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The Testing

The Testing, Book 1

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The Testing

De: Joelle Charbonneau
Narrado por: Elizabeth Morton
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The story in which a 16-year-old is chosen by her government to undergo The Testing, which decides if she gets to go to The University. The University is for the country’s best and brightest teens and puts the rebuilding and future leadership of the United Commowealth in their hands. During The Testing, extreme psychological and physical trials pit them against one another to determine which teens have what it takes to become a leader.

©2013 Joelle Charbonneau (P)2013 Recorded Books
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Engaging Storyline • Well-developed Characters • Strong Protagonist • Intriguing Dystopian Setting • Unexpected Plot Twists
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Only half-way through listening to this book and I'm not sure I will finish. The narration is awful. The narrator is so slow and deliberate that it sounds like she's at "read to me" day at Kindergarten. Please tell me it gets better.

Narration is ruining this for me

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Would you consider the audio edition of The Testing to be better than the print version?

No

Would you recommend The Testing to your friends? Why or why not?

Yes with reservations. I would recommend they read rather than listen.

What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?

I didn't care for the narrator used for the audiobook. Her male voices were terrible, but the female was not great either. I definitely plan to physically read the future books if the same narrator is used.

Any additional comments?

I liked the concept of this book and did enjoy reading it. However, there were many things that irritated me. I found at times that many things/plot points/decisions seemed too perfectly laid out for the character. For example, it seemed that out of a large group of brilliant people, Cia was the only one capable of making rational decisions. It seemed that she just jumped to the correct conclusion every time and just knew what had to be done.

On the other hand, so many things were just too random. The main character Cia was singled out as special from the very beginning by an official who had never met her. It almost seemed that the author was trying to make a Katniss out of Cia but without having any reasoning. (No televised interviews found in the Hunger Games, or even the entire first Hunger Games which was what made Katniss a symbol of revolution.)

I liked the adventure of the story, and found especially the 4th stage of testing to be very interesting. The reason I rated it as highly as I did was that it maintained my interest. I wasn't overly fond of any of the characters, and thought they were all too inconsistent. One of the only major questions presented goes completely unanswered. (this is why I'll continue reading the series) It does have potential, and I'm hoping things improve in the second book.

Liked the concept, but many things irritated me

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If you liked the trilogies Matched or Divergent, you’ll love this book, the first in another dystopian trilogy.

Great book, an enjoyable listen!

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I first read this series. Later I found the Audible version. I frequently put this book on to hear the story again.

Great Entertainment

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I really enjoyed this book! The story was great and I like that it features a strong and believable female protagonist (that has believable flaws). It puts you in the mind of "The Hunger Games", but it is not a ripoff. The only thing that bothered my was the narration. I couldn't stand the reader's voice. It was too childlike. Listening to the book at x1.25 speed made it tolerable. Unfortunately this same reader performs all three books in this trilogy.

Great story, subpar narration

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The reader of this audiobook makes it unbearable. I couldn't finish this recording, and just had to check it out in print instead. Novel itself is okay, but Elizabeth Morton sounds like she's reading to a kindergarten class. The tone of voice and inflection style she's chosen to perform this book in just doesn't fit the context of the story she's reading at all, or match at all with what the characters are even saying half the time, and it just got to be too distracting and irritating for me to continue. I'd suggest not buying this audiobook unless you're using a free credit, or don't mind a soft, overly chipper voice really going overboard with the "gather 'round, its reading time!" voice for a dark, speculative fiction novel.

Okay book, terrible reader

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I had a hard time with

getting into the story because of the narrator's voice. She can't do male voices very well.

The story itself if good, but a real mix of Divergent and Hunger Games.

Good

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me gusto la historia y como fue relatado y me gustaria que este en español

muy bueno

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Great story like the title says. finished the series in a matter of about a week (mostly listening on my work hours and drive home)

Great story

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What other book might you compare The Testing to and why?

It had moments similar to The Hunger Games and Divergent. Only cause they are put through trials and it's a twisted government.

Any additional comments?

Holy flippin’ crap! This book was downright craziness! I’m having the shakes right now thinking about everything that happened in this book, and I’m having severe separation anxiety because I want Independent Study (book 2) now! If I were put in “The Testing,” I don’t think I could control my temper one bit; I think I’d probably hemorrhage right then and there and start acting like a raving lunatic. In fact, while reading The Testing, in one moment I’d feel like I wanted to jump right through the pages and go on a frenzied rampage, and then in the next moment I’d feel the complete opposite and I wanted to curl up in a ball and have an internal freak out.

In the very beginning of the book I wasn’t fully invested in the story, and it took me a few tries to get drawn into the story, as I’d start and stop reading. Which is really weird because it wasn’t very far into the book before the story takes a turn that really sparked my interest and got my full attention. At that point, there is this one particular thing that happens that actually had me leaping from my seat in shock, and I was stuck.

I can’t really talk too much about the characters in The Testing because I have some really strong feelings about a lot of those characters. This is one of those books that had me changing my original feelings for some of the characters by the stuff that transpires by the end of the story. So, by talking about the characters, I’d be revealing major spoilers, and you know how much I hate to do that! In fact, my feelings for some of the characters were so strong that I’ve gotten into a few heated battles with some blogger friends, particularly Jaime from Two Chicks on Books.

This is a book I would totally recommend! And if you are struggling with the beginning, don’t let that hold you back because the story’s phenomenal!

Purely CRAZINESS!

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