2025 Nostalgia Re-readathon | The Last Vampire #5: Evil Thirst

The Last Vampire's love and pride.

Alisa's daughter, Kalika, a bloodthirsty monster with powers far beyond Alisa's, is gone. It is Alisa's task to track her down and destroy her.

Yet Alisa still has trouble beliving her daughter is total evil. She still hopes to save Kalika, even it is means risking her own life - and perhaps the lives of everyone in the world.

I remember being unimpressed with the previous book in this series, and weary of the idea of a trilogy of Alisa v Kalika shenanigans. Mercifully, Pike cut us a break, though his way of backing out of this corner is apparently to just make shit up.

( The hunter - or the hunted? )

This was an epic story and I read it all in one sitting. I enjoyed the parallel plot from ancient Egypt, but I do not like Pike successfully reformed Kalika from a bloodthirsty evil entity into a misplaced angel who was actually doing her job re: the baby. What about all those people she killed? Her murders in this book are especially gory, ngl.

And where do we go from here? Now that Kalika has been vanquished and the baby John saved, what else is there for Alisa to do? And will Seymour make it to the end of this series alive? We have one more OG book to find out!