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Someone Is Watching (Gay Youth Chronicles) |  | Author: Mark A. Roeder
Publisher: Mark A. Roeder
Category: eBooks
This item is no longer available
Rating:  reviews
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B001S2RDF4
Publication Date: January 4, 2004
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Product Description
This low price edition is offered as an introduction to the Gay Youth Chronicles series. It is the complete novel. If you enjoy this title, check out the other novels in the series!
Someone Is Watching. Someone Knows. It was a nightmare come true for seventeen-year-old Ethan. It's hard hiding a secret. It's even harder keeping that secret when someone else knows. Who is the mysterious note-writer, the secret tormentor? Who is the enemy that hides among Ethan's friends and teammates? Who holds Ethan's secret over his head, threatening to destroy his entire world? Someone Is Watching is the story of a young high school wrestler that must come to grips with being gay. He struggles first with himself, then with an unknown classmate that hounds his every step. While struggling to discover the identity of his tormentor, Ethan must discover his own identity and learn to live his life as his true self. In the end he is faced with a terrible decision. He must give up what he wants the most, or face his greatest fear of all.
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 another super book June 15, 2009
W. Stuart
I can honestly say this is one of my favorite books. The book has multiple story lines and none of them leaves you bored. I thought the story was gripping all the way through. I felt what the main character was feeling whether it was scared, angry or happy.
I also liked the co-characters of Jon, Nathan, Taylor, and Mark.
This is a book that should not be missed.
A classic coming out story April 28, 2009
Noir (Golden State)
I've never been to Indiana or lived on a farm, but the author does a great job of making me wish I did live on a farm experiencing and at the same time repels me from moving to a really small town with a tight-nit community. When Ethan begins to tell his story, I'm drawn into his character slowly discovering things about him that would otherwise repulse others; discovering that he's gay.
Other than Ethan, I really liked Nathan, the farm hand that his Uncle Jack hired to help them out with their huge workload that seems to be endless. He reminds me of myself in a way, quietly working on the task at hand, yet at the same time has eyes that reflect a quiet struggle within himself and outside pressures.
As the book goes on and Ethan slowly begins to progress his infatuation for his best friend, Jon, there is a secret sinister character leaving 'notes' in his locker. Most of these notes made me feel like I was experiencing the fear along with Ethan, because every note seemed to sound more violent and threatening than the last. Somehow, someone has figured out Ethan's deepest secret and is out to get him.
There are other characters that harmonize the story like Taylor and Mark. These two classmates of Ethan seem like regular people on the outside, but they share something just as secretive as Ethan does, but I'll allow you to figure it out the rest.
Then there's Jon, this deep infatuation that Ethan has for his best friend. At times, Ethan looks at Jon as they change in the locker room like a piece of meat to be devoured. Regardless of this, Jon remains Ethan's best friend throughout his trials and is a loyal good natured person.
The larger theme of this story is perhaps discovering one's self and finding a bit of love in between. I must add that there is a bit of angst aswell as injustice that takes place in the book. It takes small little acts of bigotry, to catalyze into one huge situation for the high school to actually see how isolating people and throwing pot shots at them is not only wrong, it can lead to more devastating consequences.
As you progress through the story with Ethan, I hope you notice there are parallels of what happens in Someone is Watching with our own world. How there's hatred everywhere, it permeates from the mouths of schoolchildren. In a fantasy world, everyone would be happy with each other and differences would be something to be enjoyed. In this story however, it's like differences are something to be abhorred.
If you find you like what I've presented so far, please read the book. I promise you'll enjoy the different emotions that the author invokes in you as you relate to the characters.
 A good-enough entry in the gay coming-of-age genre November 18, 2008
William Siwicki (Chicago)
"Someone is Watching" is a good but not great gay coming-of-age tale. It offers something a little different in the form of menace. Other than that, it is pretty standard fare. I recommend this book to gay coming-of-age genre fans. For readers new to this genre, or extremely serious about it, you should start elsewhere. Try "Saints of Augustine" or "Out of the Pocket."
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