{"id":14,"date":"2013-03-20T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=14"},"modified":"2013-07-17T14:54:54","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T19:54:54","slug":"mothership-by-martin-leicht-and-isla-neal-fiction-pregnant-teens-space-yacht-attacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"Mothership, by Martin Leicht and Isla Neal (book review) – pregnant teens, space yacht, attacked!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book<\/a>Pregnant at sixteen<\/a>,
\nthe dad leaves town,
\nby 2074, some things haven’t changed.<\/p>\n

But having such a surplus of unused earth-orbiting luxury cruise ships that one can be repurposed into a school for unwed mothers? That definitely puts this book into sci fi category (aliens<\/a> as high school teachers and vid-ads targeted to your personal nutritional and health needs are just bonus!)<\/p>\n

You can find Elvie’s rather offbeat pregnancy journey at your local library<\/a> or independent bookstore<\/a> as it’s a 2012 release (still waiting on publication date for book 2).<\/p>\n

Anyone you know been abducted by aliens lately?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/b>: Mothership (The Ever-Expanding Universe, Book 1) \/ Martin Leicht and Isla Neal. Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2012. [Martin’s info<\/a>]\u00a0 [Isla’s info<\/a>]\u00a0 [video interview<\/a>] \u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>] [book trailer<\/a>] \u00a0 (Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher)<\/p>\n

My Book Talk<\/b>: Elvie wanted to go into space, but as part of the Mars colonization project, not as a pregnant teen in the first-ever low-orbit high school for unwed mothers\u2026 Getting attacked by paramilitaries wasn\u2019t part of the plan either, but Elvie still has some brains despite the Bump.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s been planning her whole life to travel everywhere, like her mom didn\u2019t get to do, dying when Elvie was born, leaving behind a huge book of maps with notes about future family trips. Her dad has an emergency plan for absolutely any possible (or improbable) event and decides that Hanover School for Expecting Teen Mothers is just the place for her; he obviously didn\u2019t know that Elvie\u2019s nemesis in the Class of 2076 would be part of the school\u2019s first group, too.<\/p>\n

And the baby\u2019s daddy? Vanished into thin air as soon as Elvie told him the news. Thankfully, she has best-friend-for-life Ducky as backup; that guy is so dorky about researching pregnancy stuff. Too bad he\u2019s on Earth, and Elvie\u2019s in orbit with snooty cheerleader Britta, who got pregnant a couple of weeks before her. No, Elvie won\u2019t tell her that Cole fathered both babies; she doesn\u2019t have a death wish.<\/p>\n

When an unexpected ship docks onto the space cruise liner, Hanover is boarded by paramilitary forces\u2026including Cole, who tells Elvie that her teachers are aliens and that their babies aren\u2019t exactly their own anymore. She decides her baby belongs on Earth when it\u2019s born in a few weeks, so she and the other very-pregnant teens waddle through escape routes and try to sabotage the aliens\u2019 plans along the way.<\/p>\n

If the teachers are aliens, what are the paramilitary guys?
\nShould Elvie believe the handsome hunk who knocked her up and left town?
\nWill there be any chocolate-pretzel-caramel-prenatal ice cream left in the snack center?<\/p>\n

In this first book of the Ever-Expanding Universe series, Elvie\u2019s life changes drastically in a short time; the rest of Earth\u2019s population is in for a big surprise as well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pregnant at sixteen, the dad leaves town, by 2074, some things haven’t changed. But having such a surplus of unused earth-orbiting luxury cruise ships that one can be repurposed into a school for unwed mothers? That definitely puts this book into sci fi category (aliens as high school teachers and vid-ads targeted to your personal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,68,62],"tags":[5,44,46,43,39,27,67,65,15,21,66,35,60,3,6,8,28],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-future","category-science-fiction","tag-coping","tag-friendship","tag-funny","tag-growing-up","tag-love","tag-medical","tag-outer-space","tag-pregnancy","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-series","tag-surprises","tag-tbr2012","tag-teens","tag-travel","tag-us-author","tag-villains"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2192,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/2192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}