Scott Westerfeld is arguably the master of modern-day sci-fi. His books, whether they are set in this present world, or in a future place, are always easy to relate to and understand. Even readers who have not read PEEPS (and you should) will enjoy this one.
THE LAST DAYS is essentially a story about five wannabe musicians getting together to form a band. There's Pearl: musically talented, smart, rich, an entrepreneur, and a little bossy on the keyboard. There's Moz, the talented but untrained guitarist who along with Pearl saves a rare Stratocaster guitar that a crazy woman was chucking out of her apartment window. Zahler is Moz's best friend, guitarist turned bassist, who constantly feels as if he's the band's weak link and has a penchant for making up new words (fawesome!).
The threesome hire Alana Ray, a talented but neurotically challenged drummer who drums on paint buckets and can see what music looks like. And finally there's Minerva, Pearl's friend who was bitten by something and now exhibits vampirish and vaguely cannibalistic tendencies--but whose singing talent somehow connects the whole band together into something paranormal.
When the band rehearses, strange things happen. The ground beneath them rumbles, as if something is struggling to reach them from underground. Meanwhile, the infected Minerva develops a relationship with Moz, as the parasite inside of her tries to spread itself by making her horny and irresistible.
In their journey to find an agent and get signed up to a label, the still nameless band learn that there is something very powerful about their music, as it has a way of summoning up the human race's greatest enemy from deep within the earth where they reside. Now, the five young men and women must use their musical and supernatural talents to help the peeps, infected humans who can control their vampirish tendencies and who were created to help save humanity. Together, they will summon and fight the enemies until nearly all are extinct. Until next time.
The world that Scott Westerfeld has created is creepily realistic. I got chills from reading this novel, and anything that moves me to such a reaction is extraordinary.
THE LAST DAYS is essentially a story about five wannabe musicians getting together to form a band. There's Pearl: musically talented, smart, rich, an entrepreneur, and a little bossy on the keyboard. There's Moz, the talented but untrained guitarist who along with Pearl saves a rare Stratocaster guitar that a crazy woman was chucking out of her apartment window. Zahler is Moz's best friend, guitarist turned bassist, who constantly feels as if he's the band's weak link and has a penchant for making up new words (fawesome!).
The threesome hire Alana Ray, a talented but neurotically challenged drummer who drums on paint buckets and can see what music looks like. And finally there's Minerva, Pearl's friend who was bitten by something and now exhibits vampirish and vaguely cannibalistic tendencies--but whose singing talent somehow connects the whole band together into something paranormal.
When the band rehearses, strange things happen. The ground beneath them rumbles, as if something is struggling to reach them from underground. Meanwhile, the infected Minerva develops a relationship with Moz, as the parasite inside of her tries to spread itself by making her horny and irresistible.
In their journey to find an agent and get signed up to a label, the still nameless band learn that there is something very powerful about their music, as it has a way of summoning up the human race's greatest enemy from deep within the earth where they reside. Now, the five young men and women must use their musical and supernatural talents to help the peeps, infected humans who can control their vampirish tendencies and who were created to help save humanity. Together, they will summon and fight the enemies until nearly all are extinct. Until next time.
The world that Scott Westerfeld has created is creepily realistic. I got chills from reading this novel, and anything that moves me to such a reaction is extraordinary.
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