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    My Soul to Keep
    My Soul to Keep
    My Soul to Keep
    Audiobook18 hours

    My Soul to Keep

    Written by Tananarive Due

    Narrated by Peter Francis James

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    The award-winning master of horror, acclaimed author, screenwriter, and scholar Tananarive Due’s classic African Immortals series starts with an electrifying piece of dark fantasy, My Soul to Keep.

    When Jessica marries David, he is everything she wants in a family man: brilliant, attentive, ever youthful. Yet she still feels something about him is just out of reach. Soon, as people close to Jessica begin to meet violent, mysterious deaths, David makes an unimaginable confession: More than 400 years ago, he and other members of an Ethiopian sect traded their humanity so they would never die, a secret he must protect at any cost. Now, his immortal brethren have decided David must return and leave his family in Miami. Instead, David vows to invoke a forbidden ritual to keep Jessica and his daughter with him forever.

    Harrowing, engrossing and skillfully rendered, My Soul to Keep traps Jessica between the desperation of immortals who want to rob her of her life and a husband who wants to rob her of her soul. With deft plotting and an unforgettable climax, this tour de force that Stephen King called "an eerie epic" is sure to win Due a legion of new fans.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateFeb 18, 2020
    ISBN9781980094418
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    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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    • 4/5
      Great story BUT The narrator left much to be desired. He was so dry and monotone. But that's not the worse part...the worse part is I could literally hear him swallow spit every few sentences. It was a bit off-putting. But I did enjoy the story even though the narrator had an extremely watery mouth ?

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    • 4/5
      Why on earth is this book narrated by a white man? I can not get past it.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      Man, I hated every character. Haha, I had to really think on that to be sure I wasn't just being shitty but no, they're just... nope. Jessica is annoying and self centered and David has multiple personalities by choice (spoiler: they're all awful). Her sister, her colleague? Lol, c'mon man. The premise is amazing! But sheesh, I really did not like any of the characters! This might be a first for me. The writing is great, I loved The Good House by Ms. Due along with her short stories, so she's amazing on a whole so I don't know why I couldn't connect with these people.

      1 person found this helpful