Get your seatbelts ready and pack a diaper for this “rain drop, drop top” review of Joelle Charbonneau’s novel: The Testing. The gumbo pot of every dystopian novel that just happened to hit the bestselling section of Barnes & Noble, and hear you go: this novel. Overall, The Testing is an entertaining series of events unravelled into one story, but when you delve deeper into the background it’s just a cookie cutter YA book. The main purpose of this book is to just set up the next book, and in return the next one will set up the finale of the trilogy like all YA books these days. In fact the final line of the book is after, spoiler, Cia gets accepted to the University she listens to a recording of herself, “I blink as the small room fills with a voice that sounds like my own and listen as the voice speaks words I don’t want to believe” (Charbonneau 325).
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She wouldn’t just stand by after learning these things. Things that involve a seemingly “harmless process” in selecting their country’s future from 18 Colonies (might as well say Districts with the similarities to The Hunger Games), but the only downside to that is that they execute four fifths of the testers without anyone noticing. Cia learns that she has changed from the down to earth girl to someone who had to kill to survive, but it’s her government’s fault for initiating this process and the former would need to
She wouldn’t just stand by after learning these things. Things that involve a seemingly “harmless process” in selecting their country’s future from 18 Colonies (might as well say Districts with the similarities to The Hunger Games), but the only downside to that is that they execute four fifths of the testers without anyone noticing. Cia learns that she has changed from the down to earth girl to someone who had to kill to survive, but it’s her government’s fault for initiating this process and the former would need to