Since then, he’s been cast into slavery and transported to America, freed himself, and made a new life. Centuries ago, David abandoned the vampire order home in Ethiopia. Courtesy of his longevity, most of the women he’s loved in the past are long dead, though he hasn’t forgotten them and has barely changed since. This includes sneaking over to the nursing home where his other daughter is drawing her last breath, decades after she last saw him, to be with her at the end. It’s a familiar idea, but David has kept from his wife that he’s a vampire-so, ‘older man’ doesn’t even begin to cover it.ĭavid’s work provides an opportunity to pursue his second life. Jessica was bowled over by the sophisticated man who seemed to know everything. They met when he was her Spanish tutor at university. Jessica is a journalist in Florida keen to advance her career, raise her daughter Kira, and maintain her marriage to David not an easy balance to strike, especially when David’s behaviour becomes increasingly challenging and concerning. In My Soul to Keep, Bram Stoker Award finalist and Miami Herald columnist Tananarive Due draws upon her Ethiopian heritage to craft vivid vampire characters within this new tradition. 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.Ī most welcome development in the vampire subgenre-the increase in the number of writers of colour. 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. Synopsis: When Jessica marries David, he is everything she wants in a family man: brilliant, attentive, ever youthful.
0 kommentar(er)
