![]() Joelle Charbonneau writes with guts and nerve but also great compassion and heart. "The Testing is a chilling and devious dystopian thriller that all fans of The Hunger Games will simply devour. ![]() Armed with his dire warnings ("Cia, trust no one"), she bravely heads off to Tosu City, far away from friends and family, perhaps forever. The Testing is a chilling and devious dystopian thriller that all fans of The Hunger Games will simply devour. When Cia is chosen, her father finally tells her about his own nightmarish half-memories of The Testing. All Cia can think about-hope for-is whether she'll be chosen for The Testing, a United Commonwealth program that selects the best and brightest new graduates to become possible leaders of the slowly revitalizing post-war civilization. ![]() ![]() (Says the girl who is done with higher education hopefully forever. It's graduation day for sixteen-year-old Malencia Vale, and the entire Five Lakes Colony (the former Great Lakes) is celebrating. In The Testing, these pressures are taken to a whole new level in Cia’s version of SATs and entrance examinations, failing a test is met with death and I love that hyperbolic premise. ![]() In Cia's dystopian society, it's an honor to be chosen for The Testing. The opening volume in the New York Times bestselling Testing trilogy. ![]()
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