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kmlanahan 's review for:
The Witch of Portobello
by Paulo Coelho
I picked this up from the library because I needed something to keep me from listening to news.
It's a little new age-y, a little cult-y. A woman on a spiritual journey gains a cult following and disappears. The story is told through interviews with people that knew her.
The story held my interest, sorta, for about 2/3s of the book, while we got the backstory of Athena and her spiritual journey. Then it picked up the pace as she became a guru with a following and things fall apart.
I may have enjoyed this more with a different reader. Rita Wolf did not do a particularly good job of keeping the voices distinct, and several times I simply could not tell who was speaking. Her accents were odd, and everyone that wasn't English was indeterminately "foreign" but not enough to give any authenticity to the characters.
So, an interesting premise, perhaps poorly executed in audio. If you like new-agey stuff, you may like this.
It's a little new age-y, a little cult-y. A woman on a spiritual journey gains a cult following and disappears. The story is told through interviews with people that knew her.
The story held my interest, sorta, for about 2/3s of the book, while we got the backstory of Athena and her spiritual journey. Then it picked up the pace as she became a guru with a following and things fall apart.
I may have enjoyed this more with a different reader. Rita Wolf did not do a particularly good job of keeping the voices distinct, and several times I simply could not tell who was speaking. Her accents were odd, and everyone that wasn't English was indeterminately "foreign" but not enough to give any authenticity to the characters.
So, an interesting premise, perhaps poorly executed in audio. If you like new-agey stuff, you may like this.