Review: Boring and unrealistic
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 06 17, 2014
Well, I'm going to break with most of these reviews as I found this book to be boring, boring, boring. I skimmed through most of the last half.The story rushes at the beginning--the couple is in a relationship with lightning speed--but then the author really doesn't have the story telling talent to craft the suspense part of the story. It really fell flat. And you can only go so far with sex and shopping for maternity clothes.I found the plot to be contrived and unrealistic (these adults never once thought that having sex could lead to a baby), and the dialogue is just abysmal. (There's an instant minus, in my opinion, when the couple refer to each other as "baby.")The characters never drew me in--I didn't care about any of them.The character of Selene seemed to be all over the map. Frail and fragile to the point of just silliness, and then she is the cool, calm one to deal with the villain at the end. And the villain... what a dope. Totally unbelievable.The author did try to deal with the theme of being different and not fitting in, but again it was an amateurish effort.The cover is pretty, but frankly, I don't get the title. Who is the watcher, and who's doing the watching? Selene's ability to read people's thoughts when they touch her, doesn't seem like a "watcher." The villain is a peeping tom. Is he the watcher? Or is he the one watching? Or if Selene is supposed to be the watcher, perhaps Brandon is watching, taking care of Selene? So many questions that even if they were answered, would not make this a good book.