Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Source: Library
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Teen pregnancy is never easy—especially not when extraterrestrials are involved. The first in a new trilogy.
Elvie Nara was doing just fine in the year 2074. She had a great best friend, a dad she adored, and bright future working on the Ares Project on Mars. But then she had to get involved with sweet, gorgeous, dumb-as-a-brick Cole--and now she’s pregnant.
Getting shipped off to the Hanover School for Expecting Teen Mothers was not how Elvie imagined spending her junior year, but she can go with the flow. That is, until a team of hot commandos hijacks the ship--and one of them turns out to be Cole. She hasn’t seen him since she told him she’s pregnant, and now he’s bursting into her new home to tell her that her teachers are aliens and want to use her unborn baby to repopulate their species? Nice try, buddy. You could have just called.
So fine, finding a way off this ship is priority number one, but first Elvie has to figure out how Cole ended up as a commando, work together with her arch-nemesis, and figure out if she even wants to be a mother--assuming they get back to Earth in one piece.
This book is exactly what the cover suggests it is. It’s fluff. The question arises as to whether it’s good or bad fluff and in my opinion, this book is fluff of the good variety. It didn’t always feel that
way though. The first 100 pages or so were incredibly painful. I kept
questioning the sanity of our main character and my own sanity too for continuing to read a book I wasn't enjoying. The reason I read on, even though I wasn't having a swell time, was because the book was funny. I hoped that the book would get better as I went along and I was right, it did. It got insanely better and I
started actually enjoying the book instead of just laughing at the funny parts.
Elvie is our main character and happens to be knocked
up. When I first found out about this series, I was intrigued by how the
book would deal with teen pregnancy in a sci-fic setting. Worry not though,
this book is not serious. It’s pretty goshdarn funny and even if it makes you question whether the author is dealing with an important issue like this
with the sensitivity it deserves. Sometimes, you don’t want a deep and moving
book! Sometimes you really just want some fluff.
Going back to Elvie though. Elvie is snarky and obviously
has mommy issues. This leads to her being detached from her pregnancy and the idea that she is actually having a kid.She calls her fetus goober from pete’s sake. But Elvie is smart, and while she
sometimes annoyed me with her slut shamming and her general outlook on some of
her other peers, she still managed to be likeable because in spite of
everything that had happened to her, she didn’t spend a lot of time moping
around. She took action!
Cole on the other hand was an entirely questionable love
interest. I despised him for the first 100 pages and questioned Elvie’s sanity
for being so head over heels for a doofus for whom she was the ‘other’ girl and
who bailed the moment he found out about the baby. But we get explanations for
his jerk behavior and while they aren’t a 100% satisfying, they brought a
much needed explanation as to how someone so smart as Elvie could love a
dumbdumb like Cole.
I guess the one thing Cole has going for him is that even
though he may not be the brightest bulb, he is loyal and is definitely smarter
than he is given credit for. Especially given the way his superiors discredited him. There were moments in their relationship that were
adorable and I think what makes their relationship work is that Elvie isn’t
with him for his brains, she knows he isn’t super smart, she’s with him because
he is sweet and caring (if dense at times).
This book is very fast paced and if I remember correctly, a
lot of it takes place over the course of 24 hours. It’s got a lot of action and
could be surprisingly brutal at times (meaning not everyone is alive at the end
… including a character I had grown to love). I do like how the author paces
the book though. It fits what the author is going and he does it
just right so that the book never feels rushed. It feels exciting.
This is a fun fluffy book and while it takes a bit to get
used to, it is worth it since it’s such a fast-paced cutesy read
with a great futuristic setting and a bit of space opera (if it can be
classified as such).
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