Peeps by Scott Westerfeld

Genre:  Fantasy

Age Level:  14 and up

# of Pages:  304

RAC Book:  Yes

Cal Thompson is a carrier of the parasite that creates vampires.  He was infected against his will and is now a hunter to hunt down others who have been infected and need help.  After he chases down all of the people he inadvertently infected he goes searching for the one who forced this life upon him.  Through this process he meets Lace, a girl who lives in the same apartment building of the girl he is looking for, and discovers she has noticed that something is not right in her building.

As Cal continues looking for clues as to what is really going on in the vampire community, he finds that Lace is difficult to get rid of and demands he tell her the truth about what he does for a living.  Instead of fleeing like most people would, Lace tries to help him find the mysterious Morgan who began Cal’s journey and what she finds surprises them both.

This vampire story focuses more on the science of vampirism and other parasites that exist in our world.  It lacks some of the excitement and mystery of this world found in other series such as Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight or Melissa De La Cruz’s Blue Bloods.  It does provide a unique take on vampires, but students won’t find it as interesting as Westerfeld’s Uglies series.  All in all, a little slow moving and cautious about a popular topic in young adult lit. right now.

6 Responses to “Peeps by Scott Westerfeld”


  1. 1 Jennifer October 18, 2008 at 11:25 pm

    I love this book.. im reading it right now. and im at the part where Cal is trying to find out if Lace got the disease from Cal’s cat. Thanks for making this book. Some parts are funny:)
    i love it. Is there another book?

  2. 2 Maribel March 2, 2009 at 12:49 am

    I Love The Book Peep’s It Great

  3. 3 MIchelle March 11, 2009 at 12:50 pm

    Yes, Jennifer, the book, “The Last Days” is the sequel.

  4. 4 thebigboss_2@yahoo.com April 24, 2011 at 6:42 pm

    can some one tell me a brift summary about this book i kinda need it for a book report….????

  5. 5 brat diet drink December 16, 2012 at 12:01 pm

    An impressive share! I’ve just forwarded this onto a colleague who had been conducting a little homework on this. And he actually bought me breakfast because I found it for him… lol. So let me reword this…. Thanks for the meal!! But yeah, thanx for spending some time to discuss this subject here on your web page.


  1. 1 Co-review: Renay and Susan take a bite out of Peeps by Scott Westerfeld « YA Fabulous Trackback on May 20, 2009 at 9:51 am

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s




Archives


%d bloggers like this: