at the restaurant. The nice couple are like go, it's fine, go after him. She goes and Archer essentially leaves her note, big, long thing. Essentially he needs to learn how to live in the world.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, his letter pissed me, though, off. If some man had the audacity to write to me like so I'm just gonna leave and maybe I'll wait around for me.
Speaker 1:I need to go experience the world and figure myself out like uh no yeah, I need to figure things out and maybe even learn a little bit more about who I can be in the world.
Speaker 2:Okay, peter.
Speaker 1:Hanne, if I can be anybody at all, I get what you're saying. Yep, it made sense to me. Yeah, I'm like you, like Bri, and Archer cannot continue to live like this, archer is entirely too insecure about where he belongs in the world and how he can be with Bri, like this would have never gonna turn toxic fast if they didn't, you're 100% right, or?
Speaker 1:Bri would have sacrificed her life to stay with Archer, and I think that's probably where it would have come down to, is she would have just given up all these things and lived on the property with him and had a simple life, which is so. People like it. It's fine, but I don't think for Bri that would have been what she would have chosen, true, but I think she would have to stay with Archer. So there's no more of this weird conflict of well, there's these men who look at you and that's a problem, because I'm insecure and yeah, so I get it, but we don't have to agree with it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, I get what you're saying, like it was important and then I'm glad that when he went off he was like trying to better himself he really was, but it was giving me Bella Swan waiting in the window vibes when it was. Friday, how she would wait for him.
Speaker 1:I just kept the song in my head there's a possibility sitting in the window with my hoodie I have more think of in the forest where she's just laying in the cold night. Yes, I, and it was three months that he was gone, so that probably checks out with the twilight right here. So he's gone for three months.
Speaker 2:She's at this party across the lake some great Gatsby style, she went to the mansion across the lake.
Speaker 1:She ends up meeting the owner of the house and he's like you won't dance which I'll great another man more problems.
Speaker 1:But she's like, okay, like she's really trying to now at this point, move on a little bit, but not move on in that sense because she's very big on trying to get out of her depressive. Yeah, she's very big on, I will wait, however long it takes. I'm taking care of his house, I'm going to be here when he gets back, regardless, so that like she's never looking for another partner but she's like trained just to live again a little bit. And good old Archie boy shows up in his tux and she's like, and their eyes lock from across the room and the suspenseful music starts playing.
Speaker 1:Gatsby boy is like well, clearly you're taking deuces all good, my dude, I'll go find somebody else actually, and so she's like you're here and he's like yep, I don't know, I don't actually remember what he says, but they're like let's get out of here.
Speaker 2:They get out, they leave and he's driving now. Like you know, he took his uncle's truck, so they start driving home and then she's like let me out of this car. Like she's having her break down like an year old would at that point like wait a second which is fair, valid.
Speaker 1:I felt like her getting in that car with him and I get that. She always knew she was going to stay with Archer bottom line. But like the forgiveness so early, why let them off?
Speaker 2:that easy you get.
Speaker 1:You can't, like you're not saying nothing to him, right? You said, yeah, let's go sure. But then kind of reality hits. She lets him have it and she gets out of car and she's like you are gone, you left. And he's like let me just explain. Get in the car, blah, blah, blah. So they have this moment. It's probably raining, realistically because it's an intense scene, and that's what happens especially if this gets made into a movie, it'll be it's raining. It's raining. She's in a gown, her hair is wet.
Speaker 2:She's crying a little bit, but somehow her makeup does.
Speaker 1:Her makeup is fine, his tie is like loosened a little bit, one button undone, and he's like just just get in the car. Oh, he can't take me off, just get in the car, brie. Anyway, I can see it, I can. You know what? Y'all make this into an adaptation. You guys just have us come down, we'll fly down, we'll help you out. Okay, you'll have to remind me he can't talk, but that's okay. Okay, back on the boat, okay, um, she's gotta come to her senses. Sorry, hi, ho hope we can talk there she goes.
Speaker 2:We're almost there. We're almost there, we're doing so good.
Speaker 1:So, essentially, he goes and he does all the things that he said he was going to do. He lives, he's experiencing life.
Speaker 2:He got a job.
Speaker 1:More than any of my exes could ever do, like he did all the things. What did you say More than?
Speaker 2:any of my exes could ever do. Got a job in three months.
Speaker 1:That's fast Got daddy's money. Yeah, he does all the things that he said he was going to do and he's just feeling so much better. He feels like he has a place in this world, whether it's with or not, which was important because he felt like he was his life.
Speaker 2:I'm all about unhealthy and toxic over here.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:Wrong In the past, in the past.
Speaker 1:We've turned a new leaf 2024, going to be our year. What year did you and Eric start dating?
Speaker 2:2021. 2021. It shouldn't have taken me that long to answer. Sorry, honey.
Speaker 1:Detest detest.
Speaker 2:Anyway, I was homeschooled. Ok, I'm bad at math.
Speaker 1:Ha, ha, ha ha. Give her a moment, she'll get it. She'll get it Ha ha ha ha, I'm going to start snorting and then we're going to get the problem. Ok, woo hoo, bring it back Back in the boat. Ok, so they make up.
Speaker 2:I was worried we weren't going to be funny enough to oh great OK.
Speaker 1:So they make up everything's hunky dory.
Speaker 2:Perfect little life now.
Speaker 1:Yep. Well, they go to breakfast the next morning at the diner.
Speaker 2:Oh my god.
Speaker 1:And everything's great.
Speaker 2:And that's when I knew something was forking up. I was like everything is going so well. All of a sudden, oh no.
Speaker 1:And they're sitting there and then all of a sudden she stands up and the guy that had killed her dad walks in the diner and can you? And he has a gun. And there's a moment Chaos Archer ends up standing in front of her.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, he says something to her, to the suspect. The suspect looks at Brie and it's like you, stupid bitch, you think you're going to ruin my life. My dad cut me out of the company and everything Turns out it was this really rich man's stronghold son, you ruined my life.
Speaker 1:Yep, you know who I am. My dad was going to hand over the company to me before you pointed your finger. Do you think I'm going to let you walk away while I lose everything?
Speaker 2:And Brie was like. Well, I uh.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and he's standing there. He has a gun. Archer gets up, stands in front of her Jumps in front of her and he ends up getting shot. And then Travis shows up and ends up shooting the guy. Thank, God.
Speaker 2:He did his job as the cop.
Speaker 1:You do one good thing and all of a sudden you're a redeeming character. This is when Q, the clip of me crying in the chair. Thank you, mom. I'm going to have to go to the gym. I'm going to go to the gym. I'm going to go to the gym.
Speaker 2:I'm going to go to the gym. Ah, this is where this is when I started stopping. Completely understandable, because I was doing this, going Ah, ah, ah. And then Eric comes over. From what Are you good?
Speaker 1:And then heads on to him like no, yeah, I was not OK, because I was like I really thought they finally did the work.
Speaker 2:We held that together and now I thought for sure Now he's going to die. I thought for sure he was gone.
Speaker 1:I thought, for sure, he was gone, and so there's a poem, the poem.
Speaker 2:You got your reading.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to read it. Ok, do you want me to read it out loud it?
Speaker 2:was really good In class.
Speaker 1:I'm not doing that, there's no way. Sorry, I'm no poet. Readers, read it, it's good. Anyway, there's a poem and then the first line of the next page is the whole town gathered in honor of Archer Hale. I was done, he's dead, he's dead. I was sobbing, stupid book. I literally was like I can't.
Speaker 2:We should just pick another book. We could do another episode.
Speaker 1:I'm sitting in the chair holding my head. Ok, got it. He's not freaking dead. Surprise, surprise. That was like the biggest fake out that I've ever had. I thought, for sure, that was how this was going to end, she's got a lot of books, guys.
Speaker 2:If she says that, that's a statement.
Speaker 1:I really did. I thought he was going to be dead and that was going to be the end of it. She was more than likely going to be pregnant or something, and so the Archer name she was going to pass it on. That's where I thought this was going. No, nope, he's alive. He made it. That's one tough SOV, not we shot once but twice, and then he just.
Speaker 2:Both times the shooter wasn't aiming at him either. That guy needs to get the fork away from him. Got bad, yeah, he's got yeah. That's where I'm looking for.
Speaker 1:Strong magnetic field for those. So he does end up living and he ends up saying that he's going to take over the town, he's going to take the property that is owed to him. Everybody knows at this point that he is the oldest son, tori.
Speaker 2:Hale kind of tucked her tail and got the fuck out of dodge. She realized she lost.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so that's really what they're gathering for? Is him telling everybody that that's what's happening?
Speaker 2:Hear ye, hear ye, I rule the town yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, he's kind of funny during it and he has an interpreter there so he can sign.
Speaker 2:And the people in town were signing to him, yeah, so this book was really cool about showing teaching people to be better for other people.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and a big thing in the town was he's a kid that had something horrifically bad happen to him and that was essentially it. So he ends up taking ownership of the town. And then we get to the epilogue and they have twin boys, which is so cute and what a bunseme conner I don't remember what the other one's name does and she is pregnant and she said it's a boy, you know. And he said that's because that's what these hailed guys have, and I was like OK, got it, I'll let it slide because you're nice. Another thing somebody who has had a child. If I have to give birth when the power goes out, and it's just me and Justin there, no, no, no, no, no, and it was so quick. It's just like her water broke. The power went out, oh, here it comes.
Speaker 1:Maybe he's here and they're like, ok, hallmark sure, yeah, I was in labor for like 13 hours. What do you mean?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so again, still nobody has a cell phone, because I don't care what kind of storm is happening.
Speaker 1:Oh, they did.
Speaker 2:There was no service. Oh yeah, Of course there would be, of course, I couldn't get a call out, but you're telling me that none of her friends would come by. Like I would get in my kayak and kayak to your house and if I knew, we were in no power and you were having a baby like. Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1:That's so traumatizing, like to me. I get that. It was like a sweet moment and that's what the vibe was. That is traumatizing. No, and granted, it might just be, because my baby was actually massive in 99% how everything. I'm just kidding, I'm kidding everyone. It was really big, so maybe that's why I just think that would just Be the worst case scenario. Maybe, if it was an average size baby, be different. I don't know. I'll quite literally don't know, but I did not like that either.
Speaker 2:It's stressful, no children and was stressed.
Speaker 1:With like candlelight, like stop it. I was like Okay, switch to call the midwife, like are we still in the same book? Yeah, I did not, it was. I get what they were going for, but I was like weird, unnecessary. I don't like it, but it was a girl. So they have two boys and a girl, very happily, ever after Tied in a bow love that.
Speaker 2:I love it when I was a good ending.
Speaker 1:I will. If it's not a happily ever after, I can guarantee you I'm gonna hate the book, literally throw this out the window what was that? Yeah, so Happy ending. All in all, I gave it four stars. I Would give it five. You're gonna give it five stars. I love golden five.
Speaker 2:Okay, so like I'm a book person, but Kylie will always finish the book first. Kylie could probably name five authors before me, kind of thing. I loved this book and we're reading more romance.
Speaker 1:It was really adding it.
Speaker 2:It was really hard for me to like finish that I really didn't think I was a romance book person. I am, I is, I are. This was so good.
Speaker 1:I love this book. Susie tends to Extremely lead towards thrillers and mysteries, so this is good news for everybody.
Speaker 2:I always want to add to it with your ice coffee. Yeah, ice coffee. Thrillers, stressful book series, lack of sleep, multiple Corgis, you name it.
Speaker 1:So from Bri I kind of pictured her as like an Anna Kendrick. So okay, and this is more specifically the scene where she's like dropping everything and she's like talking and talking and she's really good at that you can put me out of my misery at any time, like Anna Kendrick, for me immediately and then for my man Archer.
Speaker 2:It was Logan Something it was somebody with nice hair. I remember you showing me like I need to pick another one.
Speaker 1:Logan Lurman. But like longer hair, big fan, big fan there, that kind of vibe. Yes, that was Archer.
Speaker 2:You had it. Mine was Alex Petty for pedifer and then Amelia Clark as Bri. Oh, I see that the quirkiness, awkwardness, the good like. And like the green eyes, I remember him talking about her eyes a lot. And then for Travis, john Hamm, because John Hamm plays a Toolbag cop in every movie, like love you. I know you're not a bad person, john, but it was just too fitting for Travis.
Speaker 1:I, I didn't really pick anybody out for Travis but me. Do you know the show Reacher? You know that the blonde the main guy, yeah maybe like him bad, from Blue Mountain State that's who that guy is. Sort of watching that guy.
Speaker 2:I had a really hard time watching Reacher cuz my dad was like to show it's so good, it's like the guy is amazing. I was like okay. And then I saw him.
Speaker 1:I was like You're gonna be serious. Right now I can't take you seriously. So that was. That was my fancast.
Speaker 2:I liked yours. I always like how different ours are every time, like they're very different, but they're always really oh yeah.
Speaker 1:What see that? What's interesting is I always, typically when I read, the girl is always a blonde, which I don't understand why, but to me it's always a blonde.
Speaker 2:Okay, I thought I was the only one that did that to me. They're always either jet black hair or blonde, no in between. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I guess not really this one, though, because this one I did think she was a Burnett, and Archer was definitely a Burnett for me.
Speaker 2:I only I've. I, dumbass, wanted him to be blonde, so bad for like half the episode, half the book, but I was like, no, she's definitely right. Like he's not blonde, I can't use that person.
Speaker 1:I think book talk did a great job with this one. Yes, so maybe maybe we'll take some other considerations. Most definitely, yeah, but that is gonna be it for our first episode.
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Speaker 1:Okay, that's gonna be it for us. Bye.
