There’s just something special about the way his words connect to your soul.Genre: Philosophy, Romance, Literature, Spirituality When I say you emerge as a changed person after reading a Paulo Coelho book, I mean it. You are taken on this journey with the narrator as she discovers the value of love in all its forms, and you begin to appreciate love just a little bit more as well. What this book is really about, however, is love.

Everything about Geneva, where she lives, history, her work and everything in between makes the book feel real. Usually when a book does this, it comes across as unfocused, but in this case it’s beautiful. What makes this book most special, however, is how it doesn’t shy away from describing even the narrator’s most trival thoughts. This is perhaps the greatest use of first person narration I’ve come across so far.

The narrator’s dialogues are integrated into her narration, making everything she says feel like a part of her thoughts. The only dialogue comes from everyone who isn’t the narrator. On top of this, the conversations in this book are unorthodox too. It’s little things like this that really puts the reader in the shoes of the narrator. And what’s the name that’s mentioned the most in this book? The man with which she’s having an affair. Everything about the way the book is written shows an understanding of what it is like to be depressed, and amazingly it paints the fact that she is cheating on her husband in a good light. This woman had everything but none of it was giving her satisfaction. This is particularly symbolic to what the theme of the book is. Even her name is only mentioned once, and that is towards the end of the book. What is interesting is that all the people who are essential in her life are given no names in this book: her husband, her children and her boss. It is a scintillating experience that is, quite simply, an account of a few months in this woman’s life. Perhaps most widely known for The Alchemist (the only book I ever read in one sitting and I haven’t reviewed because I do not feel that any words can justify how incredible it is), Coelho writes his sixteenth book with Adultery, which follows a woman in her thirties who is battling depression and having an affair with a high school boyfriend she is reunited with. When it comes to Paulo Coelho, however, you expect to be a changed human being in one way or the other by the time you get to the other end of the book. In a John Green book, you expect some sort of teenage coming-of-age tale.

For Rick Riordan, you expect a mythology class hidden under layers of fun. There are certain expectations a reader has when it comes to authors.

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