Reading level: Young Adult
Publisher: Razorbill
Rated 9/10
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.
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.
MY REVIEW
Awesome book, it's a whole different take on the whole vampire story. The story has some very funny parts, my favorite line in the whole book was when Lace said, "Are you saying your fat-ass cat has turned me into a vampire?" That line there gave me a little chuckle when I read it. I've also learned more about parasites reading this book then I have ever wanted to know LOL! It has been a year since Cal has been infected with a parasite that causes what we would call vampirism(but instead of calling them vampires they call them peeps) when he lost his virginity to a woman named Morgan. Now Cal is a carrier, someone who carries the virus but doesn't get all the symptoms like cannibalism, craziness, sensitivity to the light. He works for the Night Watch who are older than the New World, they try to control the spread of the peep causing parasite. Cal is finally done tracking down all of the people he has kissed or slept with(that how he spread the parasite before he knew he was a carrier),except Morgan. When he gets a lead and goes to the building Morgan used to live he meets Lace.Cal soon tells Lace about the parasite and the Night Watch. He soon discovers the secrets of the parasite and it's origins and has to make some new decisions even knowing it could mean an apocalypse.
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