The Living Blood

De: Tananarive Due

Narrado por: Peter Francis James

This sequel to My Soul to Keep, from best-selling author and two-time Bram Stoker Award finalist Tananarive Due, is a breathtaking supernatural thriller.

After the disappearance of her immortal husband, David, Jessica Jacobs-Wolde must come to terms with the healing blood David gave to her and their daughter, Fana. As Fana’s powers grow, mother and daughter are swept into an epic battle to determine the fate of humankind.

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long but well developed

took a bit to get engaged in the story, but ultimately love this author and the details about characters

Great book BY a GREAT writer

The narration needs to be REDONE. I can hear this guys EVERY SWALLOW and tongue movements...it's so distracting and annoying. And when you think there is no such thing as swallowing or tongue sounds don't be fooled. You will hear it here in THIS VERY NARRATION. He is well read. It is just the audio that needs to be redone. Please, please 🙏 TRY. BEST SERIES EVER, so far. Jessica is annoying and needs to stop being so weak, wake the hell up, and LEARN & ABSORB. Stop letting thing happen to her & daughter. STOP BEING A DAMSEL & BE THE WARRIOR.

Awesome listening!

I'm really loving listening to the stories this time around. I read them the first time, years ago, this time in listening.

A great continuance

The series keeps improving. I enjoy the authors use of imagery and her story telling! I enjoyed the narrator’s use of tone and delivery to give more life to the different characters of the book. I do understand how some can be distracted by the narrator’s pauses yet the story wrapped me enough to drown those pauses out. This is a great series and I hope they release the audio version for the first book in the series as I tell more people about it!

Can’t stop listening

Due’s stories are captivating. I’m about to start book 3 of this collection and started book one yesterday morning,

The African Immortals Series

Any additional comments?

On Tananarive DueBefore 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 creating central characters that are truly neither good nor bad. The bad guys have great traits and loyalties and the good guys do some really, really bad stuff.On the African Immortals SeriesShe's done an outstanding job at world building in the African Immortals. In this series, she's built some really complex discrimination and prejudices with the Immortals (who are mostly African and Middle Eastern) towards the mortals, calling them monkeys. I find myself stopping to think about how the immortals have lived so many lifetimes, knowing that the mortals they live with will die sooner or later, and consequently devaluing the mortals' lives significantly. They're going to die anyway, right? So if I kill a few, no big deal... And you find yourself reading along and really wanting to love Dawit, despite the fact that he's a cold killer just as an example. Due has such a wonderful opportunity to delve into some of the morality around these prejudices, flip flopping who has the power...and she uses the opportunity well.On My Soul to TakeI started this book apprehensively. The paperback I read wasn't too thick and I was sure that meant I was going to be disappointed at it ending too soon. It's not a cliffhanger ending and I really hope there's more to come, but if there's not, the story has been well told. Without including spoilers, I'll just say that every single character stumbles at some point in the book. Even the immortals, as close to gods as they are, are very human and fallible. They make tragic mistakes and some of them cause a great deal of pain for and disappointment by their loved ones.The other part of this book that I loved was how Tananarive Due describes the relationship and pairing of Fana and Michel.

Can't say enough good things about this book!

Utterly amazing! This author is brilliant. I'm new to this author but she is so underrated!!! I couldn't stop listening to this book! It's worth the price and you won't be disappointed. The narrator is perfect, the plot is superb. I am a Dean Koontz, Stephen King fan. But Tananarive Due's books surpass their best works! Please don't stop writing Ms. Due!!!!

Excellent journey! Hated to have to stop listening

Enjoyed book tremendously. Story kept me so interested I'd lose track of time. The narrator's voice was perfect for telling thd story. Looking forward to book 3.

Excellent and Exciting story

What a wonderful and exciting story! I’m ready for the next one! Highly recommended for YA and adults

As good as the first

I really enjoyed this book. Every time I stopped listening, I could hardly wait to start the book again. This is a perfect follow up to My Soul to Keep. I hated for the story to end.