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The Moon Dwellers: The Dwellers Saga (udgave 2012)

af David Estes

Serier: The Dwellers Saga (1)

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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 government. 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.… (mere)
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Titel:The Moon Dwellers: The Dwellers Saga
Forfattere:David Estes
Info:CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (2012), Paperback, 366 pages
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The Moon Dwellers af David Estes

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I was given this book to read through Basically Books ARR group for an honest review, thank you.



I first read David Estes’ book Angel Evolution and had liked it so I wanted to give The Moon Dwellers a try to see if I’d also enjoy it; and also to see how much, if any, David’s writing had improved. I can say without a doubt that David’s writing has definitely improved. The Moon Dwellers is nice and orderly. What I mean by this is that David arranged each chapter pertaining to Adele and Tristan and had a similar event happen to them. It was a sort of synchronicity that would bring the two MCs together and David made sure the chapters showed the readers how the similarities worked into Adele and Tristan’s lives even when they weren’t together. I’m not quite sure where David is going with the topic of “Fate” versus “Making Your Own Destiny” in this book, but it’s brought up quite a few times. Also another theme in this book is about family. How family can be by birth or blood and a person may not have anything in common with them. But a person can create a family where people have more similarities with you and you love them even more than blood relatives.

The story is told in first person through the alternating viewpoints of Adele and Tristan. David did a great job of making it clear whose eyes we were seeing the story through. However, I’m not sure that first person was the way to go in this book. The MCs voices came out flat and monotone throughout the book. I felt like I was reading a diary of the MCs thoughts. I didn’t get a good feeling of the kind of personalities they had unless one MC was talking about the personality of the other MC, but that was only telling me, I never felt it. The only image I got was that Adele seemed controlled and Tristan was naïve. I got very good impressions of the personalities of the secondary characters through the eyes of the MCs. Tawni, Cole, Roc, and even Rivet were vibrant and alive. But Adele and Tristan felt flat. That’s why I think the MCs would have been much better in third person. The only time I wasn’t bothered by the flatness of the MCs was when the action started to pick up with Adele escaping the Pen and Tristan arriving at the Pen.

What I liked about each chapter, was that David would end it on a slight cliffhanger. Just enough of a cliffhanger to make me want to know immediately what was going to happen with the MC we were reading, but not so much that we didn't want to read the other MC's POV that was coming up. It was very clever.

Before I go into the characters I have to say I am so happy that David didn't make this story into 'love at first sight.' I can completely see having 'attraction at first sight,' and that made a great reason for Tristan to hunt for Adele.

I liked Adele in that she was able to stand up for herself, but she still was afraid and she wasn’t always successful in what she set out to do. She was still fallible but was not a whiny teenager about it. Tristan seems like he was a lost soul looking for purpose in a meaningless life and he found it in Adele. I can easily see a teenage boy doing something very impulsive like running away to chase after a girl. Teenagers are known to take ridiculous risks because they don’t really have that fear yet of death or of consequences. So Tristan running away makes sense. I love Roc, he is adorable. Loyal to a fault, tries to do his best, and is funny. I think he’s probably my favorite character in the book. My one question is, David, why oh why, did you have to kill offCole? I am so sad.

The pace of the story was slow until Adele, Tawni and Cole make their escape from the Pen. After that the story was more exciting and I didn’t want to put the book down. The book is also an easy fast read, I think in part due to the way David set up the chapters and viewpoints, it made it easier to keep the MCs separate and what was happening to them.

I read this story on my NOOK and there were some odd formatting issues. Words would get cut off at the end of a sentence mid-word. I’m not talking about a word like “talking,” with the “talk” at the end of the line and “ing” at the beginning of the next line. I mean words like “are” where the “ar” is at the end of a line and the “e” starts the next sentence. This happened quite frequently with many different words and it made reading difficult trying to decipher what word I was looking at. I’d have to go back and piece the letters together and it would take me out of the story.

There were a couple of things in the book that I wondered about and don’t remember it being covered or discussed. I believe the issue of where the water came from was lightly gone over, but I would like to know about where they got the air? I wouldn’t think it was from the surface if the Earth’s surface was destroyed and lots of particulate matter was still floating around or noxious fumes. The other thought I had was how hot was it below ground? I know that limestone caverns can be cool, but what about in mines where it can get pretty hot? How do the Dwellers deal with either the cold or the heat? And does it get colder or hotter as they go to a lower level? I would love to have answers on this since it’s something pretty important that the Dwellers have to deal with and something that could make their lives more or less pleasant and also factor into the uprising.

Last but not least, I want to say that I really like the cover. Very nice with the colors, the art and the fonts chosen.

In the end, I enjoyed this book. Because of the flatness of the MCs personalities, I was going to give the book only three stars, that’s how much the bland voices bothered me. But because the action picked up enough to draw my attention away from the monotone POVs, I give The Moon Dwellers 4 stars


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  Penumbra1 | Oct 11, 2022 |
A fun read! Can't wait for the next books in the series! ( )
  bookdrunkard78 | Jan 6, 2022 |
A good read

I did enjoy this book. The post apocalyptic story line along with living underground was what drew me to the book. There are a few parts that you want to question since they are underground and you wonder "how?" I have a feeling those parts of the book I questioned just might come to light in future books.....I will be reading to find out. ( )
  scttbull | Sep 3, 2021 |
Good book. Solid story! I'm not sure if I will pick up the other 2 in the series quite yet but David Estes is a mighty fine storyteller. ( )
  Stacie-C | May 9, 2021 |
OK, so I started reading this series with Fire Country, Book 1 of the sister saga to this series. What a difference a year makes!

I enjoyed the story mostly. I'm not a romance fan, not that I can't appreciate a good story, but romance tends to get a little old for me. Does she like me, his hand grazed mine and my heart skipped a beat..... Ugh, I get it! This one wasn't too terrible, but it did seem to drag on a little much for me in a few places. The writing was also choppier than Fire Country. I can only assume this is just due to progression and improvement with writing over time. Fire Country was so natural, even more impressive really since it was written in their own "language"; which I absolutely loved! Again, I noticed the difference in fluidity, but it wasn't enough to disrupt the story. AND, neither of those factors were enough to make me stop reading the book.

Here's what I DID like. I liked the mystery and intrigue. What is the deal with the pain thing? I hope we get more into that in later books. What is going on with the rebellion? I really hope we hear more about that! How does this tie in to the other series, I know we'll get to that! I hope to see Tristan confront his dad, I hope to learn more about the history of all the worlds!

My favorite thing though by far continues to be the authors ability to weave the story. He builds plots and suspense masterfully. It reminds me of a symphony, were you begin with the individual sections and then they slowly build and blend and lead you to an incredible musical experience; that is how I would describe these books. I've already started reading the sequel The Star Dwellers so I'll stop before I get them confused. In all, great start to a series I'm already incredibly addicted to. I am already worried about what I'll do when it ends....... ( )
  Jenabrownwrites | Apr 26, 2017 |
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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 government. 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.

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