Whisper

By: Chang Yu-Ko

Narrated by: Brian Nishii

Victims all describe hearing a voice before they die gruesomely. Sometimes it’s singing an old Taiwanese song, sometimes it’s in Japanese, and sometimes it’s an anguished call for help from a loved one. Can Wu Shih-sheng, a degenerate taxi driver in Taipei, hunt down the source of the voice that killed his wife before he becomes the next victim?

©2018 Chang Yu-ko. Translation © 2011 by Roddy Flagg. Original Complex Chinese edition published by Titan Publishing Co., Ltd (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing

Good Folklore Taoist magic

I loved the narrator, he did a great job with the pronunciation of names and bringing the characters to life. The folklore aspects of the story were pretty interesting, I was caught in it from the beginning. Unfortunately the writing was a bit confusing, the characters changed places to quickly, the story took leaps that were hard to keep up, the end was not much satisfying, it was a good book overall.