The only image I got was that Adele seemed controlled and Tristan was naïve. 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.
I felt like I was reading a diary of the MCs thoughts. The MCs voices came out flat and monotone throughout the book.
However, I’m not sure that first person was the way to go in this book. David did a great job of making it clear whose eyes we were seeing the story through. The story is told in first person through the alternating viewpoints of Adele and Tristan. But a person can create a family where people have more similarities with you and you love them even more than blood relatives. How family can be by birth or blood and a person may not have anything in common with them. Also another theme in this book is about family. 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. 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. What I mean by this is that David arranged each chapter pertaining to Adele and Tristan and had a similar event happen to them. I can say without a doubt that David’s writing has definitely improved. 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.
He plans to release the 7 th and final book, The Earth Dwellers, in the combined series on September 5 th later this year.I was given this book to read through Basically Books ARR group for an honest review, thank you. Since writing The Moon Dwellers, David has gone on to write and publish two sequels, The Star Dwellers and The Sun Dwellers, as well as three books in a sister series, The Country Saga (Fire Country, Ice Country, and Water & Storm Country). As he’s gone from struggling Indie author to fulltime writer, he’s watched in amazement as his Goodreads fan group has swelled from 300 members to over 1,300. The birth of The Moon Dwellers also changed David’s life forever. Since then, The Moon Dwellers has outsold and drawn more hype than any other of his 13 published books, and has risen to the top 10 of many YA dystopian lists on Listopia, finding a place amongst bestselling books such as The Hunger Games, Delirium and Divergent. Today, The Moon Dwellers by David Estes turns 1 year old! It was 1 year ago today (June 30 th ) that David Estes first published the first book in his first ever YA dystopian series, The Dwellers Saga, and changed his life forever.
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