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    Blood Colony
    Blood Colony
    Blood Colony
    Audiobook19 hours

    Blood Colony

    Written by Tananarive Due

    Narrated by Patricia R. Floyd

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    About this audiobook

    Acclaimed for her novels ranging from supernatural thrillers to historical fiction, award-winning author Tananarive Due imagines the story of an ancient group of immortals—a hidden African clan that has survived for more than a thousand years—facing one of the most challenging issues of our time: a devastating pandemic.

    In this sequel to her Essence bestsellers, The Living Blood and My Soul to Keep, fan-favorite Tananarive Due introduces readers to a new drug: Glow. Said to heal almost any illness, Glow gets its power from the blood of immortals, and it’s up to the Blood Colony, a small but powerful group of immortals, to keep the supplies coming so that AIDS and other diseases will be wiped out.

    Meet Fana Wolde, seventeen years old, the only immortal born with the Living Blood. She can read minds and her injuries heal immediately. When her best friend, a mortal, is imprisoned by Fana’s family, Fana helps her escape and together they run away from Fana’s protected home in Washington State to join the Underground Railroad of Glow peddlers. But Fana has more than her parents to worry about: Glow peddlers are being murdered by a violent, hundred-year-old sect with ties to the Vatican. Now, when Fana is most vulnerable, she is being hunted to fulfill an ancient blood prophecy that could lead to countless deaths.

    While her people search for Fana and race to unravel the unknown sect’s mysterious origins, Fana must learn to confront the deadly forces—or she and everyone she loves will die.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJun 12, 2009
    ISBN9781440723100
    Blood Colony
    Author

    Tananarive Due

    Tananarive Due is an American Book Award and NAACP Image Award­–winning author, who was an executive producer on Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror for Shudder and teaches Afrofuturism and Black Horror at UCLA. She and her husband, science fiction author Steven Barnes, cowrote the graphic novel The Keeper and an episode for Season 2 of The Twilight Zone for Paramount Plus and Monkeypaw Productions. Due is the author of several novels and two short story collections, Ghost Summer: Stories and The Wishing Pool and Other Stories. She is also coauthor of a civil rights memoir, Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights (with her late mother, Patricia Stephens Due). Learn more at TananariveDue.com. 

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    • 5/5
      This series keeps getting better each book. Bring on the next one
    • 5/5
      AMAZING AS USUAL!!!!
      Breathtaking
      Speechless
      Thought provoking
      Cliffhanger EXTRAORDINAIRE
      Brilliant
    • 1/5
      I'll have to read it instead of listening, like I love to do. The person that's reading this novel had THE MOST IRRITATING VOICE EVER!!!! She does not read the words, she sings them, HORRIBLY!!! There's no way I can listen to her voice for nineteen hours, HECKS NO!!
    • 5/5
      This was an excellent book. I loved it! Ms Due keeps her readers attention, I couldn’t wait for the next chapter.
    • 3/5
      This was pretty good. God enough that I would read the sequel, but not good enough to buy the sequel.
    • 3/5
      This was pretty good. God enough that I would read the sequel, but not good enough to buy the sequel.
    • 4/5
      It started slow but finished well. It's not a typical "vampire" novel although that's how I've seen it categorized. Immortals live in seclusion with some humans who have varying degrees of knowledge about the abilities of the immortals. All want (to varying degrees) to share the immortals' "living blood" to cure/heal humans of various afflictions so they do it carefully. On the street, it's known as glow and the government calls it a biological threat. Fana, the main character is the child of an immortal and a human and is the first child born with the living blood and is worshiped by many of the other immortals. She doesn't know her own power. The antagonists are also immortal, but, of course, want to use their power for evil - ha, ha. A male child was born with the living blood and prophecy declares that he and Fana will marry and save the world or something like that. Only giving this 3 stars because it took so long to catch my attention and it was fairly predictable.If you want to read a really incredible novel by Tananarive Due, check out Joplin's Ghost. 5 stars for that one!