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My Soul to Keep (African Immortals, Bk 1)
My Soul to Keep - African Immortals, Bk 1
Author: Tananarive Due
Jessica is an African-American journalist, as ambitious as she is bright. She is chasing the biggest story of her life, a story that strikes closer to home than she knows. — Dawit is an immortal, whose ancient thirst for wisdom leads him to break the first commandment of his kind: not to fall in love. — Together they are about to pay the ultimate ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780061053665
ISBN-10: 006105366X
Publication Date: 4/1/1998
Pages: 352
Rating:
  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
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4.1 stars, based on 27 ratings
Publisher: Eos
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 4
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reviewed My Soul to Keep (African Immortals, Bk 1) on + 11 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Couldn't put this book down - well written, fast-paced and wonderful twists and turns.
reviewed My Soul to Keep (African Immortals, Bk 1) on + 155 more book reviews
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Tananarive Due writes well, and her vampire tales aren't populated with the usual bloodsucking fiends and goth grrls. Complex characters with long histories interact thoughtfully and take challenging paths to their goals. In My Soul to Keep, African-American journalist Jessica Wolde encounters Dawit, the beautiful immortal (definitely not-your-Bram-Stokerish-vampire). Love, loss, change, growth ensue.
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Helpful Score: 2
What would people be like if they never aged, never got sick, never died?
Jessica is about to find out. She's a Miami investigative reporter with a beautiful daughter, Kira, and a husband, David, so loving, so brilliant, and attentive that she calls him Mr. Perfect. Suddenly, however, her life takes a terrifying turn. Her best friend is brutally and mysteriously murdered and Jessica discovers an ancient, unimaginable danger that will shatter her life and family-forever.

Dawitt is an immortal. More than four hundred years ago he and a sect of Ethiopin scholars traded their souls for eternal life. Obeying a vow of secrecy, Dawitt has traveled the world as a soldier, a slave, a jazz musician-never staying anywhere long enough for others to notice that he does not age. As futher insurance, with barely a thought he kills any mortal who dares to become too curious about him. For the first time, though, it is Dawitt that threatens to break his vow and defy his brothers by keeping his beloved mortal wife and child with him-forever.
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