Part three of my Recommendation Sunday Scott Westerfeld posts. Today I get to recommend my favorite Westerfeld kind of series: Peeps and The Last Days.
[description from B&N]
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.
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As stated above, this is my favorite Westerfeld series even though it really isn't a series. I'm not sure why it's my favorite, but it is. His take on vampires is completely different than any other out there: they've got parasites. And some infected, like Cal, aren't even full vampires. They just carry the parasite that tries to get it's host to infect other people. This type of vampire is interesting more than anything else, since in Peeps every other chapter talks about a parasite. I guess that kind of slows the book down, but I didn't really care. I thought it was interesting, yet slightly gross, but still fool.
Now that I think about it, I think I like this one so much because of it's bizarreness and originality. Also, everything in it makes sense and is smart (I'm telling you, Scott Westerfeld is a genius) and there's a bigger, more interesting problem lying underneath what one would think is the main conflict. That bigger problem plays a bigger part in the fawesome companion book, The Last Days.
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