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A review by alexandriatp
The Moon Dwellers by David Estes
5.0
Great book! I read the beta version and I'm excited to read the final version. I'll review after I read the final version.
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This book is so much better the second time I read it. Even though I've read a lot of books after The Moon Dwellers, I have to say this one always stuck with me. The story is so original. A new world with unusual circumstances keeps me interested the whole time. I mean, these characters live under ground! Just picturing everything they are seeing, or living in, sparks so much imagination. It's like a new toy.
Most of the characters are very strong, physically as well as mentally, which makes sense. They are living in the slums, underground, so they have to be. Each characters is also very much their own person and I love them all. It's hard not to.
This book will make you laugh, cringe, feel all warm and fuzzy, and maybe even cry. I loved all the action. The characters weren't sitting around doing nothing - they were always planning or on the move, even when they didn't know why they were going somewhere exactly. Their situations are unique and the world even more so.
I have to say my favorite part of the book is simply the world it's in. It's a story set in an imaginative world - one that feels magical but isn't. I want to read on because I like the characters and care about what happens to them, but also because I want to see what else this world has to offer.
The only thing that bothered me about the book was there were some overlaps that I thought could have been avoided between the twp characters different POVs. But we did get to see what they were both thinking about the same thing so it was kind of nice too.
The roughness and survival of this book, along with the attitudes of the characters, make me want to put it in the same category as the [b:The Hunger Games|2767052|The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)|Suzanne Collins|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1337857402s/2767052.jpg|2792775]. This story isn't like the Hunger Games at all, but the brutality of the world, along with it being a dystopian, helps me make the connection.
If you're looking for a different kind of YA story, unlike the other dystopians out there, but still just as good, I would definitely tell you to pick this one up!
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This book is so much better the second time I read it. Even though I've read a lot of books after The Moon Dwellers, I have to say this one always stuck with me. The story is so original. A new world with unusual circumstances keeps me interested the whole time. I mean, these characters live under ground! Just picturing everything they are seeing, or living in, sparks so much imagination. It's like a new toy.
Most of the characters are very strong, physically as well as mentally, which makes sense. They are living in the slums, underground, so they have to be. Each characters is also very much their own person and I love them all. It's hard not to.
This book will make you laugh, cringe, feel all warm and fuzzy, and maybe even cry. I loved all the action. The characters weren't sitting around doing nothing - they were always planning or on the move, even when they didn't know why they were going somewhere exactly. Their situations are unique and the world even more so.
I have to say my favorite part of the book is simply the world it's in. It's a story set in an imaginative world - one that feels magical but isn't. I want to read on because I like the characters and care about what happens to them, but also because I want to see what else this world has to offer.
The only thing that bothered me about the book was there were some overlaps that I thought could have been avoided between the twp characters different POVs. But we did get to see what they were both thinking about the same thing so it was kind of nice too.
The roughness and survival of this book, along with the attitudes of the characters, make me want to put it in the same category as the [b:The Hunger Games|2767052|The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)|Suzanne Collins|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1337857402s/2767052.jpg|2792775]. This story isn't like the Hunger Games at all, but the brutality of the world, along with it being a dystopian, helps me make the connection.
If you're looking for a different kind of YA story, unlike the other dystopians out there, but still just as good, I would definitely tell you to pick this one up!