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wordsofclover's Reviews (2.16k)
Graduation Day is the thir and final instalment of The Testing trilogy. University student Cia now needs to try and end the Testing once and for all, and she may need to overcome some personal feelings to do that. And, with the help of her other genius friends, come up with a master plan
I gave the first two of this trilogy a 4-star rating, so what happened to make me downgrade the final book to a 2/2.5-star. The first wo books really gripped me in to the story, it was fast-paced and there was lots of action. Unfortunately, Graduation Day seems to miss that something special that the other two books had. Despite the actions in the book taken place over a very short period of time, i felt it to be extremely slow and the story just really dragged on. I felt like Cia took too long to really bring her plan together and then when it did, I don't know, it kind of seemed very lacklustre and I was so confused as to who I was suppose to think the enemy was. It's like the author couldn't make up her mind, and kind of made several people half-enemies, if you know what I mean.
Overall, I was just disappointed with this book. It fell really flat for me, I do wonder if my opinion would be a bit different if I hadn't of left it so long between Independent Study and Graduation Day, but I don't really think so. It just definitely didn't have that oof I was looking for.
I gave the first two of this trilogy a 4-star rating, so what happened to make me downgrade the final book to a 2/2.5-star. The first wo books really gripped me in to the story, it was fast-paced and there was lots of action. Unfortunately, Graduation Day seems to miss that something special that the other two books had. Despite the actions in the book taken place over a very short period of time, i felt it to be extremely slow and the story just really dragged on. I felt like Cia took too long to really bring her plan together and then when it did, I don't know, it kind of seemed very lacklustre and I was so confused as to who I was suppose to think the enemy was. It's like the author couldn't make up her mind, and kind of made several people half-enemies, if you know what I mean.
Overall, I was just disappointed with this book. It fell really flat for me, I do wonder if my opinion would be a bit different if I hadn't of left it so long between Independent Study and Graduation Day, but I don't really think so. It just definitely didn't have that oof I was looking for.
Wow, this is great...the best way to sum this book up is to say it's a bizarre mix of Oliver Twist and Robin Hood with a dash of murder mystery which swiftly turns into a no-holding back adventure, swashbuckling tale.
This book does not disappoint, I found myself gripping the pages of the book with anxiety with every new twist in the plot, wondering how on earth Locke would get out of this one. I developed a severe attachment to all of The Gentleman Bastards and loved their antics, the false facing, the pretence at priesthood. There was such attention to detail in every bit of this book, and so much work has been put into it, to create this amazing world of Dukes, nobles, and the underworld of thieves and smugglers. Amazing!
This book does not disappoint, I found myself gripping the pages of the book with anxiety with every new twist in the plot, wondering how on earth Locke would get out of this one. I developed a severe attachment to all of The Gentleman Bastards and loved their antics, the false facing, the pretence at priesthood. There was such attention to detail in every bit of this book, and so much work has been put into it, to create this amazing world of Dukes, nobles, and the underworld of thieves and smugglers. Amazing!
