*I want to preface this review by saying I have nothing against the communities mentioned in my review. maybe I'm overthinking this, but there might be a fine line between reality and fantasy and I think this might have crossed over to the fantasy line.

Yes, there are very supportive family and friends and yes the world goes on, but Sara barely had anything negative occur. While I'm all for feel good books, as I thought about this, my rating dropped from 4 stars to 3 stars because I felt that Darrows, the author, almost was doing a disservice to pregnant teens. It also introduces a group session for teen mothers-to-be but Sara seems to only attend once, even though she thought it helpful (especially showing that there are people worse off than she is). So, she's got the bases covered, mostly.However, Belly Up seems to gloss over the ruined college plans for an 'A' student.although I'm writing this with 50 pages to go, so maybe I'm wrong. Along the way, the author manages to throw in bisexual and transgender, demisexual and non-binary. She has a supportive best friend, supportive mother and supportive grandmother, the latter two thenselves having had babies out of wedlock.Much of the book discusses Sara's changing body, raging hormones and tremendous appetite. While it might exist, I'm betting it's extremely rare.Sara (Serendipity) gets drunk at a party and has a one-truck seat stand, partly because her ex-boyfriend, who broke her heart, is at the party fawning over his new girlfriend. Read moreĪ humorous, feel good, idyllic (unrealistic?) view of teen pregnancy. Will he still be her friend when he inevitably finds out she's pregnant? How will the rest of her classmates act? A teen novel about unplanned pregnancy that's funny, real, and supportive. In addition to navigating her pregnancy Sara is also trying to navigate her way around a new high school and the feelings she has on one of the few other people of color in her school. She starts to realize though that she is surrounded by loving caring people and she has it much easier than many other teen moms in her pregnancy group.

Everything is so gross and new and scary. She is trying to come to terms with the fact that she has a womb goblin and is going to have to put her college plans on hold (or make new ones) but it's hard to wrap her brain around it. Sara has her mother, her battle ax grandma, and her best friend, Devi. Not only is her father not in the picture, but neither is baby daddy. Belly Up is a teen story about a girl who makes a stupid mistake and, you guessed it,gets knocked up. She writes how they think, how they talk, and how they perceive the world around them. I'm a huge fan of Eva Darrows she's a young adult author that actually writes for teens.

Belly up by eva darrows