A review by julieabe89
Thirst No. 5: The Sacred Veil by Christopher Pike

3.0

Thirst No. 5 is the finale for Christopher Pike’s best-selling vampire series. It’s technically book nine in the Last Vampire Series but if you read the Thirst publications it is book five as the first six are shorter and put into the first two books together. All stories follow Sita, a 5000 year old vampire, as she fights to stay alive against numerous enemies. The books jumped the shark with book 4 when we find out the ending of book 3 never happened, and instead of returning to her human life, Sita returned to the present and kept living. We were introduced to the IIC and Telar, another ancient immortal race of beings, plus the idea that Sita’s instincts can be wrong about people because Shanti is possessed by Tarana, an evil spirit/possible alien being that is also Lucifer. In this book Sita is on the run with Matt, Seymour and Ms. Brutran from all the government agencies looking for them after they destroyed the IIC, because of the cradle and Tarana. However this book goes further introducing the idea that Sita was incarcerated in Auschwitz and tortured but she can’t remember what about. It brings the Veil of Veronica, an ancient Judeo-Christian artifact into her story. All of it connected to the Germans looking for an extraterrestrial ship that she apparently had been on 5000 years before that she can’t remember. Other than the main character, I can’t even believe it’s the same storyline as the first few books. It was enjoyable but rather insane.