Within the binding of this book there are actually three books.
Sita is a fiver thousand year old vampire with a thirst for blood, though she prefers not to kill. In The Last Vampire she tries to get close to Ray Riley so she can get information about who is searching for her, who turns out to be Yaksha, the one who turned her. In Black Blood she is hunting down a psychotic vampire named Eddie who is out to destroy the human race and creating more vampires. In Red Dice she is chased down by the government and catches up with an old friend named Arturo who has a plot to turn everyone in the world into "perfect" vampire-hybrids.
I liked this series so far because the author includes a lot of action in it as well as philosophical bits and scenes from the character's past. Sita is a deep character, which makes sense because she's 5,000 years old. It's not much of a romance novel, so I liked it better for its amazingly interesting events.
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Throughout these three books there are continuing themes. The main character Sita keeps on mentioning paradoxes. A paradox is a kind of contradiction. It has to do with opposites. Sita mentions a story about a demon that asked a god for invincibility and the power to kill anyone by touching the top of his of her head. The paradox of the gifts given to him was the solution to the paradox. The question was which one was stronger. He ended up being tricked into touching the top of his own head and the gift canceled each other out and he was killed. Sita thinks her whole life is a paradox and she even discusses it with Krishna, the eighth avatar or God. Krishna talks about how everything has an opposite. Fire has ice. Day has night. Sita and Krishna are the same and yet different. It reminded me of Yin-and-Yang.
There is also a theme of life and death. Sita does not enjoy killing, though she does it when she needs to. A few times when the bad guy said that they didn’t want to die, she would come back with the phrase “Then you should never have been born.” It is true that everybody who has been born dies too. Even vampires die, but not of old age. Sita was the last vampire supposedly, so she killed the rest of the vampires to save the world from them. The first vampire, Yaksha, became tired of living so he tried to complete (originally) his mission to rid the world of vampires by killing Sita, Ray and himself. Sita, who was older than Yaksha, didn’t want to die yet. Her true desire was to become human. She wanted a baby. She wanted to create life.
Humanity is another theme in these books. Sita was only a human for a short time. She lived in a village of mostly blond haired blue eye people in a place south of what is Russia today. When she was twenty she met Rama and he became her husband. They had a daughter name Lalita. When Yaksha turned her she had to leave them. She missed them so much throughout the years. Sita became drawn to Ray because he reminded Sita of Rama. He might have been his reincarnation, but sadly, he sacrificed himself. Sita remembered Arturo, an alchemist from Florence. He knew how to change some things into other things using crystals and a copper sheet. Sita catches up with him in the third book. He wants to change all of humanity into perfect vampire-human hybrids. Sita thinks humans should stay human. She wished she stayed human. Before the bomb kills Arturo, he tells her that he knows how to make her human again. After he dies she goes to his house and uses his tools to make her human again.
~*Haley*
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