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    My Soul to Take
    My Soul to Take
    My Soul to Take
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    My Soul to Take

    Written by Tananarive Due

    Narrated by Kim Staunton

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    From the bestselling and award-winning author of The Reformatory—a heartstopping novel that continues the story of descendants of an immortal line of people who are the only ones capable of saving the world.

    Fana, an immortal with tremendous telepathic abilities, is locked in a battle of wills. Her fiancé is Michel. But Johnny Wright, a mortal who is in love with her, believes that if she doesn’t stay away from Michel, they will become the Witnesses to the Apocalypse described in the Book of Revelation.

    Fana and the Life Brothers are rushing to distribute their healing “Living Blood” throughout the world, hoping to eliminate most diseases before Fana is bound to marry Michel. Still, they cannot heal people faster than Michel can kill them. Due weaves a tangled web in this novel, including beloved
    characters from her bestselling Joplin’s Ghost, in a war of good against evil, making My Soul to Take a chilling and thrilling experience.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateNov 30, 2012
    ISBN9781470327743
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    Tananarive Due

    Tananarive Due (tah-nah-nah-REEVE doo) is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA. She is an executive producer on Shudder's groundbreaking documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror. Her books include Ghost Summer: Stories, My Soul to Keep, The Good House, and The Reformatory. She and her late mother, civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due, coauthored Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights. She is married to author Steven Barnes, with whom she collaborates on screenplays. They live with their son, Jason. 

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    • 4/5
      This book had so many layers and small details that all fit together to make this a truly enjoyable, suspenseful novel. Jessica had what she thought was a happy marriage with David and a child named Kira. Little did she know that David/ Dawit was five hundred years old and had lived many lives before her. He was offered the Life Blood, which made him immortal. Some of the scenes of his former lives were touching as well as the love he felt for Jessica and their daughter. This tale mixes thoughts on Christianity, racism, marriage, self-less love, and whole lot more into a great read.

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    • 4/5
      Best rethinking of the vampire story I have read so far.I would say that comparing this book to Ann Rice in inappropriate. This book is in another class altogether--and better.
    • 5/5
      One thing I love more than anything else in this book is how the opening sequence resonates through out the whole story. With out wanting to spoil the events of the story, I will say that it deals with Death, in a way that many other stories do not. Tananarive Due writes a story about a woman named Jessica Jacobs-Wolde, a news journalist whose married to David Wolde, a former school teacher. David Wolde has a secret, he is an Immortal (not a vampire, something else) who has to return to his colony of brothers. The Life Brothers are out to retrieve David, and kill his family because they know to much. No one must know. The first rule of the life colony. Its a very suspenseful book, with out using cheap tricks like riddles and puzzles to latch you in. The charecters are well rounded, enjoyable and intelligent. Tananarive Due's writing is very colorful and adds to the emotional content of the story. Very fine book. Very fine indeed.
    • 5/5
      David is Mr. Perfect the attentive, loving, sweet husband to newspaper reporter Jessica. He’s also a 400 year old immortal who must keep his secret at all costs. Strange things happen and David tells Jessica his secret, something he’s never done in all this time. People like the Watchers or the Talamsca (who are his brother immortals) come after Dawit (the name he was born with in Ethiopia) and Jessica. He makes her immortal too. It’s a neat book, that I wouldn’t have heard of without Dark Matter.
    • 5/5
      Another vampire story that on the cover is compared to Rice's Vampire Chronicles -- but again, I must disagree. As I've said before, I liked the original Vampire Chronicles, but this one was different. At the beginning of the story, we are introduced to David and Jessica Wolde, who seem to have it all. She is a journalist and her worked is being groomed to win her a Pulitzer Prize. He is a professor and avid connaisseur of music, a love for things beautiful, and is very respected and respectable. They also have a very sweet little girl named Kira. There's just one hitch in this otherwise dreamlike life...David, who after undergoing a strange ritual 400 years earlier in the deserts of Ethiopia, is an immortal. We won't call him vampire, exactly, because he doesn't seem to need to take blood for nourishment (in fact, he seems to be an outstanding cook), but his blood and this ritual made him one of a small select community of brothers. We gather bits and pieces of David's story throughout the novel, in which we learn of his travels from Ethiopia to Europe to America, and the life he had to endure even as he watched his loved ones die. But Jessica knows nothing of his past; she met him when he was her professor at college. One day David is pruning a tree and ends up falling out of it, dislocating his shoulder, rubbing skin off of his body & breaking several ribs. He refuses to have any medical attention, yet manages to heal quite nicely pretty much overnight. Jessica begins to wonder how that could be possible. From that time on, incidents escalate and soon it is Jessica and her daughter Kira who find themselves in danger of being killed. I thought this book was very good. Here's my complaint: sometimes things were a little too contrived, a little too coincidental and I thought the ending was a little sappy and overdramatic. However, all in all it was one of those I couldn't put down until finished. Tanarive Due is a fine author & I cannot wait to start another book by her. Definitely worth a reread at some point in the future. I recommend this one, but if you're looking for the Vampire Lestat, Count Dracula or any number of other vampire literary legends, this book may not make you happy. This is definitely much more sophisticated than Anne Rice's work.