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I got this audiobook in exchange for an honest review.
Honestly, I wasn't expecting much when it came to this book. I thought it was just going to be yet another Hunger Games, Divergent, or insert 100+ different titles and I have to say I was really pleasantly surprised. When it comes to young adult books it seems that most of them miss the mark and simply copycat story lines but this was a great book. It does borrow elements from other stories but it twists them in new and refreshing ways. I loved how well written the characters were and the emotions that were portrayed.
As to the audiobook portion of my review: The narrators of the book were amazing. I usually end up finishing the audiobook by reading the last few pages (I read faster) but the narrators kept me coming back for the story. I could really feel the characters come to life through their voices. I'm definitely going to have to find other books narrated by them.
David Estes created a great book that combines young adult, slight romance, and adventure all in one. I'm definitely going to have to recommend this book to everyone looking for a fun new read. I only wish that it was available at Barnes and Nobel (not through the market place) because this would definitely be my next staff recommendation.
Honestly, I wasn't expecting much when it came to this book. I thought it was just going to be yet another Hunger Games, Divergent, or insert 100+ different titles and I have to say I was really pleasantly surprised. When it comes to young adult books it seems that most of them miss the mark and simply copycat story lines but this was a great book. It does borrow elements from other stories but it twists them in new and refreshing ways. I loved how well written the characters were and the emotions that were portrayed.
As to the audiobook portion of my review: The narrators of the book were amazing. I usually end up finishing the audiobook by reading the last few pages (I read faster) but the narrators kept me coming back for the story. I could really feel the characters come to life through their voices. I'm definitely going to have to find other books narrated by them.
David Estes created a great book that combines young adult, slight romance, and adventure all in one. I'm definitely going to have to recommend this book to everyone looking for a fun new read. I only wish that it was available at Barnes and Nobel (not through the market place) because this would definitely be my next staff recommendation.
Overall, I really enjoyed this book. The first few chapters I had a problem getting into the book as it was a bit slow. I took a break, switched books, and when I picked [b:The Moon Dwellers|13931214|The Moon Dwellers (The Dwellers, #1)|David Estes|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1339737488s/13931214.jpg|19566155] back up I finished in under a day. It had a nice balance of plot, action, and great characters.
This book was really good! I loved that the perspective changed from Adele to Tristan, as it was nice to see things from both points of view. This book was just action packed all the way around, with a great plot idea, and even better characters. I can't wait for the next one!
I received a copy of this book from the author to read and review, and I'm feeling very fortunate that I lucked out on this one :) The only problem is that it's one of three, and now I have to read the other two to see how the story goes!
This book tells the beginning of the tale of Adele and Tristan, two teens that live completely opposite lives from each other in a post-Armageddon world where a meteor forced everyone to move underground and live in caves. Tristan is a sun-dweller, one of the elite that lives in the sun realm and has a charmed life. He's actually the son of the president, but he is nothing like his power-hungry father. Adele, on the other hand, is a moon dweller, the daughter of a lower-class family who is torn apart after a raid. Her parents are assumed dead, her sister sent to an orphanage, and she is thrown in prison for life under a nebulous "treason" charge. One day, Tristan is in a parade through town, and when he catches the eye of Adele, they both feel an inexplicable pain that is so severe, they nearly lose consciousness. Neither of them can explain it, but it propels Tristan to find Adele and see why this is happening. Adele is more concerned with escaping prison and finding her sister, because obviously, a commoner like her would never be able to speak with the son of the president. Adventures ensue.
I really enjoyed this book! Although there are some undercurrents of romance, I really appreciated that it wasn't really the focal point of the story. There was a lot of action that moved the plot along quickly, making this a good read for anyone. A lot of these sorts of books tend to be a little more geared towards female readers, but this felt balanced to me. (I mean that in a stereotypical sense; I don't really attribute one thing or another to any particular gender.)
I look forward to the rest of the series!
This book tells the beginning of the tale of Adele and Tristan, two teens that live completely opposite lives from each other in a post-Armageddon world where a meteor forced everyone to move underground and live in caves. Tristan is a sun-dweller, one of the elite that lives in the sun realm and has a charmed life. He's actually the son of the president, but he is nothing like his power-hungry father. Adele, on the other hand, is a moon dweller, the daughter of a lower-class family who is torn apart after a raid. Her parents are assumed dead, her sister sent to an orphanage, and she is thrown in prison for life under a nebulous "treason" charge. One day, Tristan is in a parade through town, and when he catches the eye of Adele, they both feel an inexplicable pain that is so severe, they nearly lose consciousness. Neither of them can explain it, but it propels Tristan to find Adele and see why this is happening. Adele is more concerned with escaping prison and finding her sister, because obviously, a commoner like her would never be able to speak with the son of the president. Adventures ensue.
I really enjoyed this book! Although there are some undercurrents of romance, I really appreciated that it wasn't really the focal point of the story. There was a lot of action that moved the plot along quickly, making this a good read for anyone. A lot of these sorts of books tend to be a little more geared towards female readers, but this felt balanced to me. (I mean that in a stereotypical sense; I don't really attribute one thing or another to any particular gender.)
I look forward to the rest of the series!
*i received a copy for frree in exchange for a honest review*
I love end of the world books, and this one was one of the good ones :]
I loved the characters. The writing was very good, I felt what they felt while they felt it and i love that!
2 POV is always a plus for me, i love getting to see both sides to the same story. I really loved how he would go back when he switched characters and let you see how they went though the same issue as the other. I feel like it really makes a book so much better when you can live though things with more than one character.
I really like the fact that they were living underground,i haven't yet read a book with them living underground. The details given really helped me pictured the tunnels and layout, part of me wishes to live underground now :]
Overall this book kept me interested throughout and I just kept wanting to read more :]
I love end of the world books, and this one was one of the good ones :]
I loved the characters. The writing was very good, I felt what they felt while they felt it and i love that!
2 POV is always a plus for me, i love getting to see both sides to the same story. I really loved how he would go back when he switched characters and let you see how they went though the same issue as the other. I feel like it really makes a book so much better when you can live though things with more than one character.
I really like the fact that they were living underground,i haven't yet read a book with them living underground. The details given really helped me pictured the tunnels and layout, part of me wishes to live underground now :]
Overall this book kept me interested throughout and I just kept wanting to read more :]
This is one of the best books I've read this year. I was hooked from page 1! I loved the concept of the tri-relms: the sun dwellers, moon dwellers and star dwellers. I loved how the book swapped voice from Adele to Tristan so we got to experience the same events from different perspectives. It has everything you want in an dystopian, the battle for good to over-come evil, for the less-privileged to fight the more-privileged. I loved all the characters and felt like their battle was mine.
This one ended with enough anticipation for the next book in the series but not so much a cliff hanger that I need to put my life on hold to get to the next book. I really hate books that end in a way that you aren't satisfied until you read the next book. That said I'm very much looking forward to the next book.
I received a complimentary copy in exchange for my honest review.
This one ended with enough anticipation for the next book in the series but not so much a cliff hanger that I need to put my life on hold to get to the next book. I really hate books that end in a way that you aren't satisfied until you read the next book. That said I'm very much looking forward to the next book.
I received a complimentary copy in exchange for my honest review.
The Moon Dwellers is the first book in a series of four by David Estes. The point of view was split between two main characters, Adele and Tristan, with the entire story narrated in the first person.
The Moon Dwellers added a new twist to the usual dystopian world. In this dystopian tale the world resulted from a major catastrophe that brought citizens beneath the Earth’s surface. The author created a vivid and believable world in the Tri-Realms and did an excellent job of portraying it.
If I didn’t know it so well, the 14th subchapter might be a stunning sight, with an arching roof coated by the glossy sheen of the panel lighting that controls our days and nights. The cavern was excavated more than two hundred years ago, and covers more than five square miles. Most of the rough and jagged rocks were smoothed over, huge stone support columns built, stone roads laid, and houses and buildings erected.
The challenge with writing a dystopian novel comes in two parts: not only is there pressure to make the world in which the characters live an authentic one but you also have to create a believable history as to why things are the way they are. Estes was able to succeed in both components. He created a strong historical background and was able to provide the reader with an intricate, complex world.
Weird that we’re called moon dwellers. We’re still stuck on earth. Well, not on earth so much as in it, at least a mile below the deadly surface. I’m not sure who the idiot was who decided to call us moon dwellers, but I’d guess he or she was a sun dweller. It seems like most of the dumb ideas come from them. In school they told us that the logic behind the names is related to how bright each light source appears in the sky. For example, the sun appears the brightest - at least that’s what we’re told and how it looks in the pictures - and therefore, those nearest to the surface should be called sun dwellers. We are next and are like the moon, second brightest. At the bottom, of course, are the star dwellers, miles from the earth’s surface.
The many layers the reader had the chance to discover while reading made this book quite interesting. The light panels, for example, were something quite advanced especially for living in caves. Society was able to make the system work even though they were forced to flee underground and that added a great credibility to the storyline.
The characters were thoroughly fleshed out and the author managed to make each one very individualistic. From the beginning of the story the reader knew that Adele’s situation was a difficult one. But instead of just explaining that to us, Estes was able to incorporate Adele’s circumstance into her personality.
For a moment I can’t speak. I worry that my stay-away-from-me vibe disappeared, but then I check and find it’s still here. And yet this girl penetrated my defenses and dared to communicate with me? My first thought: There must be something wrong with her.
Adele stayed consistent throughout the story. She was very strong and had a tough exterior but there was history and a purpose behind it. Another great aspect to Adele was the relationship that she had with her father.
He always seemed to have a twinkle in his eye and a bounce in his step, no matter how tired he was. Sometimes he even gave me a piggyback ride before he got cleaned up. My mother hated it when he did that, because then I’d have to take a bath before supper, too.
God, how I love my father.
I love my mother, too, but in a different way. She isn’t as playful as my father, is quicker to punish, and is less rebellious toward the sun dwellers.
Even though most of what we saw between Adele and her father came in flashbacks, the reader felt the connection and was able to appreciate how much she cared for him.
Tristan did not come off as likeable as Adele did from the first time we met him but instead he appeared to be a typical cliche male teenager who seemed somewhat shallow.
Then I see her. She’s a prisoner, nothing to me. A random dark-haired prisoner. And yet I can’t pull my eyes away from her. She’s pretty hot, but not train-stopping hot. So why am I staring at her?
The author was able to prove that Tristan was much more complex than he first came off to be. A feat that could have been challenging but was well executed. Whereas Adele was a moon dweller, Tristan was a sun dweller and the reader was able to see how differently the two worlds lived. Tristan had a very different relationship with his parents than Adele and inadvertently his perception of things were also different.
There isn’t much to believe in these days. I once believed in the love of a mother, but then she left me. I used to believe in honor, in chivalry, in the power that one person has to enact real, positive change in the world. My mother taught me all that. It vanished when she did.
The reader was able to connect with Tristan in a different way because of his situation. He was desperate to feel something that was taken away from him and the reader pushed forward hoping to find the answer right along with him.
The secondary characters played important roles in helping the protagonists go forward in this story. Estes produced supporting characters with multifarious personalities. None of the characters were unimportant and they all had their purposes with different characters.
Roc stops, grabs my shoulders with both hands, forces me to look at him. His dark eyes are serious. “Blaming yourself is like a curse eating you from within, a rogue virus, cancerous and poisonous. It will drive you mad if you let it. You’re my friend and I hate to see you like this. And your mother would hate to see her disappearance cause you to self-destruct.”
Though Roc was Tristan’s servant he had a great influence on his friend and was able to see Tristan through thick and thin. Even when he didn’t agree with the situation at hand he helped Tristan along. Without Roc, Tristan might not have gone where he needed to and the reader was able to recognize that.
While the setting and character development were consistent the storyline struggled some throughout. There were new plot points added as the story went along but the reader was left asking some of the same questions at the end as we had in the beginning. Also, the dialogue was frustrating at times. The character’s thoughts were worded well while we were in their point of view but the dialogue seemed overly basic and inconsistent.
“Have you met Tristan before?”
“No,” I say.
“Then how’d he know your name?”
“From the news I s’pose.”
Adele was an intelligent girl, you could tell by her thinking process and her actions but then she would say something like “s’pose” and the reader was thrown off.
Most of the chapters overlapped when the point of view changed. Readers who are not keen on backtracking might get distracted from the story at times but this is only a minor quirk that has the ability to be overlooked.
The unique facet about this book is that there was something here for everyone. The Moon Dwellers had action and intrigue and a touch of romance but was still appropriate for the whole family; not many stories can do that. The fact that there are three more books proceeding this one only adds that much more to the series. Here is an author that can bring all of us a little bit closer together.
The Moon Dwellers added a new twist to the usual dystopian world. In this dystopian tale the world resulted from a major catastrophe that brought citizens beneath the Earth’s surface. The author created a vivid and believable world in the Tri-Realms and did an excellent job of portraying it.
If I didn’t know it so well, the 14th subchapter might be a stunning sight, with an arching roof coated by the glossy sheen of the panel lighting that controls our days and nights. The cavern was excavated more than two hundred years ago, and covers more than five square miles. Most of the rough and jagged rocks were smoothed over, huge stone support columns built, stone roads laid, and houses and buildings erected.
The challenge with writing a dystopian novel comes in two parts: not only is there pressure to make the world in which the characters live an authentic one but you also have to create a believable history as to why things are the way they are. Estes was able to succeed in both components. He created a strong historical background and was able to provide the reader with an intricate, complex world.
Weird that we’re called moon dwellers. We’re still stuck on earth. Well, not on earth so much as in it, at least a mile below the deadly surface. I’m not sure who the idiot was who decided to call us moon dwellers, but I’d guess he or she was a sun dweller. It seems like most of the dumb ideas come from them. In school they told us that the logic behind the names is related to how bright each light source appears in the sky. For example, the sun appears the brightest - at least that’s what we’re told and how it looks in the pictures - and therefore, those nearest to the surface should be called sun dwellers. We are next and are like the moon, second brightest. At the bottom, of course, are the star dwellers, miles from the earth’s surface.
The many layers the reader had the chance to discover while reading made this book quite interesting. The light panels, for example, were something quite advanced especially for living in caves. Society was able to make the system work even though they were forced to flee underground and that added a great credibility to the storyline.
The characters were thoroughly fleshed out and the author managed to make each one very individualistic. From the beginning of the story the reader knew that Adele’s situation was a difficult one. But instead of just explaining that to us, Estes was able to incorporate Adele’s circumstance into her personality.
For a moment I can’t speak. I worry that my stay-away-from-me vibe disappeared, but then I check and find it’s still here. And yet this girl penetrated my defenses and dared to communicate with me? My first thought: There must be something wrong with her.
Adele stayed consistent throughout the story. She was very strong and had a tough exterior but there was history and a purpose behind it. Another great aspect to Adele was the relationship that she had with her father.
He always seemed to have a twinkle in his eye and a bounce in his step, no matter how tired he was. Sometimes he even gave me a piggyback ride before he got cleaned up. My mother hated it when he did that, because then I’d have to take a bath before supper, too.
God, how I love my father.
I love my mother, too, but in a different way. She isn’t as playful as my father, is quicker to punish, and is less rebellious toward the sun dwellers.
Even though most of what we saw between Adele and her father came in flashbacks, the reader felt the connection and was able to appreciate how much she cared for him.
Tristan did not come off as likeable as Adele did from the first time we met him but instead he appeared to be a typical cliche male teenager who seemed somewhat shallow.
Then I see her. She’s a prisoner, nothing to me. A random dark-haired prisoner. And yet I can’t pull my eyes away from her. She’s pretty hot, but not train-stopping hot. So why am I staring at her?
The author was able to prove that Tristan was much more complex than he first came off to be. A feat that could have been challenging but was well executed. Whereas Adele was a moon dweller, Tristan was a sun dweller and the reader was able to see how differently the two worlds lived. Tristan had a very different relationship with his parents than Adele and inadvertently his perception of things were also different.
There isn’t much to believe in these days. I once believed in the love of a mother, but then she left me. I used to believe in honor, in chivalry, in the power that one person has to enact real, positive change in the world. My mother taught me all that. It vanished when she did.
The reader was able to connect with Tristan in a different way because of his situation. He was desperate to feel something that was taken away from him and the reader pushed forward hoping to find the answer right along with him.
The secondary characters played important roles in helping the protagonists go forward in this story. Estes produced supporting characters with multifarious personalities. None of the characters were unimportant and they all had their purposes with different characters.
Roc stops, grabs my shoulders with both hands, forces me to look at him. His dark eyes are serious. “Blaming yourself is like a curse eating you from within, a rogue virus, cancerous and poisonous. It will drive you mad if you let it. You’re my friend and I hate to see you like this. And your mother would hate to see her disappearance cause you to self-destruct.”
Though Roc was Tristan’s servant he had a great influence on his friend and was able to see Tristan through thick and thin. Even when he didn’t agree with the situation at hand he helped Tristan along. Without Roc, Tristan might not have gone where he needed to and the reader was able to recognize that.
While the setting and character development were consistent the storyline struggled some throughout. There were new plot points added as the story went along but the reader was left asking some of the same questions at the end as we had in the beginning. Also, the dialogue was frustrating at times. The character’s thoughts were worded well while we were in their point of view but the dialogue seemed overly basic and inconsistent.
“Have you met Tristan before?”
“No,” I say.
“Then how’d he know your name?”
“From the news I s’pose.”
Adele was an intelligent girl, you could tell by her thinking process and her actions but then she would say something like “s’pose” and the reader was thrown off.
Most of the chapters overlapped when the point of view changed. Readers who are not keen on backtracking might get distracted from the story at times but this is only a minor quirk that has the ability to be overlooked.
The unique facet about this book is that there was something here for everyone. The Moon Dwellers had action and intrigue and a touch of romance but was still appropriate for the whole family; not many stories can do that. The fact that there are three more books proceeding this one only adds that much more to the series. Here is an author that can bring all of us a little bit closer together.
It's "The Hunger Games" meets "City of Ember", as directed by Jerry Bruckheimer. The world-building is implausible and the characters thin, but the plot rattles along with such speed and enthusiasm that I was never bored.
adventurous
emotional
funny
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
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To be honest, I've only read 2 (YA) dystopia books and the one that I liked was The Hunger Games. Generally I like the dystopian concept but I find that I have trouble really getting into the story because there's so much to take in. Dystopian settings are so much to digest let alone the story itself.
I decided to give The Moon Dwellers a shot because of two things: 1) "forced underground" and 2) David Estes is super nice! Okay reason number 2 sounds like I'm sucking up but whatever.
Primarily what I liked about The Moon Dwellers are the vivid descriptions. Action packed scenes (which were a lot) were really told in detail - not just generic terms to indicate pain say inflicted by a punch to the gut and whatnot. Aside from that, since this is set in a world so different, it was nice that David Estes was able to pain a picture of how the underground Tri-Realms look, from the structures, the characters, down to their outfits. Although at one point, wherein Tristan used the word "tunic" to describe how "hot" Adele looks, I can't help but laugh. It was a bit funny (funny weird and funny ha ha at the same time) but it wasn't entirely odd. Just... funny.
Another thing I liked in particular was the pacing. I wasn't hurried into getting a feel of the conflict but at the same time it wasn't so slow that I had to skip a lot of pages just to get through it. I just hate it when some books (not just dystopian) just feed me the conflict without really helping me get into it. You know? The story slowed at key parts where you really need to take the time to read delicate back stories about certain characters without having to dwell too much on it. It was just right.
I also liked that the story was told from two alternating perspectives: Adele's and Tristan's. I liked that some chapters were connected to the one previous to or before it. Even if Adele and Tristan were in two different places, it's like their stories either go within one story line or they lead to one point. I think this helped keep the momentum going, which also contributed to how smoothly the story went.
I didn't really pay much attention to the love angle, or the insta love angle. Looking at it now though it's great that the love angle was inserted subtly, at least that's how I saw it. The attraction between Adele and Tristan was rooted from the weird painful physical connection that they had. My take on it is, the were curious at first but their feelings grew along the way. It was nothing wild or loud or I profess my undying love for you! It was just... there. Like I said, it was subtle to me.
Perhaps my only issue is how late the history background came. It's typical among dystopia novels to have the back story as to how the new world came to be in the beginning of the book. But in The Moon Dwellers, it was told a few chapters in, in one of Tristan's chapters to be specific. While I appreciate that it was written in Tristan's POV (because the back story involved his bloodline), I still think it came a bit late. Before that chapter all I was thinking of was, why are they underground? Isn't it hot the nearer to you get to the Earth's core? Yeah... I tend to over think things.
Lastly, and this is the reason why I'm giving this review a 5 out of 5 despite my little issues, I think the character development is superb! I've always said that the only way for me to give a book a 5-star rating is if it gives me a hangover. Considering the fact that this book is first in a trilogy, it's bound to leave you hanging. But a hangover is different - it's the pull that makes you want to continue reading or to read it again. That same pull that leaves you wishing the characters in the book were real and that you're friends with them. I've read books with sequels that weren't very engaging so even if it did have a cliffhanger, I didn't bother reading the next books. The Moon Dwellers had a lineup of characters that would really leave you attached to the story so much so that they'll make you laugh with them, cry with them, celebrate with them.
I highly recommend that you read The Moon Dwellers. If you liked The Hunger Games, then I bet you'll like this too. Well formed plot, remarkable set of characters, overall great writing - what more can you ask for?
Side note/P.S.
I know it resembled a bit of The Hunger Games in terms of the power struggle, i.e. the poorer realms give the rich realm supplies, the rich realm lives lavishly while the poorer ones suffer etc etc. Even if this is present, I didn't factor it in in this review because in dystopian books there's has to be a class/power struggle. I'm only saying this as a "side note" because I want to give the future readers a heads up... before you go saying stuff like "this is just like The Hunger Games yada yada yada." Keep in mind that what makes THG different is well... THE HUNGER GAMES. The Moon Dwellers' plot is different but equally exciting.
To be honest, I've only read 2 (YA) dystopia books and the one that I liked was The Hunger Games. Generally I like the dystopian concept but I find that I have trouble really getting into the story because there's so much to take in. Dystopian settings are so much to digest let alone the story itself.
I decided to give The Moon Dwellers a shot because of two things: 1) "forced underground" and 2) David Estes is super nice! Okay reason number 2 sounds like I'm sucking up but whatever.
Primarily what I liked about The Moon Dwellers are the vivid descriptions. Action packed scenes (which were a lot) were really told in detail - not just generic terms to indicate pain say inflicted by a punch to the gut and whatnot. Aside from that, since this is set in a world so different, it was nice that David Estes was able to pain a picture of how the underground Tri-Realms look, from the structures, the characters, down to their outfits. Although at one point, wherein Tristan used the word "tunic" to describe how "hot" Adele looks, I can't help but laugh. It was a bit funny (funny weird and funny ha ha at the same time) but it wasn't entirely odd. Just... funny.
Another thing I liked in particular was the pacing. I wasn't hurried into getting a feel of the conflict but at the same time it wasn't so slow that I had to skip a lot of pages just to get through it. I just hate it when some books (not just dystopian) just feed me the conflict without really helping me get into it. You know? The story slowed at key parts where you really need to take the time to read delicate back stories about certain characters without having to dwell too much on it. It was just right.
I also liked that the story was told from two alternating perspectives: Adele's and Tristan's. I liked that some chapters were connected to the one previous to or before it. Even if Adele and Tristan were in two different places, it's like their stories either go within one story line or they lead to one point. I think this helped keep the momentum going, which also contributed to how smoothly the story went.
I didn't really pay much attention to the love angle, or the insta love angle. Looking at it now though it's great that the love angle was inserted subtly, at least that's how I saw it. The attraction between Adele and Tristan was rooted from the weird painful physical connection that they had. My take on it is, the were curious at first but their feelings grew along the way. It was nothing wild or loud or I profess my undying love for you! It was just... there. Like I said, it was subtle to me.
Perhaps my only issue is how late the history background came. It's typical among dystopia novels to have the back story as to how the new world came to be in the beginning of the book. But in The Moon Dwellers, it was told a few chapters in, in one of Tristan's chapters to be specific. While I appreciate that it was written in Tristan's POV (because the back story involved his bloodline), I still think it came a bit late. Before that chapter all I was thinking of was, why are they underground? Isn't it hot the nearer to you get to the Earth's core? Yeah... I tend to over think things.
Lastly, and this is the reason why I'm giving this review a 5 out of 5 despite my little issues, I think the character development is superb! I've always said that the only way for me to give a book a 5-star rating is if it gives me a hangover. Considering the fact that this book is first in a trilogy, it's bound to leave you hanging. But a hangover is different - it's the pull that makes you want to continue reading or to read it again. That same pull that leaves you wishing the characters in the book were real and that you're friends with them. I've read books with sequels that weren't very engaging so even if it did have a cliffhanger, I didn't bother reading the next books. The Moon Dwellers had a lineup of characters that would really leave you attached to the story so much so that they'll make you laugh with them, cry with them, celebrate with them.
I highly recommend that you read The Moon Dwellers. If you liked The Hunger Games, then I bet you'll like this too. Well formed plot, remarkable set of characters, overall great writing - what more can you ask for?
Side note/P.S.
I know it resembled a bit of The Hunger Games in terms of the power struggle, i.e. the poorer realms give the rich realm supplies, the rich realm lives lavishly while the poorer ones suffer etc etc. Even if this is present, I didn't factor it in in this review because in dystopian books there's has to be a class/power struggle. I'm only saying this as a "side note" because I want to give the future readers a heads up... before you go saying stuff like "this is just like The Hunger Games yada yada yada." Keep in mind that what makes THG different is well... THE HUNGER GAMES. The Moon Dwellers' plot is different but equally exciting.