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El Valle Del Asombro (2013)

by Amy Tan(Favorite Author)

3.53 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Planeta

review 1: I struggled with whether I liked this book. I disliked the main character (with her inability to forgive her mother even when she went through the same thing), hated the nonstop details about sexual exploits in and out of the courtesan life and wished I could have edited it down a hundred pages or so. But I kept going because I wanted to know the fate of these characters, even if I didn't care for them. Amy Tan is a great writer and the fascinating world she weaves with unexpected twists is really the book's only redeeming quality.
review 2: Honestly, I should have never even picked up this book, but there was the author's name staring me in the face at the local library. "Amy Tan has a new book?" I cooed with surprise. I haven't read anything of hers in soooo... more long. Oh how I adored the Joy Luck Club and the Kitchen God's Wife. "The Valley of Amazement"...what a cool title. I won't even bother to read what this book is about. I trust Amy Tan to provide a sweeping historical saga about family, love, betrayal, loss, and perseverance. I was excited! Until I read the first chapter which introduces the main character, Violet, a young girl brought up by her hard-nosed mother in a courtesan house. You know that feeling you get when you're on an amusement park ride you have no business being on? You sit in the cart with excitement until the tram starts ratcheting up that steep, steep hill. A lump forms in your throat because you know what's coming and then at the peak of the track, you see your fate. If only you could stop the ride!!Thankfully, you can stop an Amy Tan novel any time you want and that is exactly what I did after Violet got sold to a courtesan house at age 14. I saw what was coming. A cursory flip through a few chapters confirmed my suspicions.Sorry, but I don't find stories about pubescent girls being sexually abused by old men the least bit intriguing. Goodbye Valley of Amazement!! less

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