"Waiting on" Wednesday [21]

Extraction by Stephanie Diaz

Publication Date: July 22, 2014

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Synopsis 

"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 intense action scenes 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.

This looks like a great mix of dystopian and science fiction and I've been waiting for Extraction by Stephanie Diaz to be released since last year. I'm excited to see what debut author Stephanie Diaz has to offer the world of science fiction. As one of my most anticipated releases of this month, July 22nd can't come soon enough.

Check it out on Goodreads!