The Watcher
Margaret is a watcher. She likes to go to the beach and watch people, doesn’t say anything, just watches which starts to creep some people out as there is no words escaping from her lips, no changes in her facial expression, she just watches. Margaret does grab her pad of paper putting her thoughts and feelings down on paper. Then we have Evan who hangs out with his younger sister, Callie. Evan would rather be with people his own age but he feels safer with his sister. Chris is a lifeguard who is haunted with an incident that happened even before he was born. His father is an empty shell who cannot get over a tragic accident that claimed the life of Chris’ younger brother, leaving both of them dead to the world. Margaret is looking for something and the two boys might just be the answer she needs.
I loved the cover of this book and I myself am a watcher. I could sit all day at the beach, the mall, the airport, just about anywhere where there is an abundance of people and watch. People are amazing at what they do, what they wear, what they say and how they communicate, they entertain me. I myself could not be silent. That would literally kill me. I am a smiler, a gesture, a talker, and a facial expression person, so Margaret amazed me. If I met Margaret, I would be staring back and watching her. She had issues and later in the book, I figured out those issues where but it wasn’t until I was bored with the whole book. I thought the book was rather slow and it wasn’t until the last third of the book did it start to pick up the pace. I’ve read James Howe before and liked his work; this just wasn’t working for me.
