Book: Graduation Day
Published: June 17, 2014
Publisher: Clarion Books
Genre: YA Dystopian
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About Graduation Day
Graduation Day is the third installment of The Testing series. This story follows the death of Cia’s friend and how she plans to avenge him. Now everything is on the verge of a civil war.
Cia is determined to fight back, but that’s going to take trust and figuring out who is on her side. This is going to take going through layers of danger and risking her life along with others.
What I thought
So, I really liked The Testing and Independent Study. There was a lot of action in those, which made the story pretty fast-paced. Now, Graduation Day is a lot slower paced, which to me is not great, with this being the last book.
On top of it being slow, I found it weird that Cia trusted the president. She hasn’t trusted any authority since she joined The Testing. So why exactly is she so trusting of the president of all people who could have just been getting her to do her dirty deeds? Also, it’s so weird that the president would trust Cia with this big of a task? Why did she have so much faith that a “child” could accomplish all of this? She could have paid someone else to do it or blackmail them.
Also, yet again, it just seems like Cia is just super lucky. She literally has nothing at stake, even though the story says she does. Everything always seems to be at her fingertips. She doesn’t quite seem to have to work for anything. It just falls in her lap like it was there the entire time.
It’s just sad to me that this is the last and final book, and it turns out to be such a dud. It was boring and really could have been cut in half, and it wasn’t that long of a book to begin with. I was just hoping for something so much better. I’m just really glad that I got the book from the library rather than outright buying it.