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Watcher

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This book is the best roswell book i've read so far............................ I've have 1-7 and i'm getting number 8 any day now... In this story Maria FINALLY tells Micheal she loves him. Max is dying and Liz is trying desperately to do anything to comfort him... and Alex and Izabel are going out.....But....... after Izabel and Liz and Maria go into Micheal's dream and see him with his arms around Izabel... Everything seems to change!

Book #4 is a must read. The way Melinda Metz describes things makes you feel like you know the characters. I advise you not to finish this book until you have book #5, because waiting to find out what happens to Max and Micheal is agony.

This is one of best book I have ever read in my life. That and the rest of the Rosewell High books! I would recomed it everyone! The author makes it all seem very real. I couldn't put it down! Please everyone read this book!!!!!!!!!

#4 "The Watcher" does not disappoint! Still packed with the same action and romance, the author does a great job in moving the story foward. I love the science fiction aspect of Michael, Isabel and Max having special powers to heal, see a person's aura and feel what another is feeling. They are truly a tight group who will do anything to help out there fellow friends. Even if it means risking their lives for them. And after introducing Ray (No. 3 the Seeker), the "father" type who comes in and starts to help the 3 learn more about what they can do with their powers and their home planet, we start to understand what their other world was about exactly as they are finding out. She digs deeper in each book of the series about the whole story and each character's backgrounds. The "Watcher" was definitely more powerful to me so far in this series, and I'm sure Ms. Metz will not disappoint with the rest! :)

I read this book fast, cover to cover. Not skipping a page. I could not put it down. I felt so sorry for Liz, as she described watching Max die. Also when Liz found out about ankino, how Metz described the way Liz looked and talked. Just beautiful.

Good day to all those whom enjoy a Sci-fi young adult book's.
I have read and kept all 10 of the first series of ROSWELL. Of all favorites is this one The Watcher. Which I felt it showed unity amongest all four. I rate it as a 15 and beyond.

this book was absolutely fantasic! i loved the Maria/Michael storyline, they make a great couple! i didnt like isabel much in this book though because she was with Alex at the time and she was getting jealous about michael and maria. max is sick because he needs to make a connection and he's dying because he needs a crystal of some sort and liz cant stand seeing him suffer. I recommend this book fully!

By the end of "The Seeker" Maria had a vision of the alien ship that her friends had been searching for so many years. As events unfold in this book the search becomes even more urgent because Max has reached the age by which he must connect with the collective consciousness of his race- or die. The problem is, the teens are too far from "home" to do that without some crystals hidden on board the ship.

As the story develops the romances between Alex and Isabel and Maria/Michael also move along, not quite the way they did in the series. It also turns out that not only does their Adult alien friend have the ability to change his shape,as Nasedo did in the series, but that all of their race can do it- they can even shape shift their human friends and do so in their efforts to find the ship. Liz, posing as a guard, is the first to reach the secret hiding place where "Clean Slate" has the ship. Michael, Isabel and their friend enter the base, Isabel gets the crystals and Michael is captured. this sets up the storyline for book 5.

((Tiny spoilers, but nothing tooo dramatic or affecting!! - so this will be a really short review, or I'll give away too much)) In The Seeker we are left with Max collapsing and Liz begging for him to stay alive (swoon). The Roswell crew learns that Max is going through his species' version of maturity: connecting to the consciousness, "ankino". If Max is not able to connect he will die, and it will only be a matter of time before Michael and Izzy face the same fate. The mission is to find the stones that will allow him to connect. However, these stones are inconveniently located on their ship, which they still have not found.

Out of all the Roswell high installments so far, this one has the most action and conflict, and not excluding the relationships. Liz is watching Max die. At this point she doesn't understand, even more so, why they should just remain friends. Maria and Michael are much closer, and Maria makes a confession of epic proportion! Izzy and Alex are finally dating, even though Izzy still is reeling from Nickolas' death.

Without giving away too much, the Roswell crew comes the closest they ever have been to their ship!! Again, this novel is told from each of the characters' point of view. By far this is the most exciting installment so far. A must read for Roswell fans!!

Metz is an excellent writer, and for the most part Roswell High reflects her literary abilities. All of the books are humorous, serious, and intriguing. I especially appreiciate the contextual continuity between them. After buying books 1 & 2 from a store, I purchased books 3-5, and read them all in a night, the week before finals. Book four, seemed to me, to take a survey-course attitude toward the material at hand. Max's and, to some extent, Liz's reactions to Max's condition were vividly and subtly displayed, but the rest of the characters' responses were not expanded. The cliff-hanger ending was, had it been necessary to wait for the next book, something between excrusiating and annoying (because everyone knows that most series make it a point not to kill the main characters, its bad for readership, but there is still the "what if," x-file fourth-season-finale-feeling.) I do not believe that the aforementioned characteristics in anyway depreciate Metz' literary ability. I believe that the book's seemingly flat nature comes from the restrictions that come with writing in the young adult genre. In my estimation I think that metz should consider asking her publisher whether she or an equally brilliant writer could produce a spin-off Roswell series that would be more indepth and better suited to the broader science-fiction/fantasy audience. Overall, the book (as well as the series) is great. I would love to see this series spin-off, it's characters and plot-lines have an appeal that is ageless. I hope that in the future Roswell High will expand and be enjoyed by a broader audience. Metz' is a truly gifted author.