A review by jl27
The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau

3.0

This was a book selected for our high school’s schoolwide read. I’d grown quite tired of the dystopian genre, and reluctantly picked up this one along with my students. I found it to be more of a middle school level read, but with a lot of really dark stuff happening throughout. The story was good overall, and the read was easy, but much too parallel to the Katniss Everdeen plight. And we all know THG series already did its thing quite well, long before this book was published. I don’t think I’d read the other books in this series; but if you’re into the dystopian genre, then give it a read once you’ve checked out the better-written, more popular series pieces out there.