Tananarive Due mixes nearly unbearable suspense with fantasy and horror in this tightly woven tale.
With deft plotting and an unforgettable climax, this tour de force reminiscent of early Anne Rice will win Due a new legion of fans..
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.
Instead, David vows to invoke a forbidden ritual to Keep Jessica and his daughter with him forever.
Now, his immortal brethren have decided David must return and leave his family in Miami.
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.
Yet she still feels something about him is just out of reach.
When Jessica marries David, he is everything she wants in a family man: brilliant, attentive, ever youthful. -- Stephen King From the award-winning master of horror and Afrofuturism Tananarive Due comes a modern-classic of dark introspection.
I loved this novel.
An eerie epic ...] Bears favorable comparison to Interview with the Vampire .
When people close to her begin to meet violent, mysterious deaths, Jessica\'s husband makes an unimaginable confession: More than 400 years ago he and other members of an Ethiopian sect gave up their humanity for immortality--a secret that he must now protect at any cost.
Tananarive Due mixes nearly unbearable suspense with fantasy and horror in this tightly woven tale
