My Soul to Keep

I've been hearing the name Tananarive Due for several years, but I hadn't given her stuff a shot until this book. Man, have I been missing out. Here's the thing about Tananarive's writing: From the very first chapter until the very end of the book, you sense this marvelous combination of total autho......more

My name is Dah-west. I was born in what is now called Ethiopia nearly five hundred years ago. I am an immortal. There are fifty-eight others like me. Our blood lives forever, and our bodies heal. We do not age. We were not born this way, and our condition is not genetic. We underwent a Ritual. We do......more

The things we do for love, right? Dawit is a five-hundred-year-old immortal who has loved and lost three wives: one in Ethiopia hundreds of years ago, one who was killed in slavery times, and one he was forced to abandon by his brethren in the 1920s. But never had he loved a wife the way Dawit loved......more

Jessica is living a dream life. Her latest investigative piece is getting Pulitzer buzz, her daughter is thriving, her family is healthy, and her husband is perfect in every way. What she doesn't know is that her husband David cannot die. After taking part in a ritual 400+ years ago, even beheading......more

A different take on the immortal story that also felt familiar; I guess immortals mostly have an expected set of difficulties to deal with. I liked the nineties vibe in this story of a woman who finds out she really doesn't know her husband at all. My first book by Tananarive Due, but not my last.......more