Then, after a strong start and a crazy middle came a disappointing ending. He clearly doesn’t understand how we think. It almost made me angry at Paulo Coelho for attempting to write from a woman’s perspective. Suddenly, nothing that the protagonist was feeling or thinking felt real. Unfortunately, what happened next was that things went south.įirst of all, the story itself went from ‘huh, I can see this happening’ to ‘what the heck is going on.’ The moment I stopped loving it, I started to hate everything about it. I couldn’t stop flipping through the pages, wanting to know what would happen next. It was amazing and I found it super relatable.

I got really into the book from the beginning. So what could he do with a story that’s much more relatable and written from a married woman’s perspective? Reality I mean, this author managed to get me excited to read about a boy living in the desert. It was hard not to have high expectations after reading The Alchemist. Even despite reading many reviews that agreed with The Independent, describing the book as “shallow and full of cliché with sex that is aggressive and gratuitous.” As she rediscovers the passion missing from her life, she will face a life-altering choice.” Amazon Expectations All that changes when she encounters a successful politician who had, years earlier, been her high-school boyfriend. Yet what she feels is an enormous sense of dissatisfaction. In everybody’s eyes, she has a perfect life: happy marriage, children, and a career. “Linda, in her thirties, begins to question the routine and predictability of her days. Classics meet 50 Shades of Grey? How could anyone resist? But I was definitely intrigued when I heard about Adultery. I’m embarrassed to say that I have not read his other books yet. He is the author of one of the best known books in the world, The Alchemist. The name Paulo Coelho might ring a bell, and it should.

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