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A review by c430
Watchers by Dean Koontz
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, and Murder
Moderate: Animal cruelty and Blood
Minor: Domestic abuse, Islamophobia, and Medical content
A very interesting read that gets into your head and makes it hard to stop thinking about! It is very obvious that the writer is a man and he definitely falls short in writing female characters. All of the women in the book are victims and if they do grow stronger, it's because a man helped them. So that's fun...
Other than that, the characters are interesting. Travis can be a little boring and little more than a vehicle theough which to tell the story, but Einstein is the goodest boy and I would die for him. Vince is a chilling psychopath that has some very interesting and fucked up ideas about life and death. Nora is a woman and that's about as far as the author got. She is a victim of Streck, a man that stalks her and tries to force himself onto her which can be triggering to read. but everything is okay in the end because a man and a dog show up to save her of course! So, the female characters are a little lacking, but otherwise it's a good book.
The Outsider and it's descriptions are horrifying and I can promise that you will imagine its yellow eyes everytime something goes bump in the night.
Good book, a very fun read for the Halloween season.
Don't let a kid read it like I did when I was too young lol