I am at a loss as to how to rate this book. An absolute loss. 
 1) It's pacey and definitely readable. (It's the sort of book I enjoy listening to in the car.) 
 2) It's epically derivative of The Hunger Games. At a level that bothered me, to be honest. (Seriously, it's so derivative.) 
 3) It's all plot. (If you like Divergent, you'll probably like this book.) 
 4) There are some inexplicable moments (ie, Cia freaking out about bandaging a guy's butt when he's been seriously wounded--because it's a dude's butt) that bothered me. 
 5) I really liked the action elements--they're well-done and genuinely exciting. 
 6) The love interest did not do it for me at all. I would love it if there was someone else in the next books in the series. 
 7) The early tests (the classroom ones) were genuinely scary and ominous, which was pretty awesome. 
 I don't know, y'all, I just don't know. Because I enjoyed listening to The Testing and kind of want to listen to the next one. But, I had issues... Which were not small issues...