I
have to be honest, at least at this point in the series; this is better than Divergent
and on par to be better than the Hunger Games. I talk about this novel
all the time, I think about the kind of world Cia Vale lives in, and how I
would deal with that sort of life. I love every situation and character plot of
this series, and this sequel didn’t let me down. Independent Study is
one of the greatest post apocalyptic novels I have read in a very long time.
Cia
Vale survived the Testing, passed with flying colours and is now at University in Tosu City. Everything should be great, her
boyfriend loves her, she gets a great internship in government with the
President, a house that thinks she intelligent, everything should be perfect.
But it isn’t. Cia heard the tape of herself after the Testing, she knows what
she did, and what they did to her. The government is the enemy, at least some
of them are. And her boyfriend might be an enemy too. Cia knows what Thomas did
in the games, the lies he told and the lives he took.
Cia wants to bring down the organization that allows for the
testing, but even the people she thinks she can trust she finds she is wrong
about. Hidden letters, secret meetings, and more murders than even the Testing
saw. Cia realizes that she might actually be alone in this, with no allies or
friends who wont give her up for an advancement in University or placement in
the government’s inner circle. Loyalty, friends and even family are all a
changing game as far as Cia can tell, but what she witnesses at the end will
forever change the final installment of this series.
I literally have a countdown on my phone for when the final book
comes out. I gave this series to multiple people for Christmas, and received
text messages from all of them saying they loved it (the girl I babysat as a
child called to tell me she likes it more than Hunger Games). It holds up to the first novel, and exceeds all
expectations.
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