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My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due

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This one is basically an allegory about an abusive marriage, but it went to some interesting places. Dawit/David is immortal. He was made immortal by Khaldun hundreds of years ago in what would become Ethiopia. He can be hurt, but he heals. He can die, but he comes back the next morning. He’s lived multiple lifetimes, married, fathered children, learned different careers and languages. Currently, he’s married to a reporter named Jessica, with a five-year-old daughter named Kira. With this version of family, he’s actually […]

Blood Colony – Tananarive Due (2008)

Blood Colony by Tananarive Due

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As with the third book of almost any series, it’s hard to write about this one without getting into the plot. One thing that happened almost immediately in the transition between the first and second book, and now the second and third book is that the world has been allowed to move forward without us. This is something that takes patience as a writer, and as a reader. We’re given plenty of information to catch us back up, but we’re also treated with respect. So […]

The Living Blood – Tananarrive Due (2002)

The Living Blood by Tananarive Due

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Book one of this series spent a lot of time in split narratives (and narrative perspectives), mostly through dramatic irony and flashback. We were getting both Jessica and David, David knowing everything about Jessica, and Jessica knowing almost nothing about David. We also got a lot about David’s past through flashback. For this novel, a few years past the first, we have a much wider range of characters, landscapes and even mini-genre styles. At times this still reads like an Anne Rice vampire novel, but […]

My Soul to Keep – Tananarive Due (1997)

My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due

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This is one of those books that’s sort of always been around in my reading consciousness. It came out when I was in high school, and being a big Stephen King fan, and being new to figuring out what books to read on my own, it came across my radar and has stuck with me sense. I’m finally reading it, after reading a different Due book a year or so ago, and it’s actually a lot different than I thought. I had it in my […]

Blair Underwood Presents….Tennyson Hardwick!

Casanegra by Blair Underwood, Steven Barnes, Tananarive Due

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Black writers are woefully underrepresented in my Goodreads lists, and so I’m trying to add more African American authors to my regular readings, as well as black authors from around the world. My local librarians mentioned to me that Steven Barnes is a great sci-fi writer. When I was browsing his books I found out that he and his spouse Ms. Due have worked with actor Blair Underwood on this hard-boiled mystery/thriller series around a character called Tennyson Hardwick. Ten is the son of a […]



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