In the series debut The Testing, sixteen-year-old Cia Vale was chosen by the United Commonwealth government as one of the best and brightest graduates of all the colonies . . . a promising leader in the effort to revitalize postwar civilization. In Independent Study, Cia is a freshman at the Univers...
Independent Study by Joelle Charbonneau is the second in The Testing trilogy. There are going to major spoilers in this review for The Testing because that’s how edge of your seat trilogies go ;-). I was one of the people who loved The Testing, unfortunately I wasn’t quite as in love with Independen...
This review and others are posted at Inspiring Insomnia.I wouldn’t normally read the sequel to a book I disliked, as was the case with The Testing. But I was excited to read that book, and some weird fluke made both The Testing and Independent Study available at BEA last May, so I eagerly snapped u...
*I received this book from the publisher via Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review. Thanks!*Sequels are hard. Not only as a writer, but as a reader too. Especially when the first book was really good. Your expectations for the second book will be really high. That's not always a good thing. As ...
Charbonneau accomplished a rare feat: she was able to start a sequel without a giant (and often mind numbing) overview of what happened in the first book. There were several months and about a dozen books read between The Testing and Independent Study and it took no time to go back into Cia's world....
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