Peeps (Bccb Blue Ribbon Fiction Books (Awards)) | Scott Westerfeld

Peeps (Bccb Blue Ribbon Fiction Books (Awards)) | Scott Westerfeld | Great Concept!

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Peeps (Bccb Blue R...

	Peeps (Bccb Blue Ribbon Fiction Books (Awards)) Scott Westerfeld, 2005 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 51 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

One year ago, Cal Thompson was a college freshman more interested in meeting girls and partying in New York City than in attending his biology classes. 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?and all have turned into the ravening ghouls Cal calls peeps. The rest of us know them as vampires. And it?s Cal?s job to hunt them down before they can create even more of their kind. . . .

Bursting with the sharp intelligence and sly humor that are fast becoming his trademark, Scott Westerfeld?s new novel is an utterly original take on an archetype of horror.

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Sing Happy Birthday

I enjoyed this book very much. It is always hard to pick out a book without a friend's reccomendation. I bought this because I enjoyed both Twilight and Uglies. For me, it is more mature than those books. Not as cheesy. I liked that he wrote from a man's perspective and included mroe scientific information. It was more believable. I still find myself singing Happy Birthday to keep away the parasites. If you like Twilight, Uglies, or the Hot Zone I would reccomend this book. Give it about 3 chapters and then it gets really good!

Great Concept!

I really loved the idea that being a vampire was like catching a disease, and it was also very zombie-like. I thought the inner chapters of other species of parasites was intruging and disgusting, and made me really look at stuff differently after that!

My only disappointment was the end, well sort of. The way the parasite was transferred seemed silly and cheesy to me, and I found myself laughing, and not in a good way. Other than that though this was pretty good!

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Original, sharp and fun!

When I picked up this book I didn't know what to think of it. As I've recently discovered the vampire genre and fantasy related books (Stephanie Meyers "Twilight" and Kelly Armstrong's "Bitten" are some fine examples) I was eager for more of the same quality and stumbled upon "Peeps."

What's great about this book is that the vampires in question are not at all what you expect them to be. The explanation offered is original and sounds plausible. Seriously, vampire obsessed teenagers might even start considering this as their bible: proof that vampires do exist! (Stranger things have happened; "Elvis is Alive" or "Bruce Lee is actually meditating in a cave" anyone?)

The book is narrated by Cal, a sarcastic, fresh and little geeky 19 year old boy. If you're failing Biology, get this book and you'll be armed with a whole arsenal of facts about things you never really wanted to know. But your teacher will be impressed, trust me.

I'm not going to draw out the storyline for you; others have done that already. Besides, it kind of ruines the experience. This is the kind of book you should buy blindly. Do it at one of those moments where your wallet is burning in your jeans. But this time, instead of bashing your head against a wall, you'll be thinking "man, I should do that more often!"

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Peeps: More then just sugar-coated marshmallows

Scott Westerfield delivers a wonderfully different take on Vampires (or Peeps for this book). His are caused by a parasite (oh the things you will learn about them in this book, you'll either enjoy the information or skip the even numbered chapters), and are oddly believable and quite fun.

The plot was enjoyable, but still suffers from Westerfield's inability to write action scenes tat you can follow without having to re-read sentences. His Peeps where interesting and fun, up till the end when they got confusing, he obviously intended for this to be a big reveal, and it came off very head-scratchy. I think I would have preferred just a little more explanation for this book, instead of saving it for the next.

As others have said, Cal's forced celibacy should have been more present and enforced. After all he is a teenage boy (albeit a very mature one), and I didn't find it completely believable how little he thought about sex.

I think this book is a great teen read for anyone ages 14 and above, who is looking for either a new take on vampires or is big on the biology and fantasy.

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