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Title:   Graduation Day: The Testing, Book 3 by Joelle Charbonneau Publisher:  Recorder Books Format: Audio book Length:  9 hours 17 minutes Narrator: Elizabeth Horton Genre: Dystopian YA Synopsis:  She wants to put an end to the Testing. In a scarred and brutal future, The United Commonwealth teeters on the brink of all-out civil war. The rebel resistance plots against a government that rules with cruelty and cunning. Gifted student and Testing survivor Cia Vale vows to fight. But she can't do it alone. This is the chance to lead that Cia has trained for - but who will follow? Plunging through layers of danger and deception, Cia must risk the lives of those she loves - and gamble on the loyalty of her lethal classmates. Who can Cia trust? (53)Review: I actually liked this book the best out of the whole trilogy. While Cia still seems perfect in many ways, this book starts to show her humanity and her flaws and how this whole thing is aff...

Title:   Independent Study by Joelle Charbonneau Publisher: Recorded Books Format: Audio Book Narrator:  Elizabeth Morton Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Pages:  336 pages Genre:  dystopian YA Synopsis:  Seventeen-year-old Cia Vale survived  The Testing , as has Tomas, the boy she loves, and they have both gained admission to the University. She has a promising future as a leader of the United Commonwealth and no memory of her bloody testing experience, thanks to a government-sanctioned memory wipe. Cia should be happy but  is plagued by doubts about the past and future. Determined to find the truth, she embarks on a path of study forbidden by the government delving  into the Commonwealth's darkest secrets. What she finds is the brutal reality lurking behind the friendly faces of her classmates and the unbearable realization that leaders chosen to protect us can be our greatest enemy. (43) Review: I am still struggli...

Title:   The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau Publisher: Recorded Books Format: Audio book Length: 11 hours 12 minutes Narrator: Elizabeth Morton Genre: YA Dystopian Synopsis:  The story in which a 16-year-old is chosen by her government to undergo The Testing, which decides if she gets to go to The University. The University is for the country’s best and brightest teens and puts the rebuilding and future leadership of the United Commonwealth in their hands. During The Testing, extreme psychological and physical trials pit them against one another to determine which teens have what it takes to become a leader.  (36) Review: With similarities to  The Hunger Games  and the  Divergent Series  this seems like the next new dystopian trilogy to watch and read, according to many reviews and websites. I thought the book started a out a little slow but picked up as they start the testing. The testing is filled with sick min...