Graduation Day

The Testing, Book 3

By: Joelle Charbonneau

Narrated by: Elizabeth Morton

Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins

Publisher's summary

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? The stakes are higher than ever - lives of promise cut short or fulfilled; a future ruled by fear or hope - in the electrifying conclusion to Joelle Charbonneau's epic Testing trilogy. Ready or not - it' s Graduation Day. The Final Test is the Deadliest!

©2014 Joelle Charbonneau (P)2014 Recorded Books

good book

some what similar to hunger games, but with enough unique difference to make it original.

Good Read

I enjoyed this book. The author did a good job on the story line. The narrator was very pleasant to listen to.

The story was good

The story was typical of dystopian novels, but well written. Narration was not so great however. The main character starts out at 16, yet the narrator reads as if she's 12. I only continued because my daughter insisted, but overall, not bad for young adult.

5 min in…..

They changed the reader and it is making me soooo crazy! Her voice is not similar to the first two books and she reads choppy and slow! It will be very difficult for me to finish this series!!

Loved all 3

I lived all 3 of these books. it was hard to turn them off to go to sleep. I stayed throughly involved in the storyline and characters.

Play at 1.2x

Great book! Narrator was a little slow in pace. You can correct it some by setting the speed to 1.2x.

Please don’t change narrator during a series

The narrator changed from the first two books. While the characters are young, she voiced them as if they were small children. Her inflections were almost unbearable. The story was “ehh” but I nearly set it aside due to narration. I finished the series but in hindsight would not really recommend; the entire series could have been made into one extended novel.

loved it

loved it. I do wish the ending had a little more or possibly the author left it as such to continue for a 4th installment. :)

It was ok

It was an ok series I listened to all three books which is rare for me to finish a series. It had an interesting story and plot, but felt really similar to a mix of Hunger Games and Divergent which was fine but the thing that really bothered me was Cia had literally zero character development! Any time she came across a problem oh she automatically knew how to solve it because something her brothers or her dad taught her when she was younger so she never had any issues. I really only enjoyed two characters through out the series and that was Enzo and Michel the others were kinda annoying. And by the end I was confused on who actually wanted to end the testing and who was good and who was bad it was just a mess and the author just trying to get more story out without really knowing where it was going.

But there were parts I did like I liked the different stages of testing found that original and fun to listen to, but that’s about it.

Would be cool if a 4th book were made!!!

I enjoyed the entire series. Although I can imagine the multitude of ways that Cia's path could follow, I would love for the author to create a 4th book that shows the aftermath of what transpired here in this book.