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Graduation Day: The Testing, Book 3

By Michael Berry, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 12+

Final book in talky trilogy picks up pace toward the climax.

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age 12+

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age 12+
I thought this was an amazing book As a 14 year old I thought this would be suitable for 12+. Mainly for violence as this does have some of that. Overall though if you can handle that then you will be ok. Overall a great message. This is a great book I read it in 3 days.

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After what felt like an unneeded middle volume, Graduation Day regains some of the momentum the series had lost. Cia still doesn't know whom to trust, and her endless ruminations about the loyalties of her fellow candidates grow wearisome, but the pace picks up as the narrative approaches its climax.

Author Joelle Charbonneau choreographs some effective action scenes, and there are a couple of neat reversals before the central conflict is resolved. This series doesn't reach the heights achieved by some other dystopian science-fiction adventures, but it has its moments.

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