Someone is Watching [Paperback]

Mark Roeder (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 4, 2004 | Age Level: 7 and up

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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About the Author

Someone Is Watching is the second novel in the Gay Youth Chronicles, written by Mark A. Roeder. Information on his current and upcoming books can be found at markroeder.com. Those wishing to contact him may reach him at [e-mail]

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 7 and up
  
• Paperback: 286 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse (January 4, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 059529894X
• ISBN-13: 978-0595298945
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #941,064 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Mark A. Roeder currently resides in Bloomington, Indiana and is a full-time writer of novels, columns, and articles. He has published over two dozen novels to date.

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A refreshing tale of love and emotion, no smut here!!, May 24, 2001

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Chase (Johnston, RI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Someone is Watching (Paperback)

This book should be celebrated along with its author!! It is so refreshing to read about the emotional journey of fear, anger, love, and acceptance from a purely intellectual and emotional standpoint. So many works of gay fiction focus on the physical world of desire, flesh, and sex. In "Someone is watching" we learn of the intense struggle Nathan is forced to go through within himself and the people close to him. The author explains the emotions he expierences with amazing clarity. You can't help but fall in love with this character. He first struggles to discover his true self and then is made to defend this new identity in the face of intense opposition only to find true love and acceptance in the end. I laughed and cried right along with him in remeberence of my own journey to self awareness. This book is only one out of the many pieces of fiction I've read that even remotely resembles my life and I am greatly appreciative of the author for representing a lost segment of our community. A must read for sure, especially amoung the younger members of our population.

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Trials of Growing Up Gay, March 17, 2001

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Toby Sanders (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Someone is Watching (Paperback)

This was the first book by Mark Roeder I picked up. I was happy to discover that he managed to capture the internal dialogue in which every gay youngster indulges when first realizing what must be different about him. After reading "Billy's Boy," I didn't think another writer could do as well at bringing the interior world of a gay youth to life. It is all here: the fears, the doubts, the hopes and the dreams. It was amazing to discover a coming of age book without cynicism. In dealing with a real possibility for gay youth from a perspective of affirmation, the author made the relationship that developed between the two main characters, Ethan and Nathan, one of hope. For some, the relationship may seem a fantasy. For me, it made me envy what so many didn't have while growing up.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Suspenseful and a reward, November 1, 2001

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Cambel "cambel" (Washington, DC USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Someone is Watching (Paperback)

This book, about a high school jock just discovering his feelings towards other boys takes a spooky turn when he begins recieving notes in his locker from somebody who apparently has figured out the secret even he just realized about himself. AS he tries to keep a semblance of normalcy he begins to try to figure out who is doing this to him? A friend joking? a girl angry at him? and what about that new Ranch hand his uncle hired who always looks so sad?
A big more upbeat than his first book "Antient Prejudice Break to New Mutiny" with a nice reward at the end for those hopeless romantics out there. I recomend this one for a rainy weekend.