Week 11 Reviews: Mothership, A Stranger Thing, The World Forgot

From Goodreads:
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.

From Goodreads:
In this witty, adventurous sequel to Mothership, which Publishers Weekly called "a whole lot of fun" Elvie Nara is back on earth—but her life (including her new baby) is still pretty out there!

Pregnancy was pretty rough for sixteen-year-old Elvie Nara, what with the morning sickness, constant food cravings, and the alien race war she found herself in the middle of. But if she thought giving birth to an extraterrestrial's baby would be the hard part, she was sorely mistaken.

After Elvie somehow has a baby girl, the always-male Almiri completely wig out. Suddenly Elvie's supposed allies have shipped her—along with her father, her best friend, Ducky, and her maybe-boyfriend, boneheaded Almiri commando Cole Archer—off to a remote "retention facility" (aka alien jail) in Antarctica. Talk about cold. But things really get complicated when a new group of hybrid aliens arrive with information that sends Elvie's world spinning. Before long, Elvie is trekking across the bottom of the Earth with a band of friends and frenemies to uncover the secrets of her own origin. Will Elvie ever be able to convince the Almiri that a conspiracy to conquer the planet is a greater threat than a sixteen-year-old girl and a newborn who won't stop crying?

From Goodreads:
In this hilarious, action-packed conclusion to The Ever-Expanding Universe trilogy, teen mom Elvie Nara is on a quest across the universe to save her daughter (and maybe stop an alien race war in the process).

After dealing with killer whales, evil scientists, the return of her long-lost mother and, certainly not least of all, the challenges of breastfeeding, Elvie Nara has just about had it. And then the Jin'Kai (along with the aforementioned estranged mom) kidnap her baby.

And before she knows it, another Jin'Kai attack puts her on the run again, but not before discovering that Olivia was implanted with a genetic tracking device. So along with Cole, Ducky, and her dad, Elvie goes back out into space to follow the signal. There she finds evil Dr. Marsden up to some evil tricks and realizes that Mars may hold the secret to defeating her enemies once and for all. So, off to Mars she goes. Because alien race war aside, Elvie really wants to be back with her daughter. For a kid she wasn't even sure she wanted, Olivia has come to mean the world to Elvie—and she'll search the universe to be with her again.

My first reveiw of Mothership
My Review:
Wow, these books were just hilarious to read! I loved them so much, they were such easy reads, in that I read all 3 in one day, even when I was having a migraine and so was sleeping a lot of the day, too.  Such great books!

I remembered the big beats about Mothership, but it was really great to read it again, because it's just that good! A Stranger Thing, we got to meet new characters, like Zee, and then in The World Forgot, we met Chloe. Both are very important in different, but similar, ways! Loved all the developments that happened as I read through this series!

I really enjoyed the way that things ended. It was a fairly intellectual battle in the end, and I enjoyed the moves that Elvie made! Then half of the group, going off into the galaxy to track the bad guys, yeah, pretty hopeful ending, that has spin off potential, even now, almost 4 years after the 3rd book was published. I'm hopeful for more!

There are still a few questions that I have, some more important than others. Like what was Captain Max real name? And then there's the time where Elvie saw Britta in A Stranger Thing, and then she was a prisoner of Dr. Marsden. So what happened there? Also, I wish we could've see the rest of the teen moms in the other books, because there were some characters, like Natty and Heather!

Really enjoyed this series, it was a great read, and yeah, I wouldn't mind more!

Authors: Martin Leicht and Isla Neal
Series: Ever-Expanding Universe #1, 2, 3
First Read: December 8th, 2015
Read: March 10th, 10th, 10th, 2019
Source: Own
Reason Why: Rereading, and they're Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2019 Books! And The World Forgot is a End of Series 2019 Book!
Publisher: Saga Press
Published: July 10th 2012, November 12th 2013, April 14th 2015

Mothership:

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

A Stranger Thing:

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

The World Forgot:

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars