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After five thousand years she was again mortal.
The dead alchemist's experiment has worked. Alisa is no longer a vampire, but a frail and confused human. Not only that - she is pregnant. The baby grows in her at supernatural speed. As the stranger watches. The stranger from the past.
But what child will Alisa's seed produce?
A demon or an angel? Alisa does not know.
But the stranger does. He knows everything that ever was.
And he knows everything that is to be.
WOW.
I pretty much had to read this in one fell swoop, and then we get to the end - the dreaded cliffhanger! This the first book in this series that is not completely self-contained.
( Alisa is human. And dumb. And unleashes something even she didn't see coming )
This was a rollercoaster of a read, and I'm still not sure how I feel about it, tbh. Pike is playing so fast and loose with everything that you basically have to roll with it and just believe that he knows what he's doing and is not just flying by the seat of his pants. This reads like the first book in a trilogy, so are we in for another sophomore slump, as Book #2?
I didn't really like Kalika or find her a compelling villain. There are so many questions about her, too - what happened to the people she hunted? She claims karma, but what is that? She's also forever shielding herself with humans or other creatures, which is supremely irritating. IDK if I can take two more books of a cat and mouse game between mother and daughter. I'm glad we're only reading one of these a year, LOL.
All in all, a nice way to cap our Halloween nostalgia re-readathon this year!
