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My Soul to Take (African Immortals #4)
by
Tananarive Due (Goodreads Author)
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bestselling and award-winning author Tananarive Due delivers a heart-stopping new novel continuing the story of descendants of an immortal line of people who are the only ones capable of saving the world.Fana, an immortal with tremendous telepathic abilities, is locked in a battle of wills. Her fiancé is Michel. But Johnny Wright, a mortal who is in love with her,...more
Paperback, 432 pages
Published
September 6th 2011
by Washington Square Press
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I have absolutely loved this series, and read all of the FOUR books in just a few weeks (despite them all being 400-500 pages). However, I was not very happy with this last (??) book of the series. I really grew to love the main characters from the first three books (Jessica and David/Dawit) and I did not like them in this book. I found them weak and diminished and nothing at all like they were in the previous books. I also did not like what became of Fana in this book, although I understood the...more
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Carlos Harris has just traveled to Puerto Rico after hearing the news that his mother is dead. When Carlos arrives, he learns that his mother did not just death of nature cause but of something much worse. Bad enough that the government is trying to keep it under wraps. The only thing Carlos knows is that the virus is air borne in nature.
Phoenix Harris is a famous singer and wife to Carlos. Phoenix is approached by a man named John Wright. John’s employer wants Phoenix join them on stopping the...more
Phoenix Harris is a famous singer and wife to Carlos. Phoenix is approached by a man named John Wright. John’s employer wants Phoenix join them on stopping the...more
The story begins with Carlos. His mother went missing in Puerto Rico then he receives a phone call that simply said she was dead. So Carlos goes to Puerto Rico to find out what is going on. While there, he stumbles into a group of people that are trying to hide a serious outbreak, which one of the victims is Carlos’s mother.
Phoenix, Carlos’s wife is a former rock star that is asked to perform a charity concert. Reluctantly agreeing to, while performing she finds that a lump in her breast is gon...more
Phoenix, Carlos’s wife is a former rock star that is asked to perform a charity concert. Reluctantly agreeing to, while performing she finds that a lump in her breast is gon...more
My Soul to Take by Tananarive Due is the fourth book in her immortals series and is set in the year 2016 when governments are striving to keep terrorists at bay and plagues secret to reduce the threat of panic. Glow, a type of blood that is warm to the touch, is being touted as the solution to the pandemic and disease problem, but the United States has banned the drug for its terrorist ties and unknown origins.
Fana, an immortal, and her father, Dawit, hope to help the human race by offering the...more
Fana, an immortal, and her father, Dawit, hope to help the human race by offering the...more
Mar 24, 2012
Erica Smith
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5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Libratrians, book lovers, suspense fiction readers
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addiction-to-fiction
A supernatural union is about to take place.
Many will cheer.
Others will die.
My Soul to Take is the fourth and final(?) book in Tananarive Due’s African Immortal Series. For those who have not read the previous books, please check them out in the order listed below this review.
Fana returns as one about to be betrothed to Michel. Fana has wonderous powers and her blood, Glow, which is being distributed across the nation, is making the government mad for political and economical reasons. Michel, wh...more
Many will cheer.
Others will die.
My Soul to Take is the fourth and final(?) book in Tananarive Due’s African Immortal Series. For those who have not read the previous books, please check them out in the order listed below this review.
Fana returns as one about to be betrothed to Michel. Fana has wonderous powers and her blood, Glow, which is being distributed across the nation, is making the government mad for political and economical reasons. Michel, wh...more
I am so glad that I read the previous novels that lead into this one. It has made reading this book so much more fulfilling.
I want to say I love the way this book twisted my expectations. I don't particularly agree with the idea of the chosen ones. But if that's what we're left with, then I think Due has given us the best possible outcome. Uncertainty, discussion and tiny steps along the way are what will make the difference.
If we are stuck with only heroes to save us, then let the heroes be as...more
I want to say I love the way this book twisted my expectations. I don't particularly agree with the idea of the chosen ones. But if that's what we're left with, then I think Due has given us the best possible outcome. Uncertainty, discussion and tiny steps along the way are what will make the difference.
If we are stuck with only heroes to save us, then let the heroes be as...more
Finally...I'm done reading My Soul to Take. This time it took me almost a week to read this book. The first two books in the series (My Soul to Keep, The Living Blood) I pulled all nighters to read because they were just that compelling. The third book...Blood Colony not so much and My Soul to Take...well I'm just happy I finished it. The more I read the more I realize I'm just not a series book reader...especially those that span almost 15 years (My Soul to Keep came out in 1997); just too much...more
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My Soul to Take by Tananarive Due is the fourth, and perhaps, final installment of her African Immortals series. I have truly enjoyed this series, and as I anticipated the release of My Soul to Take I read several of her other novels (see my reviews).
The African Immortals Series, is a mixture of Sci-Fi and the paranormal, mixed with religious undertones that mix biblical stories with immortal beings in a good vs. evil battle. The series main character is Fana, whom we were first introduced to a...more
The African Immortals Series, is a mixture of Sci-Fi and the paranormal, mixed with religious undertones that mix biblical stories with immortal beings in a good vs. evil battle. The series main character is Fana, whom we were first introduced to a...more
On Tananarive Due
Before I read the African Immortals series, I picked up The Good House by an author I had never read or heard of before, Tananarive Due. I've read two of Octavia Butler's books and love her works, so when I saw something in my reading that Tananarive Due dedicated her books to Butler, I was eager to give it a try. I really LOVED The Good House and went straight to My Soul to Keep.
Due is definitely one of my new favorite authors. The thing that I like the best is her way of creat...more
Before I read the African Immortals series, I picked up The Good House by an author I had never read or heard of before, Tananarive Due. I've read two of Octavia Butler's books and love her works, so when I saw something in my reading that Tananarive Due dedicated her books to Butler, I was eager to give it a try. I really LOVED The Good House and went straight to My Soul to Keep.
Due is definitely one of my new favorite authors. The thing that I like the best is her way of creat...more
The fourth book in Tananarive Due's African Immortals series takes us to the next generation of The Blood. Fana is the first child born to the blood of the Lalibela Colony of Immortals and must deal with the prophecy that she must join with another Blood Born of the Sanctus Cruor sect. The Sanctus Cruor sect had claimed the Blood was theirs alone.
I have read the other books in the series, and see in this one the development and maturing of Fana's parents, Jessica and Dawit, their love for her an...more
I have read the other books in the series, and see in this one the development and maturing of Fana's parents, Jessica and Dawit, their love for her an...more
Fana Wolde has come to a crossroads. As an immortal who possesses healing blood and telepathic powers, she must decide whether she wants to continue helping the world or fulfilling a promise to her prophesied soulmate and fiance, Michel. Healing is not a priority for Michel, who would rather use his gifts to rid the world of those he doesn't feel worthy. Complicating matters further is mortal Johnny Wright, Fana's friend and comrade in healing, who is hopelessly in love with her and vehemently o...more
this book was brillant. it is all about perspective. truth. faith. courage. compassion. love. redemption. healing. what can i say? i am elated to know that fana, the colony, and her families (old and new) found light in the mdist of shadows. the juicy details were delicious. the compromises are intense. johnny. alex. phoenix. dawit.fana. michel. and every one whose left on earth after the cleansing.....i feel my synapses firing about all the potential. the promise. the hope. the endless possibil...more
So this book was amazing, totally didn't end the way i wanted it to, but it left open for another book maybe? please? And i'm definitely going to buy the three books that came before it, and read those. I'm glad it was easier for me to understand even though i haven't read the other three books. I would totally recommend it to anyone who loves supernatural reads.
Apr 08, 2013
Vernetta
marked it as to-read
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No one a friend recommeded the first book and I am Just finishing the series
I have enjoyed the series but this book was difficult to follow and stay with. I started the book twice so that i could refresh and finish the book. Not one of her best books.
I usually don’t read science-fiction, but I really enjoyed this story. This is the first and only book in the series that I’ve read but now I’m obsessed and I have to read everything else. The only reason I didn't give it a 5 is because I felt compelled to do a little background research on the characters and I don't like my novels to have homework.
I just couldn't get as vested into this story as I wanted--. I may try to read it again, after reading the other books in closer succession--
THIS SERIES WAS FREAKIN WONDERFUL !
I wish some production company would wake up and smell the millions and put this on film.. maybe if it were made into a comic book Marvel could get outta remake mode..
I wish some production company would wake up and smell the millions and put this on film.. maybe if it were made into a comic book Marvel could get outta remake mode..
I enjoyed the multiple perspectives this series was told from; it provided a different way to look at all that was going on and it was not confusing because they meshed well. The storyline was intriguing and this book proved to be a page turner. The ending was not what I expected, but it leaves room for another book in the series.
You have to enjoy her writing to follow read all of her books.
Good reading, could barely put the book down.
This series takes my breath away...
Loved how this series ended!!
Wonderful! Weaves together the major players from The Living Blood series and the major players from Joplin's Ghost.
Sep 03, 2012
Tiaret
added it
Loved it!
Tananarive Due (along w/ Octavia Butler) successfully makes me enjoy a genre (sci-fi) I never thought I could. This African Immortal series is edge-of-your-seat good!
Hoping the love story of Fana & Michel will continue and hopefully Johnny added in for good measure!!
I loveed this series of books. This last book in the series was a nice way to end the story. Parts of it were bit to Sci-fi for my taste and hard to follow but still a very nice read!
Tananarive does what she does best...weaves a story. A masterful tale that keeps the reader engrossed from start to finish. Even though I missed Blood Colony, this was easy to follow and so well written, I am going back to read Blood Colony and may just start from the beginning of the series.
Thank you for putting a beautiful end (maybe) to a beautiful tale.
Thank you for putting a beautiful end (maybe) to a beautiful tale.
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Tananarive Due surpassed herself. Love the description of true intimacy as Fanatic and Michel merge..The ultimate coupling.KUDOs to Ms Due.
If you don't know Tananarive Due, you should get to know her....
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Tananarive Due is a novelist and a creative writing teacher who has worked as a journalist. She won the American Book Award in 2002 for her novel The Living Blood.
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