Mothership by Martin Leicht
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

WOW! The Hanover School is a school for pregnant teens...in space! And it starts off with our heroine falling on her behind, but she gets her tuchus up and she runs for the rest of the book!

The action never stops. So, it isn't giving anything away to say that Elvie is at the Hanover School because her baby daddy gorgeous high school boyfriend abandoned her as soon as he found out she was preggers and she is escaping her evil cheerleading nemesis Britta. Unfortunately, the Hanover school and fate are planning to deal Elvie a horrible blow: Alien teachers, Britta and her gorgeous boyfriend. All brought together in the floating school for pregnant teens.

Will Elvie ever tell Britta to stuff it? Will she and Cole get back together? Should they? What's up with these alien teachers? And why are all the guys so darn hunky?

If you want a truly hysterical read, try Motherhood. The characters are really delightful and I tore through the book in one day. I couldn't put it down.

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The Doomsday Vault by Steven Harper
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Author Steven Harper has done a bang-up job creating a very interesting steampunk world with a clockworker virus being the cause of the Victorian technological accomplishments. It is a fascinating conceit. The only quibble I have is that for the first 1/3 of the book it really feels like it is two separate stories. It is hard to see the link up and the change between them is distinct. When they finally come together it is great!

What I especially liked about this novel was its unconventionality. There were gay characters in steampunk! The automatons have quirky personalities and the villians do as well. One is never quite sure what is what in this crazy, turned upside world. Just when you think you have a handle on what will happen, the rug is pulled out from underneath you. It is intricately plotted, just like the automatons are intricately created and it shows. I stayed up late many a night to get to the end because I could not put it down. At nearly 400 pages, it is a long, satisfying read!


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