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Summary: One of the best...
Review: Ms. Due, Ms. Due, Ms. Due... This is a great work of art. A great tale that dates back to biblical times and brings us up to the present. I can't wait for the sequel.
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Summary: Thrilling
Review: Due's second novel was better than the her first, and her first was pretty good. I felt for all of the charachters especially Dawit. Here was a man committing murder, but you just couldn't hate him. I would recommend this novel to all.
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Summary: a mediocre tale that doesn't live up to it's true potential.
Review: This was a quick read for me, but it just didn't leave me thinking afterwards. It is a great concept, immortals living among us, but I think that the author could have done a lot more with it.
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Summary: Captivating...
Review: I really enjoyed reading "My Soul To Keep." The male protagonist, with his many different dimensions kept my interest as well as the travel back and forth through time and civilizations. I anxiously read through the novel to find out what would happen next. I was not dissappointed. The theme was scary but also romantic and believable.
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Summary: A Thrilling Seduction
Review: My Soul To Keep kept me on the edge of my seat. With each page I turned, my heart thumped loudly, and beads of sweat perched above my upper lip. The novel is a thriller that seduces you and lulls you into the fantasy that Ms. Due concocts. Dewit and Jessica are soulmates, lovers from different realms of the heart and different aspects of the mind. Dewit is an immortal in love with a mortal and Jessica is the recipient of Dewit's lurid love. Yet this love that connects Dewit & Jessica leads them on a journey of danger which threatens to rupture their hearts, sever their souls, and send them spiraling to hell. The intermingling of love and mystery in My Soul to Keep is spellbinding. While reading this novel, you'll find yourself cheering, giving advice to the characters, and being seduced into their tepid world.
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Summary: Pretty good, actually
Review: Side note: having more than three syllables in one's first name should be illegal, especially if two of those syllables are close to identical. I've been walking around calling this woman "Tanarive Due" for years. Oops. My Soul to Keep, whatever else it does, does not suffer from sophomore-effort slump. If anything, this is better then The Between, her debut, in that her plot is tighter, easier to follow, and more flowing. The Between suffered from an attempt to keep what was going on mysterious; no such problem here. We know from the beginning (well, unless we're REALLY thickheaded) who killed Rosalie Tillis Banks, and why. The story centers on Jessica Wolde, an investigative reporter, her husband David, and their daughter Kira. We open with the death of Miz Banks, and in the next scene, the death of Princess, the Wolde's great dane. These two events, and those that follow them, lead the Woldes (Jessica, a human, and David, an immortal-- but his wife doesn't know it) down a path to forbidden knowledge and the existential crises that come from sharing said forbidden knowledge. Despite the fact that, put as above, it sounds thoroughly silly, My Soul to Keep really isn't all that bad a book. Due is good at giving us easy-to-follow and consistent characters, even when they're in the midst of figuring out who they really are (which is usually an excuse for an author to make a character behave inconsistently). She gives us a straightforward and easy-to-follow plot, though at times it seems the plot is nothing more than a framework upon which to draw David's character (which is not necessarily a bad thing). And she gives us just enough jolts in just enough unfamiliar areas that we're not exactly sure what's going to happen. So while the prevailing mystery is easy enough to solve, and many of the other little obvious mysteries that pop up are just as easy, we're distracted from the real job of figuring out the little details, and those are what shift underneath the reader and keep the book interesting. It's a fun little read, quick and easy, worth the couple of days it will take you to get through it.
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Summary: The Best Book!
Review: I enjoyed My Soul to Keep so much that I found myself planning my schedule around when I could read it! The science fiction details were explained so carefully and methodically that I was never lost in it, and I understood every step of the way. I know we've all heard this expression before, but I literally couldn't put it down! If I could give it 6 stars instead of 5, I would!
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Summary: Fantastic read
Review: This is my first novel by Ms. Due and is most certainly not my last. Due's writing is melodic and haunting. I found the passages depicting an on-the-surface peaceful and joyful life torn apart by fantastic circumstances to be gut-wrenching. The novel addresses issues of immortality, faith, parenting, inner strength. It is suspenseful and frightening. I had to keep reading to find out how Jessica deals with the frightening truth about her husband Dawit. Will she keep their daughter, Kira, safe? The best part about this novel: I actually cared what happened to the characters. This one is a great read for anyone who appreciates fine writing.
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Summary: My Soul to Keep
Review: This was a selection by our Book Club for the month of Feb, 2000. When I originally bought the book I thought it was a Steven King type of book, and was reluctant to read it. That quickly changed the book was excellent and I couldn't put it down. I read the book in 18 hours. Everyone in our Book Club enjoyed the book. We had one of the liveliest discussions ever. The only part that I could criticize was the ending. It just didn't go with the rest of the book. It left me hanging. This book was easy reading, I would suggest it to all for reading.
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Summary: A Modern Masterpiece!
Review: It is beyond me why this book has not been made into a film! It has compassionate characters, a swiftly moving and involved plot, realistic settings, romance and intrigue spanning centuries,and mysticism coupled with religious overtures. And, for a change the characters are Black. Whoops! I forgot! That's why Hollywood hasn't called. Well, like Dr. King, I can only dream!
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