Adultery

I just finished reading “Adultery” by Paulo Coelho. Honestly, I can't believe this is written by the same man who wrote one of my favorite novels. Utterly shocking and incredibly disappointing. I read the entire book, because I was waiting for it to get better, but it never happened.

In this story, Coelho shows the monster, that resides in us to come up for revenge. Through the life of the main character, feelings of dissatisfaction and inadequacy come to surface... if her life is so perfect, surrounded by people she love and love her, has the perfect husband and children and successful in her work... why is she so unhappy? Because, deep down, she felt there must be something else to all that sense of the perfect life she was living... Letting the monster inside her to come out, is something forbidden, horrible, and dirty. But through the monster, she returns back from the forbidden adventure as a stronger woman, a better person, a renewed soul.

From my point of view, I felt the plot is very poor. However whats good about it is the wisdoms and the philosophy that you will stumble into it through and by end of the book, might be interesting sometimes and makes you think a bit. The last pages talked more about true love than I think many people every get to fully experience.

The title doesn't do the novel justice. It's about so much more than adultery. The adultery is just the result of what this woman is going through and the novel is about so much more than that.

To conclude; Clichés, more soul-searching, unrealistic speeches between husband and wife, nothing really much happens. It’s a story of an existential crisis peppered with porn and religious preaching and ending with a trite unexpected conclusion. Not what I expected from Coelho.

But see what you think. Just don't expect the “Alchemist”.