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The truth about peeps seemed to depend on who was talking about them. At what point did you begin to wonder if Cal knew their real story? Why?

cal only seemed to think he knew their real story. what he did not seem to perceive is that there is more people in need of help, not just his ex girlfriends.

What did you think about Night Watch? Did you question any of their tactics? Did you feel the same way about all the members?

i felt that the night watch was helpful... in a way. sure, they want to help peeps, but can they really help so many in the world? it takes too long, and when they finally succeed in cleansing one, a dozen more could become infected.

Why do you think the author included the alternating chapters on parasites? How did they make you feel? Were they necessary to the story?

personally, i felt that the alternating chapters on parasites were just put there to make the book seem a bit quicker to read. i didn't mind them, and the information helped (sorta), but most of it was just unnecessary and not useful.

How would you react towards Cal if you, like Lace, had been accidentally infected? Were you surprised by her reaction? Why or why not?

if i was accidentally infected by cal i'd be more angry than i could express on this website blog.

Did you feel any sympathy for the peeps? Do you think they were victims? What do you think should happen to them?

yes, i feel that the peeps were more victimized than people thought them to be. if cal had a right mind he would have thought before he took such actions and infected so many girls. i feel that what the night watch was doing to them was helpful, but only so many peeps could have been saved.


In his website, the author says his goal was to write a vampire story that was original, tragic, funny, scary, icky and made some sense as far as science was concerned. Did he succeed? Why or why not?

i think the author succeeded in some sort of way, but as i said before, the book contained too much unnecessary information. we understand that peeps are born from a parasite, so why have so many chapters on other kinds of parasites that we do not need to know about? i could enforce my opinion on and on and on and it would be getting no where. i just did not like the book as much as i had the first time i read it because 1) i like "old-school" vampire novels, like the kind anne rice wrote 2) i felt that the grammer was meant for a 12-year-old, and 3) it was just too fictional compared to how other kinds of vampires are perceived. what happened to the blood sucking, red-eyed, seductive vampire that there used to be? dracula? instead we get parasites, bugs, and rats. not to mention a large quantity of the book taking place in the city's sewer system. yummy.

Why do you think the author included the alternating chapters on parasites?
How did they make you feel? Were they necessary to the story?

Scott Westerfeld, the author of Peeps included alternating chapters on parasites because it gave information that helped the reader understand about parasites and how they live. Because Scott Westerfeld included chapters about parasites it gave me a better understanding of them and it made Peeps seem more realistic. If Scott Westerfeld didn’t include the alternating chapters about parasites, his story wouldn’t be believable.
The alternating chapters made the infection of peeps more believable because they the chapters helped me understand how parasites work. In a way the other parasites Scott Westerfeld wrote about were similar to the parasite known as peeps in his book. Without any of the alternating chapter in Peeps, Scott Westerfeld wouldn’t really have a story. The alternating chapters were necessary.
Sometimes I didn’t think they were necessary but once you’re done reading the story they become necessary. In the chapter “Parasites R US” in Peeps that chapter kind of ties up all the chapters about the parasites. After reading that chapter it became clearer to me why Scott Westerfeld included those alternating chapters on parasites.

How would you react towards Cal if you, like Lace, had been accidentally infected? Were you surprised by her reaction? Why or why not?

If I found out I was accidentally infected from Cal I would be upset and angry at him. I would also be shocked that being a vampire also known as peeps is even possible. I was really surprised by Lace’s reaction. Of course she was mad at him at first, but she wasn’t freaking out or wasn’t even upset. I would’ve started to panic because this infection isn’t like any typical infection. When you’re a peep/vampire you begin to hate everything you loved before you were infected, you go insane and resort to cannibalism. Like Lace I’m also a vegetarian and I’ve been a vegetarian for 3 years, so I would be extremely angry at Cal because now I have to eat meat to keep myself and the parasite alive.
However if I knew the infection could be cured I wouldn’t be as angry at Cal. Which in the end you find out the infection can be cured, not fully, but temporarily. With the cure you don’t hate what you loved before you were infected and you don’t go insane and eat people. You still live with the infection, but you can treat it. Having the infection isn’t completely bad though. If you’re infected you can see in the dark, you have really good hearing, eye sight, you have more strength, and you stay fit all the time. So, I guess you have to look more at the positive side of having the infection in order to cope with it.

- Jennifer Guarracino