New Year, New Books Day 22 (Part 1): Stephanie Diaz + Extraction

Welcome to Day 22 of New Year, New Books! Today I'm featuring...

1) Stephanie Diaz

-author of Extraction (July 22nd, 2014)

Rachel Berry is just perfect for a happy gif. She's so cheery and all.

So Stephanie is on my blog today to share a super cool book playlist with you! Her upcoming release sounds super mega awesome, so lookie below:

Title: Extraction
Author: Stephanie Diaz
Shelves: Young Adult, Science Fiction, Fantasy
Publication Date: July 22nd, 2014
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

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Summary from Goodreads: "Welcome to Extraction testing."

Clementine has spent her whole life preparing for her sixteenth birthday, when she’ll be tested for Extraction in the hopes of being sent from the planet Kiel’s toxic Surface to the much safer Core, where people live without fear or starvation. When she proves Promising enough to be “Extracted,” she must leave without Logan, the boy she loves. Torn apart from her only sense of family, Clem promises to come back and save him from brutal Surface life.

What she finds initially in the Core is a utopia compared to the Surface—it’s free of hard labor, gun-wielding officials, and the moon's lethal acid. But life is anything but safe, and Clementine learns that the planet's leaders are planning to exterminate Surface dwellers—and that means Logan, too. 

Trapped by the steel walls of the underground and the lies that keep her safe, Clementine must find a way to escape and rescue Logan and the rest of the planet. But the planet leaders don't want her running—they want her subdued.

With urgent writing, fluid dialogue, and a cast of unforgettable characters,Extraction is a page-turning, gripping read, sure to entertain lovers of Hunger Games and Ender's Game and leave them breathless for more.

Stephanie Diaz's Playlist

Stephanie's website|Goodreads author page

Hey everyone! I'm so excited to share the playlist for my debut novel, EXTRACTION, today.

EXTRACTION is the first book in a YA sci-fi trilogy, releasing on July 22, 2014 from St. Martin's Griffin. It's about a fearless girl who wins escape from a brutal life on her planet's surface, where a poisonous moon looms in the sky, only to find herself battling to save the entire planet from destruction.

Here's the more official blurb:

“Welcome to Extraction testing.”

Clementine has spent her whole life preparing for her sixteenth birthday, when she'll be tested for Extraction in the hopes of being sent from the planet Kiel's toxic Surface to the much safer Core, where people live without fear or starvation. When she proves Promising enough to be “Extracted,” she must leave without Logan, the boy she loves. Torn apart from her only sense of family, Clem promises to come back and save him from brutal Surface life.

What she finds initially in the Core is a utopia compared to the Surface—it's free of hard labor, gun-wielding officials, and the moon's lethal acid. But life is anything but safe, and Clementine learns that the planet's leaders are planning to exterminate Surface dwellers—and that means Logan, too.

Trapped by the steel walls of the underground and the lies that keep her safe, Clementine must find a way to escape and rescue Logan and the rest of the planet. But the planet leaders don't want her running—they want her subdued.

With urgent writing, fluid dialogue, and a cast of unforgettable characters, Extraction is a page-turning, gripping read, sure to entertain lovers of Hunger Games and Ender's Game, and leave them breathless for more.

And now for the playlist! This is a collection of songs I listened to while writing the novel, each of which has some relation to the story or the mood of particular scenes. I hope you enjoy it!

1.      "The Letter that Never Came" – Thomas Newman

2.      "Shelter" – Birdy

3.      "I Will Follow You into the Dark" – Death Cab for Cutie

4.      "After the Storm" – Mumford & Sons

5.      "Your Guardian Angel" – Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

6.      "Radioactive" – Imagine Dragons

7.      "Fade into Darkness" – Avicii

8.      "Vanilla Twilight" – Owl City

9.      "End of All Time" – Stars of Track and Field

***Grand Prize Giveaway***

2 Surprise 2014 ARCs + swag

Yep, these will be from my own shelf. Yep, this giveaway is open INTERNATIONALLY. Yep, it is a surprise and I am not telling you what the ARCs will be but here's an idea of what MIGHT be in it:

Any of these books are fair game! But in the end, the winner will only get 2. And I promise that the surprise ARCs will be good:)

Here are the rules of entry:

1) OPEN INTERNATIONALLY
2) The winner has 48 hours to respond to my email. If not, I will have to pick a new winner. 

3) The prize will be sent out at my discretion, so I might take me a little longer than a week to get it to you.

4) In order to earn the maximum amount of entries, you can comment on EVERY SINGLE DAY of New Year, New Books!

5) GOOD LUCK!

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