author: Joelle Charbonneau
name: Wayne
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2013
rating: 3
read at: 2013/05/17
date added: 2013/05/17
shelves: young-adult
review:
A young girl in a dystopian future America must pass life or death tests to prove herself worthy of attending University in this new young adult novel. There are obvious comparisons to other works out there in this large and ever-growing subcategory of YA fiction, but this one is still a page-turner with compelling characters.
Cia Vale is about to graduate high school and wonders if she'll be chosen for the Testing, where a group of bright students are given the opportunity to attend University and given jobs restoring the broken remains of the United States. There are 18 colonies left and no one from Cia's colony has been chosen for quite a while, but her father attended years ago and has vague, uneasy memories of what he went through.
The Testing is a series of tests determined to find out who is the best in variety of subjects such as math, science and survival. One test has subjects determining which plants are poisonous and which are safe, then having the students eat the ones they deem safe. The final test is a grueling trip through a war-scarred land where resources are scarce, water is potentially deadly, and fellow test subjects who may be out to eliminate the competition.
Filled with tension, a definite feeling of paranoia, and a likeable heroine in Cia. I've read a lot of dystopian YA fiction, and while this brings nothing new to the genre, I think it will be the breakout hit in YA fiction this Summer.
via Wayne's bookshelf: read http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/584856963?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss
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