
Sita falls in love, confronts her past and begins to look to her future and even though it’s a slow character arc, it’s believable. 1 (which were originally published separately), we begin to see an almost human side of her. As she grows throughout the three books that make up Thirst No. She’s hardly sympathetic in the beginning, but at least she is interesting. I think Sita is proof of Loren Estleman’s statement in his book on writing that characters don’t have to be sympathetic, but they have to be interesting. No, it’s not a science origins vampire story, but it is interesting and Christopher Pike created an interesting world around it.

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