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Okay, so I really, really enjoyed this book. There are so many reasons why that I could go on and on forever but I'll try to keep it to the most important aspects. 1) David James writes a beautiful novel. His language, imagery, and metaphors are absolutely beautiful. I love the YA genre but not many capture this sort of poetic way of writing. I'm fairly sure if this novel went nowhere with the plot line I would just enjoy reading his writing. 2) This book was unique. Granted there were definitely things about it that were normal YA elements but the world he created was just different and I liked it. 3) Calum and Kate. They were raw and honest and yes, sometimes a little moody but I loved them. I could relate to them in the sense that we all have gone through times where we don't feel like we belong. I liked the way they were developed as characters and I liked seeing from both their perspectives (by the way, this is a first person narrative from both Kate and Calum's perspective). 4)The ending left me wanting so much more. I finished it and was like...give me the next one! I like books that make me want to continue reading because there are some unnamed series that just don't. 5)I enjoyed that the plot kept me guessing until about 75%. Many YA novels these days just lay out from the get-go and I enjoyed the feeling I got when I read this book. I just wanted to know but he wasn't giving me anything which drew me in even more. Overall, I'd recommend this book if you like fantasy YA novels. I do, so I really enjoyed it. I think it's a beautifully written novel and David James does something a lot of YA authors these days don't - he takes enough care in his writing to make his actual words art. So enjoy!


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Light of the Moon Legend of the Dreamer Book 1 David James 9781480082564 Books Reviews

Well let me tell you this book is seriously amazing. I got so pumped up with this book and thought I knew exactly what it was going to be about, boy was I wrong, but in a very good way. I'm still not used to reading books by male authors, were love actually has a while to develop; it's not the characters meet and instant love. Lol. This book is seriously deep and you have to pay attention to the details. Once I got started I couldn't stop, I tried so I can go to sleep, yeah well it didn't happen that way at all. I was up till 1am reading to the very end and left wanting more.

So the book is about a boy named Calum, well a boy who thinks he's a boy but is so much more. He's had a rough home life, his dad was horrible, his mom was there but not in the way she should have been. His saving grace was his best friend Tyler. I absolutely love Tyler, he's the perfect friend for Calum, especially now that things are getting interesting. Calum keeps having these nightmares that seem like warnings but he doesn't know for sure exactly. The way the author wrote Calum Is amazing. You can't help but fall in love with him. He's so much more than he realizes and to me that makes him incredibly sexy, he's in constant turmoil with his emotions. One of my favorite passages is this

"I closed my eyes and pressed into the mark.
A wish. Just one.
That's all I needed.
I let go and let my heart race against everything my mind said shouldn't be.
A wish. Love. Just one."

That's about 5% in the book and I knew it right there that no matter what, the author made me fall in love with Calum. Then he went to school and the life he knew was going to be forever changed, that change came in the form of a girl named Kate.

This is when I started getting confused and my preconceived thoughts on how this book was going to go were blown out of the water. Kate. I'm going to be honest, I didn't really like her at first, it took me a little while to understand her and a new thought developed. She was so mean to Calum and so cryptic. I mean really who tells someone they have 3 days? 3 Days of what? Well you're going to have to read to figure that out! As Kate and Calum spend more time together more information is provided and suspicions are confirmed. Kate's life is just as confusing as Calum's, and it takes the two of them together to discover what's real and what's fake.

I was absolutely surprised and loved it, I can't wait for the next one, he left me with a cliffhanger, sigh lol. The author created a magnificent world that is beautifully captivating. So go buy Light of the Moon now and sit down are read it, you just might look at the stars differently.
I met David James on Twitter and #RumIsland was soon born. It was right before the release of Light of the Moon, and even though I knew nothing about David or his book, I was excited for him. After seeing the cover and reading the synopsis, I decided to read his debut. I'm glad that I did because he has a beautiful, lyrical quality to his writing. It is vivid and intoxicating, and I sometimes felt like I was being rocked to sleep by the pretty words.

Here are some examples

"Night demised in ice.
Morning was born in inferno.
Sun beat through my window, waking me in an ocean of warm sweat. At once I smelled hints of burnt air, the fragrance raw, influencing my headache like gasoline on fire."

and

"Tiny flecks of what looked like mirrored snowflakes floated through the air like fragmented thoughts from a thousand angels. Each fleck shone a rainbow of whites, not colors, reflecting everything and nothing at all; it was as if they were made of pure light, white as the center of the sun."

Our introduction to Calum, a troubled teen whose father left and never looked back, is somber and morose. Dad left his mother feeling dead inside, and Calum is pretty much parent-less at this point.

"The day Dad left was the day mom stopped loving me. I remember the door slamming, screams breaking glass. I remember looking out my window to see him driving away. Mom broken and bleeding on the floor, all tears and pain. I remember reaching down to brush glass from her face, and the look in her eyes said that she would never love me, never see me, again."

Calum is pretty much on autopilot, never feeling like hit fits in but trying hard to hold on to some semblance of normalcy. Kate comes into Calum's life like a hurricane threatening serious destruction. Kate is the opposite of Calum, his antithesis. She's brash and rude and pretty much tells Calum his time is limited. Say what? Who you talkin too, Willis? However, Calum is drawn to Kate, like some lush, evil magnetism that he cannot neutralize.

Both characters were so mysterious and hard to connect with up front. It was easy to feel for Calum's personal struggles, but because he was so closed off to life, it was hard to connect with him. Kate was just a tornado in the beginning, and I was left wondering who the hell she thought she was! Halfway through the story, however, we get more insight and I started to feel more of a connection to them as they struggled with difficult choices. It was when we finally see Kate's personal side that I finally calmed and became invested in her character. I also had a hard time believing their love for one another. I think it happened too fast. Not that this isn't typical of teenagers, but I needed more of a foundation. However, by the end of the story, I was definitely rooting for the two of them as a team. Not only does the lore and history make their seemingly superficial connection make sense, I just plain like them together and I want them to succeed in their hellish mission. I love that there a Love Vs. Destiny theme. It's one of my favorite bookish plot lines.

Other memorable characters Tyler, Calum's best friend, was truly a good guy, though some of his behavior didn't always fit the typical popular jock. Also, the author wrote some seriously creeptastic characters! The Bloodletter made my skin crawl and his scenes were super sinister. And this particular scene with a certain witch was so vivid and eerie. Did I mention creepy scenes with creepy characters? Good stuff.

We slowly and painfully learn the lore of the Dreamer and Destroyer.

"You see, child, this is the story of an angel who fell in love with the Devil, and the forbidden love that destroyed them both; their child of shadow and light."

I loved the twists with the lore and found it very creative. We get demons, witches and other equally sinister characters. Plus, lots of astrological references and some key players in the constellations are actually characters. WIN!

There was one scene with "The Doors of Judgement" that totally reminded me of the gate scenes in The Neverending Story! You know that scene, right? The scene where the statues shoot lasers out of their eyes? Making me think of that movie in any way wins big points!

There was a crazy scene near the end that made me type WOAH in my and I still remember how I felt when that piece was revealed. It might not come as a surprise to some, but I loved that it smacked me across the face.
Okay, so I really, really enjoyed this book. There are so many reasons why that I could go on and on forever but I'll try to keep it to the most important aspects. 1) David James writes a beautiful novel. His language, imagery, and metaphors are absolutely beautiful. I love the YA genre but not many capture this sort of poetic way of writing. I'm fairly sure if this novel went nowhere with the plot line I would just enjoy reading his writing. 2) This book was unique. Granted there were definitely things about it that were normal YA elements but the world he created was just different and I liked it. 3) Calum and Kate. They were raw and honest and yes, sometimes a little moody but I loved them. I could relate to them in the sense that we all have gone through times where we don't feel like we belong. I liked the way they were developed as characters and I liked seeing from both their perspectives (by the way, this is a first person narrative from both Kate and Calum's perspective). 4)The ending left me wanting so much more. I finished it and was like...give me the next one! I like books that make me want to continue reading because there are some unnamed series that just don't. 5)I enjoyed that the plot kept me guessing until about 75%. Many YA novels these days just lay out from the get-go and I enjoyed the feeling I got when I read this book. I just wanted to know but he wasn't giving me anything which drew me in even more. Overall, I'd recommend this book if you like fantasy YA novels. I do, so I really enjoyed it. I think it's a beautifully written novel and David James does something a lot of YA authors these days don't - he takes enough care in his writing to make his actual words art. So enjoy!