The Hundred Secret Senses

By: Amy Tan

Narrated by: Amy Tan

Years after her Chinese half-sister assails her with ghost stories set in the mysterious world of Yin, Olivia — a young woman from San Francisco — finds herself in China. Looking for a way to reconcile her past with dreams for her future, Olivia's American assumptions are shaken by Chinese ghosts, but she also finds reasons to hope.

Read by author Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses unfolds a series of family secrets that question the connections between fate and chance, belief and hope, memory and imagination.

©2006 Amy Tan (P)2006 Phoenix Books, Inc.

Great book. Terrible audio quality

Multiplied times throughout the story the narrator sounds like they are reading under water or with a microphone in their pocket. Super muffled. Really wish they would re-record it. Great story

Storytelling

An awful lot of storytelling within the story, at the expense of action and plot. An interesting mixture of cultures though. Not my favorite Amy Tan.

My Favorite Amy Tan

This was my favorite Amy Tan. She seems to always make her protagonists selfish, but the other characters are delightful. This also had some good Chinese ghosts, which are always fun.

Quan’s character is lovely

Book is well-crafted and imaginative. The characters are well formed and engaging. The story is interesting and the relationships are not syrupy sweet but endearing

I did not anticipate the ending

Lagged in places but overall a good read. The characters were not fully developed but that may have been necessary to build up to the twist at the end.