
Although Independent Study received decent reviews from critics, Kirkus Reviews points out that it "feels at times a bit too much like an extended setup for the final installment." However, in describing her writing process in an interview with Hypable, Charbonneau said that "’d love to say knew where the story was going, but mostly knew what the final scene would be. The The Testing trilogy was completed in 2015 with its third installment, Graduation Day. As for her mechanical skills-well, let’s just say she has me totally beat in that area." However, I would like to think that I am loyal to my friends and want to believe the best in people. So I probably had more in common with her back in my high school days.

However, out of the protagonists in Charbonneau's various novels, Charbonneau seems to relate to Cia the least: she writes that "Cia is about to turn 17. According to her website, the trilogy was inspired by " work with voice students": "For years, worked closely with private voice students as they navigate the testing, application and audition process required to be accepted into college" and, over time, she has noticed the process becoming more brutal and its effects more keenly felt by her students. In addition to being a YA author, Charbonneau works as a voice coach. It resumes the story of the protagonist, Cia, where the first novel left off: at the start of Independent Study, "Cia is a freshman at the University in Tosu City with her hometown sweetheart, Tomas-and though the government has tried to erase her memory of the brutal horrors of the Testing, Cia remembers." Independent Study (2014) is the second novel in Joelle Charbonneau's The Testing trilogy.


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