Summary: A year ago, Cal Thompson was a college freshman more interested in meeting girls and partying than in attending biology class. Now, after a fateful encounter with a mysterious woman named Morgan, biology has become, literally, Cal’s life.
Cal was infected by a parasite that has a truly horrifying effect on its host. Cal himself is a carrier, unchanged by the parasite, but he’s infected the girlfriends he’s had since Morgan. All three have turned into the ravening ghouls Cal calls Peeps. The rest of us know them as vampires. It’s Cal’s job to hunt them down before they can create more of their kind. . . .
Bursting with the sharp intelligence and sly humor that are fast becoming his trademark, Scott Westerfeld’s novel is an utterly original take on an archetype of horror.
Summary Credit: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186103.Peeps
A quick rant...
Like I have mentioned before, there are very few decent "vampire" books out there nowadays. They've all been marked by the evil that's been sweeping our nation... Twilight. BUT we DO have a saviour from this forsaken wasteland of vampire books and it comes in the form of Scott Westerfeld.
Now I was never a Westerfeld fan. I did not like the Uglies series so I was nervous to try anything else by him. Let's just say I am so glad I did.
Scott Westerfeld, I salute you.
The Good: Let's just be bad blogger and talk about the variations of the cover shall we? Out of all of them, this is my favourite but they are all amazing. I like this one because the people on the front all remind me of Cal, Lace, and Morgan.
Okay now that I've gushed about the cover, let's talk about the plot. I happen to know a lot about parasites because of spending lots of time around people in the medical profession, and I think that Westerfeld did an amazing job describing different parasites in the even chapters. It added so much more to the story without being too much of a filler kind of story.
As for the characters, they were all pretty bad-ass. Cal wasn't that stupid spineless geek, in fact he was sometimes more bad-assed then Lace who was pretty bad-assed man. I loved Lace too because she wasn't so much of a typical YA female lead. She was pretty kick-ass and I could never picture her being an I-can't-live-without-you kind of girl. Morgan was a pretty good support although we heard more of her then we saw her. She was sexy and mysterious (what else could she be really?) but when you met her, good god, you would not want to run into her in a dark alley.
I also think that among the vampire apocalypse sort of novels, this idea was fresh and original. Like Cal says, "Okay let's clear up some myths about vampires. First off, you won't be seeing me using the v-word much. In the Night Watch, we prefer the term Parasite Positives, or Peeps for short."
Those phrases alone explains why I love this book so much.
The Bad: The only mild complaint I have about this book was that I did not like the way Lace's character was introduced. But that scene is just a small part in the overall book and it didn't take anything away from my overall enjoyment of the book.
Other than that it was pretty damn close to perfect.
Overall: 10 out of 10
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