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| Author: |
Scott Westerfeld |
| Barcode/ISBN13: | 9780143004790 |
| ISBN: | 0143004794 |
| Imprint/Brand: | Puffin |
| Release Date: | 03 Apr 2006 |
| Format: | B Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 312 |
| Price in AUD: | $19.95 |
| Categories: | Book Vampire Horror Young Adult Australian Author |
Okay, lets clear up some myths about vampires. First of all, you won't see me using the V word much. In the Night Watch, we prefer the term parasitepositives, or peeps, for short.
The main thing to remember is that there's no magic involved. No flying. No transforming into bats or rats either . . .
After a chance encounter with a mysterious woman one night, Cal's life is changed forever. He's been infected with an insidious parasite. The good news: he's only a carrier. The bad news: he's infected all his former girlfriends and now they've turned into what Cal calls 'Peeps'. The rest of us know them as vampires. And it's Cal's job to hunt them down, before they create even more of their own kind . . .
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Peeps
Scott Westerfeld
HarperCollins Eos, 312 pages
Peeps is a fast-paced, highly enjoyable young adult vampire tale, the first in another trilogy from Scott Westerfeld.
The novel juxtaposes the story of Cal, a nineteen-year-old Texan vampire in New York, with gruesome but fascinating factual chapters describing the behaviour of various parasites which really inhabit animals and humans. In Cal’s world, you see, being a vampire means you’ve been infected with the vampire parasite ? except that Cal, luckily, is a relatively symptomless carrier, rather than an out-and-out raving mad bloodsucker. Unfortunately, Cal has infected every girl he’s ever kissed ? and his exes are not just carriers. Now, Cal works for a secret organisation that keeps tabs on the vampire population, and his job is to track down and capture all his old girlfriends, before they transform into cannibals. But while he treks around New York City in search of his exes, Cal unearths another threat to humans, a threat that is much older and far more dangerous than vampires.
