The Last Days by Scott Westerfeld

Author: Scott Westerfeld

Reading level: Young Adult

Publisher: Razorbill

Rated 8/10

A mysterious epidemic holds the city in its thrall and the chaos is contagious—black oil spews from fire hydrants, rats have taken over brooklyn, and every day, more people disappear. but all that matters to pearl, Moz, and Zahler is their new band. they ignore the madness around them and join forces with a vampire lead singer and a drummer whose fractured mind can glimpse the coming darkness. will their music stave off the end of the world . . . or summon it?

set against the gritty apocalypse that began in Peeps, The Last Days is about five teenagers who find themselves creating the soundtrack for the end of the world.

MY REVIEW
This is the sequel to Peeps and it's a very good read. Even though Cal isn't the main character you still get to see some of him towards the end, which made me a lil happy :). This tells the story of a band, Moz the guitar player, Pearl the keyboard player/manager, Zahler the once guitar player now bass player, Minerva the lead singer, and Alana Ray the drummer who drums on paint buckets. Moz and Pearl meet one night when a crazy parasite positive woman is throwing all her stuff out of a window. Moz and Pearl notice her trying to throw a 1975 Strat guitar and together they both save it. Pearl quickly sees she can use him to make a band and together they add more members. Moz adds his best friend who he's been playing guitar with for six years, Zahler. Pearl adds her friend from childhood and former band mate Minerva who is parasite positve. Zahler finds Alana Ray and Moz pays her to play for them. Together they all make wonderful music and it isn't long til they are signed and Moz and Minerva get together. Long after making out with Minerva Moz becomes a parasite positve and learns of the real danger underground, a giant worm who has a taste for human flesh, the reason there are Peeps(parasite positves) to begin with. During their first gig a deadly worm sufaces, they learn all about what is happening in the world. They discover soon after that they can stop the worms with their music.

Peeps by Scott Westerfeld

                                                          Author: Scott Westerfeld

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.