![]() Her faith is important to her, and definitely impacts how she handles the things she deals with in this story. Jessica is a religious woman, while David has gradually become an atheist. There are some fascinating themes in here. This time, however, he’s determined not to give up his wife and daughter–even if it means killing a few people who could conceivably be a threat to them. ![]() David is deemed to be cleaving too close to humans, thus risking discovery, and the Searchers have come to take him back to Africa. The Searchers are a part of a brotherhood formed of people like David and the apparent first of their kind, who said he was made immortal by Christ’s blood. We learn very early on that David has lived for about 500 years so far, and he’s worried that a group called “the Searchers” has caught up to him and that he’ll have to leave his family–again, because this has happened to him before. Jessica, her husband David, and their daughter Kira just lost their Great Dane, Princess, and it seems to be hitting David particularly hard. ![]() There’s no blood-drinking, but there is an immortality that can be passed on to others through blood. Tananarive Due’s My Soul to Keep (African Immortals series, 1) is almost a vampire book, but not quite. ![]()
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