And then comforting her when she’s crushed that her friend and colleague was brutally murdered.ĭavid eventually does decide to tell Jessica the truth (in the most traumatic way possible), and there’s a section in the middle where the tone is just strange. Including KILLING HER PARTNER AT WORK because Peter and Jessica are working on a news story that could possibly discover that he KILLED HIS ELDERLY DAUGHTER. He’s very controlling, treats Jessica like a child, and makes sweeping decisions about what he thinks is best. Centuries of basically being a different species has made it really hard for him to think about anybody but himself. With this version of family, he’s actually invested, and starts thinking about breaking the Covenant (keeping the immortality a secret) and telling Jessica the truth, and possibly seeing if he could pass on the Living Blood and making her immortal as well, to keep his family together forever.Īll that sounds good, EXCEPT. Currently, he’s married to a reporter named Jessica, with a five-year-old daughter named Kira. He’s lived multiple lifetimes, married, fathered children, learned different careers and languages. He can die, but he comes back the next morning. He was made immortal by Khaldun hundreds of years ago in what would become Ethiopia. This one is basically an allegory about an abusive marriage, but it went to some interesting places. Ignore Punchi’s yawn – this was not a boring book!
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