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My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due

2 reviews

f18's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

As an atheist I distinguish between fiction with Christian characters (usually fine) and Christian fiction (avoid like the plague). This is what I would call a Christian fiction

vampire

novel, and it was really good! I wish more Christian books were this thoughtful about how they integrate religion (and yes, this has almost exclusively been an issue with Christian-focused lit and not other religions).

The faith of the main character was not only forefront but integral and most importantly it tied into the plot in ways that made sense. The characters felt like real people,

well, except for the immortals-- for good reason!

I may not have made the same choice as Jessica at the end of the book, but I understood her. 

By the way, I've seen this listed as a paranormal romance (I actually picked it off my tbr because my library had it under romance + horror) and it is not that at all imo. More of a thriller.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Animal death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Child death, Death, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Medical content, Sexual content, and Slavery

Minor: Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, and Torture

description of lynching,

bury your gays... well, gay, but I think I was so relieved nothing bad about him was said by the Christian mc that I didn't even notice my most hated trope until the book was over

, re: racism-

haunted burial ground trope

, and re: drugs-

nonconsensual drug use

queerbooklover03's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

A very interesting concept with some mostly well fleshed out characters and backstories, but the more time I spent in Dawit's head the less I liked him and thus, the sooner I wanted to finish the book. So I ended up pushing the last 10-20 percent of the novel as a quickly as possible to be done with it and done with Dawit. I found very well wrotten, but very frustrating and controlling, quite the opposite of amyone I would want to be with.
I did not like racism of "Night Song" and how they talked about her.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Murder, Self harm, Child death, and Slavery

Moderate: Animal death, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Body horror, Gun violence, and Blood

Minor: Sexual assault, Death of parent, Vomit, Rape, Toxic relationship, and Emotional abuse