Book Review: Peeps
This is book thirty-seven in 52 books in 52 weeks
Britnie recommended this book by Scott Westerfeld. She also recommended a Stephanie Meyer book, which I threw on the floor in disgust at how bad it was after ten pages. This one was better.
It has an interesting structure. Vampires are looked at as more of a virus than a monster, so in between chapters of the story, there are chapters about a different virus and why it’s good or bad for humans or the Earth. So while the story was just ok, the different short chapters on a virus were pretty interesting.
Peeps are people that have been attacked by vampires. Most of them become kind of like zombies, just stumbling around looking for something to chew on. Occasionally they become carriers, meaning they have the superpowers of a vampire, but can live fairly normally in the daylight with other people. Giving somehat plausible scientific explanations for various vampire traits like not appearing in mirrors and not being able to go out in daylight was another interesting part of the book.
So a guy has sex with a girl and becomes a carrier. He becomes part of a group of people that have been tracking and capturing peeps for hundreds of years. Besides tracking down the people he’s infected, he’s trying to track down the source of his infection. While looking for her, he stumbles on a mysterious peep conspiracy. He meets a girl that may or may not be helping him track down the girl that infected him. It’s a quick read, and fairly well written for a junior fiction novel. I’m not interested enough to read more of his stuff unless Britnie recommends it, but it was good, clean fun.
C+
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