My Soul to Take

By: Tananarive Due

Narrated by: Lizan Mitchell

Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins

Publisher's summary

Essence and New York Times best-selling author Tananarive Due has established herself as a premier figure in paranormal suspense - with champions including horror master Stephen King. My Soul to Take continues the saga of a line of immortals destined to save the world from the apocalypse.

Telepath Fana and the Life Brothers are attempting to prevent the spread of a devastating plague, but their efforts are challenged by an unlikely opponent - Fana’s fiancé, Michel.

©2011 Tananarive Due (P)2012 Recorded Books

Read at your own risk!

I was extremely disappointed by the narration and production of this book in particular. The change in voice and pronunciation of character names from the previous stories took my focus from the story. Also the storyline with Fawna and Michel was too overly dramatic. Neither of them were particularly likable so it was hard to care about what happened to them in the end. Jessica’s character also digressed and became slightly overbearing. This final volume did not live up to the previous editions. This was my second time reading this series. The first time was about 7 years ago and I actually read the books. I remember loving My Soul To Keep and The Living Blood but couldn’t remember the last two. I thought listening might be easier this time. It was, but again, the change in narrator disturbed me. Regardless of that the story just wasn’t powerful enough. Read at your own risk!

Good, but strange ending

If you could sum up My Soul to Take in three words, what would they be?

Almost, but not

What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)

I thought the ending, whatever the authors intentions showed a certain lake of faith in humanity, in God and hope for the future. Despite the blood supposedly coming down from Christ certainly no one in the book seem to favor any of his teaching or traits and don't seem to put any stock in traditional values of good and evil.

You have to read it to understand. Basically in the end we all have to be directed by Big Brother Blood because we are too stupid and immature to handle our own destinies or draw together as a human community.

Also one character gets punished for trying to kill what appears to honestly be a very evil dude and I think anyone of us would agree that the attempt was the right thing to do since the honest goal of said evil dude was mass genocide of the human population of the entire planet.

All in all okay characters, interesting story but the ending left feeling a little alienated towards the messiah figures.

Which scene was your favorite?

John Wrights scenes talking to the recruits for his army and why they were fighting. They felt like the most human figures in the entire book.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

The reunion of Pheonix's family.

Any additional comments?

If their is a fifth book I hope Jesus arrives to give our immortals a smack down and reprimand.

Amazing Story Telling

This series has been one of my favorites! Tanarive Due is a master. I hope this isn't the end.

Beautifully written!! Narration is spot on!!!

I love this series!!! It's one of my absolute favorites. I hope to see these characters again.

My Soul to Take

Very disappointing for the last book in the Black Immortals series!! The narration was horrible!! Now I've heard this narrator in other books, and enjoyed her, but this was not the book for her!! The voices of the Male characters all sounded like they were having issues breathing!! Fawna sounded far too much like a space cadet baby!! The story line definitely deviated to these 2 main character's trying to take a God like stance!! Not appreciated at all! Let's do a fifth to give the long term series readers a better ending!! Give Fawna a sister to set things right, and for pity sakes bring Caldoun out of hiding!!

Awful Narrator, Good Book

I enjoyed all four books but this last one was hard to get through. The narrator did not pronounce the names correctly, and the voice impressions are just BAD and very distracting!! I do not know the process when it comes to making a decision to have someone narrate the books but the author(s) should really take into consideration that consistency means a lot. That is why I left audible the first time due to that issue. Again, overall the series is good.

Mixed Bag

The narrator had a hard time with the names, accents and general tone of the story. It was all too distracting.

Mixed feelings

I liked the story line but of the 3 different narrators, this last one struggled the most. The narration made it difficult to finish and once I did I was glad it was over. I’m sorry.

Love this series

The narrator made this this book hard to follow, her pronunciation of characters names and voices were horrible.

All over the place

I love Tananarive Due, My Soul to Keep was my first introduction to her work and I haven't regretted it. However, this book I feel like there were way too many characters to keep up with and the throwing in of characters from another book that I haven't read yet felt unnecessary. The time frames was confusing. What happened in the 10 years between the proposal and wedding? Why'd they do Johnny like that? Caitlin, the kid with Sickle cell?? I know every book will not wrap things up in a neat little bow, but this was kind of infuriating. If there is a book 5 just please focus it on Fana and Michel.