I’m giving this book five stars because I definitely thought it was amazing. BUT . like every other Coelho book I’ve read, it let me down in the end.
How can he articulate so many nuggets of wisdom, often through characters the writing of which expresses the irony and profundity of their insights, and yet packaged in stories with such cliche outcomes?!
So many of his books explore the ephermerality of love, the moment, the permanence of change, the fleetingness of forever. and yet, his characters always seem to end up living "happily ever after."