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The Testing
The Testing | Joelle Charbonneau
74 posts | 145 read | 65 to read
Its graduation day for sixteen-year-old Malencia Vale, and the entire Five Lakes Colony (the former Great Lakes) is celebrating. All Cia can think abouthope foris whether shell be chosen for The Testing, a United Commonwealth program that selects the best and brightest new graduates to become possible leaders of the slowly revitalizing post-war civilization. When Cia is chosen, her father finally tells her about his own nightmarish half-memories of The Testing. Armed with his dire warnings (Cia, trust no one), she bravely heads off to Tosu City, far away from friends and family, perhaps forever. Danger, romanceand sheer terrorawait.
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RavenclawPrincess913
The Testing | Joelle Charbonneau

Butttt the book is good atleast so far made it 120 pages in just hada take a break cause the deaths got to much

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RavenclawPrincess913
The Testing | Joelle Charbonneau

Finally found a book that grabbed my attention!

TheBookgeekFrau Yayyyyy ☺️ 2y
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radesilets
The Testing | Joelle Charbonneau
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Mehso-so

This book has a weird relationship with food. Yes, a part of the book is a survival story, where access to food and water takes center stage. But the parts that aren‘t, the MC says on three different occasions: “I‘m sure tasted good, but I ” continued in comments #bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks

radesilets I get it as a method to convey emotions, but I think the narrator on the audiobook also drew more attention to these sections. 3y
radesilets Don‘t recommend the audiobook for this one. I‘m not sure I‘ll finish the series… I am so-so interested in the sequels, but I am on an audiobook binge right now and I‘ve listened to other books by this narrator. She has a great children‘s lit voice, but sounds too MG for YA I think? Not sure that makes sense, but there you have it. 3y
radesilets Actual plot of the book is decent. Some twists and turns. I kind of like the lack of anxiety with this MC. Sure, there‘s a lot to worry about and she does worry, but there are times where she goes with the flow and whatever happens, happens. Since I write characters with a lot of internal worries, that was a nice change of pace for me. 3y
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 3y
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KimberlyJuracich
The Testing | Joelle Charbonneau
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Honestly this book surprised me. Better than I thought it would be. I am scared to say anything more because I don‘t want to accidentally give anything away.

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Shay1097
The Testing | Joelle Charbonneau

Things dont always work out the way we hope You just have to pick yourself up and find a new direction to go in

Maybe that‘s the mark of a real leader Admitting a mistake has been made and finding a way to stop it at all costs

The earth is resilient but it‘s hard to imagine a time when this place will be anything but a terrible reminder of what we as a people can do

Forgetting that it happened doesn't change anything Nothing can change the past

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Shay1097
The Testing | Joelle Charbonneau
Pickpick

This was really good, honestly maybe better than I remember it being!! I think this is a perfect beginner YA novel to get into dystopian reading. It is a little reminiscent of the Hunger Games especially at the end of this novel. This had great pacing and character development I thought! Overall this was a really quick fun read!!

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Books4Ever
The Testing | Joelle Charbonneau
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Taking a break from Geralt and friends to reread an old favourite 😊

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MicrobeMom
Testing | Joelle Charbonneau
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Test day for the students and me. This was a tough one. #collegeprof

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Carylleee
The Testing | Joelle Charbonneau

Genre: Speculative Fiction
Date Started: 10/2/19
Date Completed: 10/7/19
How did you choose this book: The title and the cover of this book caught my attention. I also read the back and It seems interesting.

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Bshively
The Testing | Joelle Charbonneau
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I‘m really liking this one. I‘m glad I finally decided to check it out! Can‘t wait to see what happens next.

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bookseller_cate
Testing | Joelle Charbonneau

Litsy won‘t let me post. This is a test

Issue seems to have been fixed. Thank you @Litsy staff! ❤️❤️❤️

bookseller_cate Okay, so why won‘t my other posts go though. Hang on... 6y
bookseller_cate Argh. The main post I want to do still won‘t post. 😞 I‘ve rebooted my phone and everything. 6y
Shley9225 Omg that sucks! Have you tried logging out and then logging back in to your Litsy account? 6y
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bookseller_cate @Shley9225 I haven‘t tried that. Will do. Thanks for the suggestion. 6y
BarbaraJean Mine will only let me post without a picture. When I try to post a picture, it gives me an error. 6y
bookseller_cate @BarbaraJean That‘s the same issue I‘m having. Glad to know it‘s not me. I‘ll report the issue to Litsy‘s Helpdesk. Thanks!! 6y
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TimSpalding
Testing | Joelle Charbonneau

App test

tournevis I see you 6y
Crazeedi When are there going to be updates for android???? Like stickers and other things iOS has 6y
IamIamIam 1-2-3... 6y
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TimSpalding @Crazeedi @conceptdawg is working on it. It's a struggle—we've never managed to push an update out for Android—but we'll get it out eventually. (edited) 6y
Crazeedi @TimSpalding I really wish that would be a focus for a change instead of always iOS just sayin 6y
Crazeedi @TimSpalding and thank you for your work on litsy, it's really my main app now, I love it here 6y
Birdsong28 @Crazeedi We do get stickers on Android it's the 4th option along on the picture option 😀📚📖 6y
Crazeedi @Birdsong28 thank you! I didnt notice that for some stupid reason! I apologize! 6y
Birdsong28 @Crazeedi No need to apologize, I'm just as bad I didn't notice we had the share button until a few weeks ago!! 😂📚📖 6y
Crazeedi @Birdsong28 🙄😁 6y
Crazeedi @Birdsong28 the share button???not sure I know about it?!🙄 6y
Crazeedi @Birdsong28 oh never mind I know what it is, I dont really use it, maybe I should! 6y
TimSpalding @Crazeedi We do need to get the Android version updated. There are a few differences we're like ironed out. For example, we can easily add stickers to iOS, but the Android doesn't allow it. But, as I said, we've never successfully built the Android app, so we're at a bit of a disadvantage... 6y
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TimSpalding
Testing | Joelle Charbonneau
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Testing

TimSpalding Test 6y
tournevis That Bear! 6y
LT_Kirsten Testing comment count with blocked user 6y
kgriffith Testing blocked user view of comments 6y
TimSpalding Just in case anyone is wondering, this is a sculpture of a polar bear eating a sealu2014or, as my son likes to imagine, giving the seal mouth-to-mouth. We believe it is from Alaska. It is one of the weird pieces my parents had which I never gave a second thought to until they died and we had to divide up the stuff. I'm taking it. 6y
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conceptDawg
Testing | Joelle Charbonneau
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Testing a post with a blocked user tagged in the post.

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TimSpalding
Testing | Joelle Charbonneau

This mentions @Foxnorth and @conceptDawg .

TimSpalding And now I am tagging @Soubhiville. Hello @Soubhiville 6y
TimSpalding @Soubhiville Hello, again. 6y
TimSpalding @Soubhiville This is getting repetitive. 6y
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TimSpalding @Soubhiville Hello? Hello? Echo! 6y
TimSpalding @Soubhiville Four score and twenty years ago… 6y
TimSpalding @Soubhiville Tiger Tiger burning bright in the forest of the night 6y
TimSpalding @Soubhiville What immortal hand or eye, framed thy fearful symmetry? 6y
TimSpalding @Soubhiville Twas brillig in the slithy toaves 6y
TimSpalding @Soubhiville Did gyre and gimble in the wabe. 6y
TimSpalding @Soubhiville All mimsy were the borogroves. 6y
TimSpalding @Soubhiville And the mome raths ougrabe! 6y
TimSpalding @Soubhiville Bedeep bedeep bedeep… that's all folks! 6y
Soubhiville Hey @TimSpalding ! You fixed it 😊. Thank you sir! 6y
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TimSpalding
Testing | Joelle Charbonneau

This is a test post with tagged people.

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LibK8ie
The Testing | Joelle Charbonneau

"What other girl would have been willing to fix my ass after I got myself blown up?"-Tomas

Crying ????

Ben2484 I love this series, i wish more people know about it 6y
LibK8ie Yes!! I'm on the second one now, it's wild because they seem so tame/boring in the beginning THEN EVERYTHING STARTS HAPPENING!! 6y
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TimSpalding
Testing | Joelle Charbonneau

Testing #pigletdogs

BethM You want this one flagged too? 6y
Soubhiville I tagged both... hope it‘s working for you. 6y
TimSpalding Ha. No. Testing tags :) 6y
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Callemarie
The Testing | Joelle Charbonneau
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I finally started buying the little twinkling lights so I can try to start taking fun photos like everyone else does on Instagram. Here is my first attempt. Guys I need a room dedicated to just my books. My obsession may be getting a little out of hand. I need to know how other people make their photos look so flawless. Oh well I'll keep practicing

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TimSpalding
Testing | Joelle Charbonneau
Bailedbailed

Teatif

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TimSpalding
Testing | Joelle Charbonneau
Mehso-so

Like me!

Chrissyreadit What are you testing? 6y
LibrarianRyan Ohhhhhhhhh. Something new and fun on the horizon? 6y
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MicrobeMom
Testing | Joelle Charbonneau
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Grading exams is not my favorite kind of reading but a cup of tea and the promise of a book tonight will get me through!

GingerAntics You got this. 6y
MicrobeMom @GingerAntics thanks! Finished about an hour ago! And they did well. 6y
GingerAntics Oh good!!! Love when that happens. What class is this? I commend your bravery for letting them write by hand. I can never read my students‘ handwriting to save my life. 6y
MicrobeMom This is my Principles is Ecology lecture. I tell when it comes to hand writing “If I can‘t read it, I can‘t grade it.” 😂🤣😂🤣 6y
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Jessmac102
The Testing | Joelle Charbonneau
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Anyone ever read this? I‘m only like 10% in, but it‘s kind of feeling very much like Divergent...I‘m gonna keep going with it but doesn‘t feel super original at this point.

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TimSpalding
Testing | Joelle Charbonneau
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Test

kgriffith Testing comment speed 6y
Avanders 👋🏽 6y
Pamwurtzler 👋 6y
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TimSpalding
Testing | Joelle Charbonneau
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Pickpick

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TimSpalding
Testing | Joelle Charbonneau
Pickpick

Testing

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Bookgoil
Testing | Joelle Charbonneau
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Started The Testing this morning while my furbabies were sleeping and am almost 100 pages in now. Enjoying it so far and wondering what these tests involve - after some cleaning and cooking and taking care of the doggies I‘m back to reading. What are you reading today? #dogsoflitsy

Zelma I really liked this book, but then never read the rest of the trilogy. I need to reared the first one again if I decide to, as I forgot almost everything. 6y
Bookgoil @Zelma I have a bad feeling I‘ll do the same... 6y
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TimSpalding
The Testing | Joelle Charbonneau

#testing hashtag

kgriffith Testing commenting 6y
kgriffith Took about twenty seconds to show up 6y
kgriffith That one was instant. 20s one my speed was 82mbps 6y
TimSpalding Teat 6y
TimSpalding Are you testing how long comments take to show up? 6y
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TimSpalding
Testing | Joelle Charbonneau
Sace 1...2...3 6y
TimSpalding Http://athena.librarything.com/trashme.php 6y
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Dianeham
Testing | Joelle Charbonneau
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Just testing to see if I can post. This is my husband early yesterday morning.

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TheRomantiCate
Testing | Joelle Charbonneau
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Test post

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heikemarie
Testing | Joelle Charbonneau
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This is what the belt looks like at the grocery store when you have state testing all week with kids who get extended time. #forme #forthem #forus I‘m not allowed to read during the test 😩 but I‘m hopeful I‘ll still be able to squeeze in some of a new book today!!

dgingo Good luck to all of you! (And where did you find those Godiva masterpieces?!) 7y
heikemarie @dgingo I got them at BJs but I‘ve seen them at Target! (That was a #forme purchase 😂) And thank you!! 7y
dgingo @heikemarie Good to know! (Or not 😳🌰🍫💕) And I hope the chocolate helps! 7y
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Traci1 See this is what it would look like if I sent my husband to buy the week's groceries on any regular day. He always shops like he's throwing a frat party. 7y
heikemarie @Traci1 😂 my body can‘t take that kind of strain anymore! 7y
Foragingfantasy Stupid testing. My 4th grader had STAAR yesterday and today. Your snacks look good! 7y
heikemarie @Foragingfantasy Hope he got lots of rest and didn‘t stress too much! They were! We used them for ELA, Math, and still have some left over for science in two weeks! 7y
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EliNeedsMoreShelves
The Testing | Joelle Charbonneau
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Pickpick

Making an effort to actually finish some of the MANY series' I have started and then abandoned...did a quick re-read of this one before diving into books 2 and 3. Fun, Hunger Games-esque vibe.

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llwheeler
Testing | Joelle Charbonneau
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Minor craftsplosion this afternoon testing pens and markers 😀 #bookmarkswap ideas are forming...
@DebbieGrillo and @shanaqui I sent emails to you but haven't heard back yet (I checked my junk mail just in case), let me know if I need to resend!
@Lacythebookworm I got your first email and replied, hope you got it, let me know if not.

DebbieGrillo I thought I replied to everyone. Let me check. 7y
DebbieGrillo Unless you go by a different name than what is on litsy, I didn't get your email. Try sending again. It's debbieboycegrillo@gmail.com 7y
llwheeler @DebbieGrillo Sorry about that! Darn email, I wasn't ignoring you! I've resent 7y
Lacythebookworm Lovely! Email sent! 😊 7y
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MegD511
The Testing | Joelle Charbonneau
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Panpan

Honestly, I was really disappointed with the book. The story started out fine, but soon it became more of a romance book. She and Thomas find each other and depend on each other through a death defying competition!? Your already competing in a test for your life and your thinking about a guy? That was just to much to fast for me. And the ending was also a big failure in my opinion.

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JacintaMCarter
The Testing | Joelle Charbonneau
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Okay y'all, I'm starting my part-time summer job today. I shouldn't be nervous, but of course I am, because that's just how I roll. I'll be a testing administrator for Pearson, which means I'll basically be watching people take certification tests to make sure they don't cheat. The worst part about this? I can't read while they're testing! So I guess I'm asking for everyone to send me caffeinated good vibes so I don't fall asleep at my desk.

scripturient You'll be great! And here's the coffee: ☕️☕️☕️ :) 8y
Mariposa_Bookworm 👍🏾 Exactly! You'll be great! Caffeine Ju-ju sent your way! 8y
Michelle_mck Can you audiobook?? Good luck 😍 8y
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Pelican71 You've got this! ☕️☕️ 8y
josie281 Woohoo for summer job! 8y
JacintaMCarter @Michelle_mck I don't know about audiobooks. I'll have to ask. 8y
Dragon Good luck with your new job! Good coffee vibes heading your way ! ☕️ 8y
CrowCAH Good luck! 🍀 8y
Hollie Good luck! 8y
DGRachel Good luck! 🍀 8y
maich Good luck💪 8y
minkyb Best of luck! 8y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks You will do great!!! 8y
JessClark78 Good luck! 8y
RaimeyGallant You've got this! 8y
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MSzyd
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Day 156: "The Testing isn't always fair, and it isn't always right." #shoes by #enzoangiolini

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Books4Ever
The Testing | Joelle Charbonneau
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I left my current read at work and I can't get it until Tuesday 🙁...so I'm diving in to another re-read that I adore 😊

bookhoarder513 Hate when that happens! 😯 8y
Books4Ever Yeah :( it really sucks @bookhoarder513 8y
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mom2bugnbee
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When I'm not wife-ing, mothering, or reading, I'm a college biology professor. I gave an open-answer lecture exam to 115 students on Friday, this week I'm giving open-answer lab exams to 85 students, & I have to write an exam for the local high school Science Olympiad by Saturday. I'm afraid that this picture will constitute the great majority of my reading for the next several days. ☺ See you on the other side, Littens! #professorlife

BooksForEmpathy Good luck!!! 8y
Kris10 Good luck! Today I was planning on getting caught up grading paperwork and my 3yo woke up with the stomach bug. #maybetomorrow 8y
mom2bugnbee Thank you, both! @Kris10: Hope the little one feels better soon! 😘 8y
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courtneybee
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went to a YA trivia event with my gal pals, won second place, and got this ARC as a prize! a pretty solid night 💫

#YApassport #ARC

Susi-bee I'm curious to know what you think of this - let me know when you post a review 8y
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BookFreakOut
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Was born and went to college here! I was so excited to see specific references in the story to the aircraft industry part of town and the nationally recognized zoo, specifically the jungle building pictured here. If you ever make one of those "books from every state" lists, put this in instead of Wizard of Oz and all of Kansas will thank you.
#setinyourcity #readjanuary

Hollie I'm from KS, too! I have not yet read this book, though! 8y
BookFreakOut @Hollie Kansas pals! 🙌 They're pretty good, not my super faves but I wouldn't dissuade anyone from reading them. 8y
[DELETED] 4184155464 I'm the sole person in/from Kansas who would encourage the person to read "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." Because I am THAT fan girl. ? But I understand the sentiment most Kansans feel. 8y
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BoldCityBooks
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I've never read it but apparently The Testing won a book bracket at my local library.

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itsmemady
The Testing | Joelle Charbonneau
Pickpick

I loved this book. I really like the plot and the "every character isn't safe" tone throughout the book.

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MagicalCaitie9531
The Testing | Joelle Charbonneau
Pickpick

If you're into dystopian society books, this trilogy is the one for you. It centers around a young girl by the name of Cia. She gets chosen for the Testing. At first she's excited about it, until it takes a deadly turn. must read in my opinion.

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Nitpickyabouttrains
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Mehso-so

Another ya dystopian future. This one could have used some more world building. But still a fun and quick read.