Honestly, I couldn’t even tell how it was any different from other pretentious book on spirituality available on the market today. I continued hoping for a satisfactory ending, only to be disappointed again.

By the time I’d reached the middle, I was already regretting my decision to read it in the first place. I admit that this was rewarding at times, but after a while it got rather frustrating. The book pretended to be an easy read, but as I read along, I felt as though there was something between the lines that I had missed, which meant I was reading the same thing over and over again. The biggest problem I had while reading the book was with its deceptive simplicity. If any of it sounded interesting, my apologies, but I found the book anything but. However, it brings even more dilemma into her life already tangled between her spiritual and mundane selves. As the plot progresses, she learns the aspired art of recognizing one’s soulmate(s). She is then led to Wicca, an equally powerful witch with whom she learns the ‘tradition of the moon’ and ‘to dance to the music of the world’. Her quest brings her to the Magus, a mysterious man living in the forest who introduces her to the ‘tradition of the sun’.

The book follows the spiritual journey of ‘Brida’, a young and beautiful Irish girl who seeks to explore herself through magic and witchcraft. However, with each paragraph decipherable into a whole chapter of its own, complete comprehension of the book’s essence is a feat almost impossible to achieve. Not contrary to his other works, the book does offer a unique plot and an intriguing set of characters. After reading Paulo Coelho’s ‘Brida’, I was left feeling utterly consfused and frustrated.

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