An infected New York City is back as the setting, but this book has a new perspective on the peep epidemic. The shift from the Night Watch to the new cast of characters is actually helpful. We’ve read all of Cal’s biological explanations but, really, peeps are an ancient and freaky paranormal part of history. Now the city’s getting freakier. This time around it’s more human gristle on the walls and less Garth Brooks anathema.

The book expands on the New World of the peeps and manages to be fresh and engaging. Each chapter is told from one of five different perspectives. The hodge podge band mates had unique views on everything and (most) were interesting. I liked the teenaged mindset everything’s filtered through, a kind of invincible and nonchalant acceptance of what’s going on. The ending pops up in kind of a wham bang fashion. The point seems to be the zombie peep lifestyle we get to watch until the conclusion. And now the parasite’s effects are experienced firsthand.

Definitely worth the read to conclude the (still cool) Peeps story.

(Now I can’t see the word ‘awesome’ without reading ‘fawesome’. It’s fexcellent.)