Helpful Score: 2
Couldn't put this book down - well written, fast-paced and wonderful twists and turns.
Helpful Score: 2
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.
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.
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.
