Dues ghost summer, the best of the trio, also works as a ya novel. In addition to being about a haunted house, this book covers a wide range of topics like family, friendship, suicide, romantic relationships, divorce, and more. With compelling characters and a sense of impending dread, due weaves together a mystical past with presentday evils. My soul to keep by tananarive due 1997, hardcover for sale. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read the good house. A leading voice in black speculative fiction for more than 20 years, due has won an american book award, an naacp image award, and a british fantasy award, and her writing has been included in bestoftheyear anthologies. If you enjoy anne rice, blade, or buffy, then minion is the novel you have been waiting for.
Mar 08, 2018 the main action of the good house occurs during a time when whites own all the land for miles aroundexcept for the grounds of angie toussaints inheritance, the good house. Octavia butlers fledgling is a vampire book, and a scary one at that. Signed inscription by due to theresa dated 26 may 2001 on the title page. Tananarive due, bestselling author of the good house so fasten your seatbelt and enjoy a ride littered with holy water, vamp ooze, and a layered web of political intrigue ingeniously woven from the mind of banks. Start your scary sojourn by sampling the work of tananarive due, the acclaimed author of such novels as the between, my soul to keep and the living blood uniquely disturbing stories that effortlessly mix the horror, mystery and supernatural genres. Corey himself has a wild streak, stages a robbery and steals his mothers african voodoo ring, an heirloom, for a girlfriendor so he. Jun 12, 2009 bestselling author tananarive dues novels about a colony of immortals have won widespread acclaim, including an american book award for the living blood. The good house audiobook free download and listen by tananarive due. I published a book called wolf girl finds necromance on the heroine is a biracial black and white werewolf caught between a native american skinwalker and a handsome africanamerican necromancer.
Tananarive due, author of the living blood won the american book award and is praised as stephen kings equal by publishers weekly. My soul to keep is already underway as a film, and probably as a series. She won the american book award in 2002 for her novel the living blood. The heroin of this book, angela toussaint, has returned to the home in which she was raised in sacajawea, wa. Tananarive dues the good house presents a fresh take on a classic horror trope. For those who have read my soul to keep and if you havent, run to get it, the living blood begins five years after the death of daviddawit, jessicas husband. Fangoria, if you enjoy anne rice, blade, or buffy, then minion is the novel you have been waiting for. This is a solid haunted house book, and i highly recommend it if you need a good creepy summer read.
First off, i have to say, i have not and probably will not read a book this year that is as gripping and thick and suspenseful and deep as tananarive dues sequel to my soul to keep the living blood. When it comes to horror, in my opinion, its hard to beat a great haunted house tale. When jessica marries david, he is everything she wants in a family man. Buy my soul to keep african immortals new edition by due, tananarive isbn. Tananarive due is a winner of the american book award and a twotime finalist for the bram stoker award. I found myself, once again, utterly engrossed by the heartpounding odyssey of dawit, jessica, and their daughter, fana.
The good house is a novel by american writer tananarive due, published in 2003. The main action of the good house occurs during a time when whites own all the land for miles aroundexcept for the grounds of angie toussaints inheritance, the. And khaldun and the immortals oppose jessicas meddling with immortality. Divorcee angela toussaint moves with her teenaged son corey to washington, where the family has a summer home built in 1907 and once occupied by angelas creole mambo grandmother marie, a suspected witch. Tananarive due is a novelist and a creative writing teacher who has worked as a journalist. Davie stephens, whos determined to become a 12yearold ghost buster, and various family members find themselves haunted. The house angela toussaints late grandmother owned is so beloved that townspeople in sacajawea, washington, call it the good house. As good as any popular horror novel, the good house audiobook has great characters, twisty plot, very high creepy factor, great mythology, and stellar writing.
Racism, survival and the black horror aesthetic, which focuses on the jordan peele film get out. Due teaches a course at ucla called the sunken place. The first novel from the good house author tananarive due, the between, centers on hilton, the survivor of a tragic accident that claimed the life of his grandmother. In this novel, angela moves into her grandmothers home, called the good house. May 04, 2008 the genius of tananarive due is in weaving an imaginative tale so expertly that the reader is convinced she has suspended time and all reason. Oct 24, 2010 the scariest book ive written may be a novel called the good house. Tananarive due is an american book awardwinning, essence bestselling author of blood colony, the living blood, the good house, and joplins ghost.
Stephen king from the awardwinning master of horror and afrofuturism tananarive due comes a modernclassic of dark introspection. Gramma maries wild daughter dominique gave birth to angela but later commits suicide at the kitchen table with an overdose of sominex, as discovered by angela. I published a book called wolf girl finds necromance on the heroine is a biracial black and white werewolf caught between a native american skinwalker and a. Tananarive due s first three novels gained her legions of dedicated fans who recognize a true master of the genre. Also in the supernatural vein is due s 2003 novel the good house. It tells the story of shori, a 53yearold ina, a vampire like creature whose. Its my only book about characters facing a force thats evil through and throughso evil it had to be put to sleep hundreds of years ago, and my characters accidentally woke it up. Clearly due plans a third volume, focused most likely on fana. Blood colony book by tananarive due official publisher. The african immortals series caught my attention a few years ago, and finally, ive gotten around to reading book one of the fourpart series. She is an executive producer on shudders groundbreaking documentary horror noire. Her novels include the my soul to keep series, the between, the good house, and joplins ghost.
In her latest book, the good house, due has written. Now she returns with her best yet a chilling story set in a small town in the pacific northwest. Tananarive due tahnahnahreeve doo is an awardwinning author who teaches black horror and afrofuturism at ucla. Oct 31, 2019 i remember reading this book in the middle of the night and being scared out of my wits when my cat suddenly jumped up on my bed. The story continues in blood colony, as 17yearold immortal fana goes on the run from her own parentsonly to be hunted by a group with ties to the vatican. Due was born in tallahassee, florida, the oldest of three daughters of civil rights activist patricia stephens due and civil rights lawyer john d. The living blood book by tananarive due thriftbooks. Bears favorable comparison to interview with the vampire.
The good house is my second read by tananarive due, and i absolutely love her books. Tananarive due has done it again the good house is a supernatural thriller that captures its reader from the very first line. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Her storytelling is at once intimate and wholly epic. Jul 07, 2009 tananarive due is an american book awardwinning, essence bestselling author of blood colony, the living blood, the good house, and joplins ghost. In the good house, due sets a story of ancient powers and modern retribution in a small pacific northwest town.