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Peeps

by Scott Westerfeld

Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Cal Thompson more interested in meeting girls and partying in New York City than in attending his biology classes, this situation was until his fateful encounter with a mysterious woman named Morgan, after that 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. . . .

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...away with, sucking out the nutrients it needs to create more offspring. But no parasite wants to starve the host too quickly, not while it's getting a free ride. So, as long as it gets fed, it backs off. I may eat like a four-hundred-pound guy, but I never get fat. The parasite uses the nutrients to churn out its spores in my blood and saliva and semen, with enough left over to give me predatory strength and hyped-up senses. Optimum virulence is why most deaths from parasites are long and lingering--in the case of a carrier like me, the time it takes to die happens to be longer than a normal human life span. That's the way the older peep hunters talk about it: not so much immortality as a centuries-long downward spiral. Maybe that's why they use the word undead. So I lie awake every night, listening to the gnawing, calorie-burning struggle inside me, and getting up for the occasional midnight snack. That particular long night, I found myself thinking about Lace,...

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All comments: 8

Michelle

05 Nov 2010 19:48:46

This author has written some good books, and maybe I'm biased by vampire-stories-that-don't-stick-to-the-myth hatred, but I hated this book. It's just another Stephenie Meyer/Vampire bestseller wannabe.