Thirst No. 2-Christopher Pike

I love this book series. It's so easy to read. It's non-stop action and it has a ton of twists. I highly recommend it to all the vampire fans out there.
Sita's story continues in these three books: SPOILER ALERT!
In Phantom, after Sita becomes human again, Ray comes back from the dead and he and Sita move into a house together. Sita becomes pregnant with her daughter. She meets Paula, another pregnant girl. Sita is only pregnant for about 2 months in all, the growth of the baby is accelerating. When her daughter is born violently, she is name Kalika, she who destroys. Kalika is part vampire and needs blood, so Sita regretfully tricks a boy into coming home with her. His blood feeds Kalika. Kalika is fully grown within a couple week, looking about 20 years old. She is the incarnation of Kali Ma. She wants to see Paula's baby once he is born. Paula runs with the baby soon after. Sita uses some of the baby's blood with Yaksha's too make her a vampire again. She faces her daughter and Seymour is stabbed. Sita heals him with the rest of the baby's blood she had from the hospital.
In Evil Thirst, Sita meets Dr. Seter and James. They have a scripture that Suzama, an old friend of Sita's from Egypt and she could see the future, wrote and Sita wants to see it. It mentions that Krishna, Jesus and this baby all have the same soul. It mentions the Dark Mother, Kali Ma. Kalika is still after the baby and they all end up at Lake Tahoe. Sita finds out who James (Ory) really is only after her daughter is fatally injured.
In Creatures of Forever, Sita finds out that some aliens from another dimension have her blood. They are the Setian for back in Egypt, lizard beings. Alanda, an old friend of Sita that she doesn't remember assists Sita in going back in time only in soul to stop Landolf from ever getting her blood. She goes back to when she saves Dante whose a leper. She plays out what happened as it should until the confrontation, where she kills Landolf only to find out Dante is the real Landolf. She doesn't give him her blood.
In the end, Sita goes back to when Yaksha was born and stabs his infant body.
She has changed her path. She will not become a vampire. So, how come there's a Thirst No. 3 if there are no vampire anymore?

~*Haley*

Thirst No. 1-Christopher Pike

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.

Pop Lit Journal:

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*