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3.63 AVERAGE
Oh waow!!! This book was amazing!!
First I would like to thank Zee and David for giving me this amazing book for review!
Now moving on, I loved this book, and I too a while to read it not because I thought it was slow but because I had no time at all to read! And I was dying to read this All the time, but school!
The story follows Adele(love the name) who is a moon dweller, and is sentenced forever to life in Pen, other words jail. Unlike most people who would be upset and all, Adele has come to accept it. Enter our dearest male lead, Tristan. Their eyes meet for a moment or so Adele thinks(honestly this part at first made me roll my eyes lol), and they both feel a sort of connection. Which sounds blizzard to Adele because our Tristan is the son of the President, why would he be noticing her? Soon Adele makes friends and decides to escape and find her sister. While on the other hand we have Tristan is a rebellious teen(in this case very justified rebellious) and is to defy his father who is in blunt words a terrible President.
So I will first start off with praising David as an excellent author! I am actually thinking of reading this book again because I want to read it in one sitting! It was just so entertaining. And me being a dystopia lover, this is one was so frikkin gooooooooooooood!
I loved this world(no, not that I would want this to actually happen, it you know what I mean)! It is so new and creative and imaginative! And also what most dystopias are like cruel, stupid laws and divisions among society. Like I usually say "where do authors get these ideas?!"
What ilove most of all, is the two point views we get from both Adele and Tristan. I mean I get very tired of all these YA books I read with only hearing a girl's voice, and now finally hearing a guy's side too(which by the way is very new to me).
So all in all I loved it and looking forward to re-reading! And the sequel! And I would recommend it to YA fans, dystopia addicts and people who have to read a guy's PoV in YA!
FIVE SHINY STARS
First I would like to thank Zee and David for giving me this amazing book for review!
Now moving on, I loved this book, and I too a while to read it not because I thought it was slow but because I had no time at all to read! And I was dying to read this All the time, but school!
The story follows Adele(love the name) who is a moon dweller, and is sentenced forever to life in Pen, other words jail. Unlike most people who would be upset and all, Adele has come to accept it. Enter our dearest male lead, Tristan. Their eyes meet for a moment or so Adele thinks(honestly this part at first made me roll my eyes lol), and they both feel a sort of connection. Which sounds blizzard to Adele because our Tristan is the son of the President, why would he be noticing her? Soon Adele makes friends and decides to escape and find her sister. While on the other hand we have Tristan is a rebellious teen(in this case very justified rebellious) and is to defy his father who is in blunt words a terrible President.
So I will first start off with praising David as an excellent author! I am actually thinking of reading this book again because I want to read it in one sitting! It was just so entertaining. And me being a dystopia lover, this is one was so frikkin gooooooooooooood!
I loved this world(no, not that I would want this to actually happen, it you know what I mean)! It is so new and creative and imaginative! And also what most dystopias are like cruel, stupid laws and divisions among society. Like I usually say "where do authors get these ideas?!"
What ilove most of all, is the two point views we get from both Adele and Tristan. I mean I get very tired of all these YA books I read with only hearing a girl's voice, and now finally hearing a guy's side too(which by the way is very new to me).
So all in all I loved it and looking forward to re-reading! And the sequel! And I would recommend it to YA fans, dystopia addicts and people who have to read a guy's PoV in YA!
FIVE SHINY STARS
I've been wanting to read a David Estes book for ages! I finally get my hands on this one, and after I start he sends me a copy of Slip (which I'm reading right now!!!) In any case, I loved Moon Dwellers, just like I hoped I would. It's so different than most of the dystopian type books out there right now. I haven't seen any evidence of a love triangle, and the world he created is so vastly different than what's been portrayed before. I love the idea of levels of earth coinciding with levels of "class" in the new world after an apocalyptic event. I also love someone higher up in the government getting involved right away on the right side. The pace is fast too, it's the kind of story that you have difficulty putting the book down because you just MUST know what's going to happen next. And the love story involved is so sweet and innocent and being a middle aged woman, I love getting the opportunity to read stories that give me butterflies like I felt when I met my husband. I'm definitely looking forward to moving onto the next book in the series...just as soon as I finish Slip!
This review is basically going to be me making no sense whatsoever because how you can get SO MUCH into one tiny insignificant review?
After reading so many dystopian books, for a few months I thought I'd damaged my love for them. I'd pick up a book and flake out after a few pages. David, you've restored my faith!
The world building was the first thing that really struck me. It's flawless, it's flawed (that makes no sense but it kind of does!) and it's so well done that for a moment, I thought I was running along with Adele and Tristan! In some ways it would remind me of the Chaos Walking trilogy with the dark feel and that hag scared the freaking crap out of me!
There's a section in the scene where the group are travelling through caves and I just have to say this. Do you ever get that feeling when you look up at the stars at night and it kind of hits you that there are so many possibilities and galaxies. Everything seems so much bigger and you feel like a tiny little speck. Well that's the feeling I got when they were travelling through the caves. The Realms aren't just confined to one town or continent. They're all so much bigger than you realise but miniscule at the same time.
David's writing astounded me, it's no surprise that he has so many fans because DUDE! Your talent is blindingly obvious.
I can't wait to start The Star Dwellers and find out what happens next ;)
After reading so many dystopian books, for a few months I thought I'd damaged my love for them. I'd pick up a book and flake out after a few pages. David, you've restored my faith!
The world building was the first thing that really struck me. It's flawless, it's flawed (that makes no sense but it kind of does!) and it's so well done that for a moment, I thought I was running along with Adele and Tristan! In some ways it would remind me of the Chaos Walking trilogy with the dark feel and that hag scared the freaking crap out of me!
There's a section in the scene where the group are travelling through caves and I just have to say this. Do you ever get that feeling when you look up at the stars at night and it kind of hits you that there are so many possibilities and galaxies. Everything seems so much bigger and you feel like a tiny little speck. Well that's the feeling I got when they were travelling through the caves. The Realms aren't just confined to one town or continent. They're all so much bigger than you realise but miniscule at the same time.
David's writing astounded me, it's no surprise that he has so many fans because DUDE! Your talent is blindingly obvious.
I can't wait to start The Star Dwellers and find out what happens next ;)
The first quarter of the book was a little slow, a lot has been explained about the Tri-Realms. Also we learn a little bit about Tristan and Adele background.
After that the real fun started, when Adele and her new friends Tawni and Cole escape from prison. From that part the story takes you across the Moon Realm, lots of actions which was really well described. I really liked the detailed fighting scenes and I loved the way David described the fighting scenes!
So that is why I liked this much better than Matched, especially the wicked ending! Which is probably my favourite part of the book. It is the ending that turned this from a three star read into a 3,5 star read! Splendidly done! *bows to David* So therefore 3,5 stars !!!!!
Full bilingual review can be found here: http://icequeensbookshelf.blogspot.nl/2013/11/review-moon-dwellers-dwellers-1-david.html
After that the real fun started, when Adele and her new friends Tawni and Cole escape from prison. From that part the story takes you across the Moon Realm, lots of actions which was really well described. I really liked the detailed fighting scenes and I loved the way David described the fighting scenes!
So that is why I liked this much better than Matched, especially the wicked ending! Which is probably my favourite part of the book. It is the ending that turned this from a three star read into a 3,5 star read! Splendidly done! *bows to David* So therefore 3,5 stars !!!!!
Full bilingual review can be found here: http://icequeensbookshelf.blogspot.nl/2013/11/review-moon-dwellers-dwellers-1-david.html
Humanity digs into the earth and creates an underground world called the Tri-Realms. Democratic ideals fall astray as a class system is firmly put in place. The Tri-Realms is made up of three levels of caverns and tunnels dug into the ground. The first level is called Sun Realm. The place where the leaders, wealthy and powerful live in sinful luxury. The Moon Realm is the second level and make up most of the middle class work force. The Star Realm dwellers live in the deep, dark caves on the last level and barely survive in the worst conditions in almost complete darkness.
Tristan is the son of the current President and he despises everything that his father holds dear. During a publicity tour of the Moon Realm, pain stabs his brain when he looks into the eyes of a stranger. A girl with dark hair. Later, he finds out that her name is Adele.
She felt it too. An odd frisson of pain and complete awareness of him. The young man that everyone knows because he's the President's son. It doesn't make sense. Why would he hurt her? He doesn't even know her.
I'm a brat. I want to know more about why people ended up becoming ground moles. I want to know more about the class system, living arrangements and what makes things tick. Apparently, living underground has made life expectancy go down by about 20 years. Other than that, the slang is basically the same as 20th century and people don't seem to be different.
I like the clear setup of our dueling heroes: Adele and Tristan. Both of them are human and yet badass. However the situations that they are throwing themselves into willy-nilly and managing to get out of with very little effort is really hard to swallow. It's casually explained with a, "There must be someone helping. Why?" If that's suppose to be a lure to keep going, well dang it, okay.
Perhaps there needs to be more icky moments. It shouldn't be all sunshine and rainbows. It's the wreckage that makes you appreciate the simple things like having water to drink.
I find the narrators to be okay but rather inconsistent in how they portray & accent the different characters. In some ways, this reading would have been better if the two narrators recorded at the same time and had certain characters and narration to read rather than swapping chapters per POV change.
It's an interesting adventure story. A solid YA novel. I'm eager to see how the Mom turns out. Will she be like a hidden Athena/Xena?
Tristan is the son of the current President and he despises everything that his father holds dear. During a publicity tour of the Moon Realm, pain stabs his brain when he looks into the eyes of a stranger. A girl with dark hair. Later, he finds out that her name is Adele.
She felt it too. An odd frisson of pain and complete awareness of him. The young man that everyone knows because he's the President's son. It doesn't make sense. Why would he hurt her? He doesn't even know her.
I'm a brat. I want to know more about why people ended up becoming ground moles. I want to know more about the class system, living arrangements and what makes things tick. Apparently, living underground has made life expectancy go down by about 20 years. Other than that, the slang is basically the same as 20th century and people don't seem to be different.
I like the clear setup of our dueling heroes: Adele and Tristan. Both of them are human and yet badass. However the situations that they are throwing themselves into willy-nilly and managing to get out of with very little effort is really hard to swallow. It's casually explained with a, "There must be someone helping. Why?" If that's suppose to be a lure to keep going, well dang it, okay.
Perhaps there needs to be more icky moments. It shouldn't be all sunshine and rainbows. It's the wreckage that makes you appreciate the simple things like having water to drink.
I find the narrators to be okay but rather inconsistent in how they portray & accent the different characters. In some ways, this reading would have been better if the two narrators recorded at the same time and had certain characters and narration to read rather than swapping chapters per POV change.
It's an interesting adventure story. A solid YA novel. I'm eager to see how the Mom turns out. Will she be like a hidden Athena/Xena?
I don't think you guys will be able to understand how excited I am to review this book. I loved Angel Evolution by David Estes (a different book series by David Estes), but when I picked up The Moon Dwellers by him I thought I was going to strongly dislike it. I don't know why, but lately I have been a terrible judge of books by their cover. I was hooked by the third word! I loved it so much I cannot fully put it in the words and I am afraid that my review is going to be a bunch of gibberish. (I was lucky to receive this book from the author.)
Goodreads Summary:
In a desperate attempt to escape destruction decades earlier, humankind was forced underground, into the depths of the earth, creating a new society called the Tri-Realms.
After her parents and sister are abducted by the Enforcers, seventeen-year-old Adele, a member of the middle-class moon dwellers, is unjustly sentenced to life in prison for her parents' crimes of treason.
Against all odds, Adele must escape from the Pen and find her family, while being hunted by a deranged, killing machine named Rivet, who works for the President. She is helped by two other inmates, Tawni and Cole, each of whom have dark secrets that are better left undiscovered. Other than her friends, the only thing she has going for her is a wicked roundhouse kick and two fists that have been well-trained for combat by her father.
At the other end of the social spectrum is Tristan, the son of the President and a sun dweller. His mother is gone. He hates his father. Backed by only his servant and best friend, Roc, he leaves his lavish lifestyle in the Sun Realm, seeking to make something good out of his troubled life.
When a war breaks out within the Tri-Realms, Tristan is thrust into the middle of a conflict that seems to mysteriously follow Adele as she seeks to find her family and uncover her parents true past.
In their world, someone must die.
I thought this book was going to be another dystopian novel with the same basic idea. I was so incredibly wrong. David Estes has built his own fictional - and believable - world. I feel as if it could exist and that everything that happens in the book could actually happen. The idea is so genius and unique I just want to hug David for writing it!
I loved all the characters - especially Adele and Tristan, the two main characters - except for the bad guys of course. All the characters had their personality flaws, but isn't that what makes a character believable? And they weren't flaws that made me want to smack them across the face, they were flaws that made me love them and want to give them an endless amount of hugs.
The whole time I was like, "FIND HER TRISTAN. FIND HER. RUN FASTER. NO, SHE IS OVER HERE. PLEASE LISTEN TO ME!" I was even gushing to my mom about the book and she just smiled and nodded at her delirious child - even though she had no clue what I was talking about - because of what a wonderful mother she is.
Adele was such a strong female character, and I loved her for it. She had her emotional moments - but who doesn't? She was just so kick-butt and witty and amazing and I adored her. Tristan was amazing and if I didn't love Adele so much I would steal him away and claim that he was my fictional husband. But I won't. Because Adele is awesome and I can't steal her man...
I really liked the supporting characters as well - Roc, Tawni, Cole, etc...
The writing style was flawless, in my opinion. It was diverse in vocabulary, but it was laid back and personalized enough that we really connected with the two main character's. The plot was excellent.
I had no complaints. At all. Zip. Zero. Zilch.
This almost never happens to me because I always have a few things that annoy me in pretty much every book - they aren't necessarily big things, but there is always something. I was so happy when I finished the whole book and I realized that I had no complaints.
The book sent my heart pounding, my blood rushing to my head, my stomach churning, and my palms sweating! I think I had a few heart attacks whilst reading. I still feel dizzy, looking back on certain scenes. I think this is one of my favorite books, listed up there with Harry Potter and Insurgent and Twilight and The Gallagher Girls Series and etc...
I cannot wait to read the next book and I look forward to many more books from David Estes! I don't think that my review does justice to this book.
Goodreads Summary:
In a desperate attempt to escape destruction decades earlier, humankind was forced underground, into the depths of the earth, creating a new society called the Tri-Realms.
After her parents and sister are abducted by the Enforcers, seventeen-year-old Adele, a member of the middle-class moon dwellers, is unjustly sentenced to life in prison for her parents' crimes of treason.
Against all odds, Adele must escape from the Pen and find her family, while being hunted by a deranged, killing machine named Rivet, who works for the President. She is helped by two other inmates, Tawni and Cole, each of whom have dark secrets that are better left undiscovered. Other than her friends, the only thing she has going for her is a wicked roundhouse kick and two fists that have been well-trained for combat by her father.
At the other end of the social spectrum is Tristan, the son of the President and a sun dweller. His mother is gone. He hates his father. Backed by only his servant and best friend, Roc, he leaves his lavish lifestyle in the Sun Realm, seeking to make something good out of his troubled life.
When a war breaks out within the Tri-Realms, Tristan is thrust into the middle of a conflict that seems to mysteriously follow Adele as she seeks to find her family and uncover her parents true past.
In their world, someone must die.
I thought this book was going to be another dystopian novel with the same basic idea. I was so incredibly wrong. David Estes has built his own fictional - and believable - world. I feel as if it could exist and that everything that happens in the book could actually happen. The idea is so genius and unique I just want to hug David for writing it!
I loved all the characters - especially Adele and Tristan, the two main characters - except for the bad guys of course. All the characters had their personality flaws, but isn't that what makes a character believable? And they weren't flaws that made me want to smack them across the face, they were flaws that made me love them and want to give them an endless amount of hugs.
The whole time I was like, "FIND HER TRISTAN. FIND HER. RUN FASTER. NO, SHE IS OVER HERE. PLEASE LISTEN TO ME!" I was even gushing to my mom about the book and she just smiled and nodded at her delirious child - even though she had no clue what I was talking about - because of what a wonderful mother she is.
Adele was such a strong female character, and I loved her for it. She had her emotional moments - but who doesn't? She was just so kick-butt and witty and amazing and I adored her. Tristan was amazing and if I didn't love Adele so much I would steal him away and claim that he was my fictional husband. But I won't. Because Adele is awesome and I can't steal her man...
I really liked the supporting characters as well - Roc, Tawni, Cole, etc...
The writing style was flawless, in my opinion. It was diverse in vocabulary, but it was laid back and personalized enough that we really connected with the two main character's. The plot was excellent.
I had no complaints. At all. Zip. Zero. Zilch.
This almost never happens to me because I always have a few things that annoy me in pretty much every book - they aren't necessarily big things, but there is always something. I was so happy when I finished the whole book and I realized that I had no complaints.
The book sent my heart pounding, my blood rushing to my head, my stomach churning, and my palms sweating! I think I had a few heart attacks whilst reading. I still feel dizzy, looking back on certain scenes. I think this is one of my favorite books, listed up there with Harry Potter and Insurgent and Twilight and The Gallagher Girls Series and etc...
I cannot wait to read the next book and I look forward to many more books from David Estes! I don't think that my review does justice to this book.
I enjoyed this story for young adults and bought the second book in the series before I finished reading this one but I was introduced to Estes through more recent works (Salem's Revenge) before backtracking to this series. While there's not many changes to Estes' writing style, he does grow as a writer between then and now, especially in the way he handles the delivery of details. The beginning of this book was a little difficult because a lot of disorganized details are thrown out all at once, which allowed a couple typos to slip past editors and proof-readers. It was hard to suspend my disbelief until I read past the descriptions of the new world to where the action-driven plot took over. Once I hit the action, I was sucked back into the story (though mentionings of the tunnel-world and its creation/layout continued to pluck at my suspended-disbelief).
I really like the main female character, Adele, and want to see what happens to her.
I really like the main female character, Adele, and want to see what happens to her.
Possibly the worst book I've ever read.
So generic.
The most basic YA story, stratified society that only a special girl and the rich boy she just meet, but has a mysterious connection with.
So generic.
The most basic YA story, stratified society that only a special girl and the rich boy she just meet, but has a mysterious connection with.
Maybe 3.5? It started out well, but quickly went into "awkward moments trying to tie some kind of plot together" mode.
500 years in future, they have technology to bring beaches and all the luxury underground yet they're still having sword fights. Stopped reading after the sword fight scene on the train.