Hi everyone! I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the ALONE OUT
HERE by Riley Redgate Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post
and make sure to enter the giveaway!
About The Book:
Title: ALONE OUT HERE
Author: Riley Redgate
Pub.
Date: April
5, 2022
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
Formats: Hardcover,
eBook, Audiobook
Pages: 400
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What do you stand
for, when you're one of the last left standing?
The year is 2072. Soon a volcanic eruption will trigger catastrophic
devastation, and the only way out is up.
While the world’s leaders, scientists, and engineers oversee the frantic
production of a space fleet meant to save humankind, their children are brought
in for a weekend of touring the Lazarus, a high-tech prototype spaceship. But
when the apocalypse arrives months ahead of schedule, First Daughter Leigh Chen
and a handful of teens from the tour are the only ones to escape the planet.
This is the new world: a starship loaded with a catalog of human artifacts, a
frozen menagerie of animal DNA, and fifty-three terrified survivors. From the
panic arises a coalition of leaders, spearheaded by the pilot’s enigmatic
daughter, Eli, who takes the wheel in their hunt for a habitable planet. But as
isolation presses in, their uneasy peace begins to fracture. The struggle for
control will mean the difference between survival and oblivion, and Leigh must
decide whether to stand on the side of the mission or of her own humanity.
With aching poignancy and tense, heart-in-your-mouth action, this
enthralling saga will stay with readers long after the final page.
Reviews:
"Redgate explores what makes us
human and what makes us teens with excruciating precision, revealing the
best―and worst―of both. A fast-paced, beautifully put together story of a girl
getting it done."―E. K. Johnston, New York Times #1 best-selling
author of Star Wars: Ahsoka
"With its diverse cast of characters and near-future plot line, this book
would make a good addition to collections with established audiences for
science fiction stories and titles featuring strong examples of female
empowerment."―School Library Connection
“An enthralling adventure that’s at once intimate and cinematic, with
heart-pounding twists and vividly drawn characters. Redgate’s gorgeous prose
poses fascinating questions about the future.”―Romina Russell, author of
the New York Times best-selling Zodiac series
“Stunning, visceral, and utterly gripping, Alone Out Here is a
vivid look at human determination when forced to survive the impossible. Leigh
Chen is a leader unlike any other as she navigates dwindling resources,
betrayal, and the ultimate question of what it means to be human.”―C.B.
Lee, author of the Sidekick Squad series
“Utterly absorbing, and packed with heart, action, and questions that lingered
long past the final page. I read it in a single day.”―Amie Kaufman,
author of the Aurora Cycle and the Elementals trilogy
EXCERPT:
[Epigraph]
Tell me what you can’t forget, and I’ll tell you who you are. —Julie Buntin, Marlena
We long only for the world we were born into. —Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven
I remember one night more clearly than the rest. It was the hottest July on record, and I was fifteen, lying awake and sweaty on the faded linen sofa in Lilly’s basement. With the way the crickets were squalling, Lilly couldn’t get to sleep, which meant no chance of sleep for Marcus or me, either. So the three of us were talking ourselves out into the universe, fantasizing in scratchy voices about God and death and the first day of sophomore year, and around two a.m., we wound up whispering about the end of the world.
We’d kicked the questions around before. Maybe you did, too. If the apocalypse hit tomorrow, which five people would you pick for your zombie survival team? Which three things would you take down to the nuclear bunker? What would you save from the wasteland?
We never settled on answers. Lilly drifted off halfway through, and the next morning, Marcus kept swapping his choices back and forth, clarifying the rules over breakfast. “Is there internet in this wasteland?” he asked, thumbing his glasses up. “If I brought my headset, could I have unlimited games?”
Lilly rolled her eyes and said, “God, Marcus, what kind of amateur apocalypse do you think this is?” and I lay back in her window seat and laughed, loose-limbed, careless, because everything we were saying felt unreal.
That was three years ago. Now, most nights, I lie awake and watch those moments replaying across the backs of my eyelids. I retrace the pikes of sunlight angled through the kitchen window or feel the frayed threads of the sofa, the patches that Lilly’s golden retriever pawed to death when he was too young to know better. I hear the way my best friends sighed after they laughed, deep and contented, like they’d just taken a cold drink on a hundred-degree day. It hurts to remember, knowing that two months later, the announcements froze that world like amber engulfing a living thing. But I can’t make myself stop.
I wish I could show it to you, too—really show you. I wish I could scan my old life out into VR space so you could walk all the way inside. We’d step through Lilly’s messy little kitchen like archaeologists through some perfectly preserved temple, and I’d pause the scene, point to the scar on Lilly’s chin, and tell you that happened when we were thirteen, the day she hacked off a foot of her hair with a pair of garden shears on a dare from Marcus. He wasn’t even being serious, and as for me, I stood there and watched with a stupid grin on my face, not believing it would happen until it did. And maybe you’d say Lilly sounds reckless or impulsive, and Marcus and I should have known better. And I’d say, probably, but that’s Lilly, that’s Marcus, that’s us. That’s what I’d save.
About
Riley Redgate:
Riley
Redgate majored in Economics at Kenyon College
and is now based in Chicago, where she was an apprentice with the Onion.
She is the author of the critically acclaimed Seven Ways We Lie; Noteworthy,
a Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Book and NYPL Best Book; and Final Draft,
a Bank Street Book of the Year.
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