Book Review

Tittle of the Novel	BRIDA
Introduction	Brida is one of the Paulo Coelho's work after The Alchemist, The Pilgrimage, The Valkyries, The Fifth Mountain, Warrior of the Light, Eleven Minutes, etc. This enthralling novel incorporates themes that fans of Paulo Coelho will recognize and treasure. It is a tale of love, passion, mystery, and spirituality.
What is the book about?	This novel is about a young Irish girl and her search for knowledge, her name is Brida. She has interested in various aspects of magic and she want to looking for something more. So she search someone who can teach her about magic. Magus, one of the characters that dominate the tradition of sun. He is the first Brida's teacher. Magus has meaning "Master", until the end of the story called that. He is the middle-aged man in exile in the forest. By Magus, Brida directed to other teachers, Wicca, a woman. Wicca was the one who drove Brida treading slowly gates esoteric understanding to find potential and hidden mysteries. And the search for self that will not find its fulfillment if someone does not find her soul mate.
How many characters are in that novel?	There are four chatacter in this novel. They are: > Brida, as main character. > Magus, as Brida's teacher. > Wicca, as Brida's teacher too. > Lorens, as the man who loved by Brida.
What was your favourite part or character?	My Favourite part in this novel is when Brida realized that her soulmate isn't the man whom she loved,
How is the plot?	Brida is the young girl who curious about magic. Her first teacher is Magus. He is the middle-aged man in exile in the forest. Magus, one of the characters that dominate the tradition of the sun. Magus asked her 'if you fall in love, and on the day I teach the wisdom of the cosmos and in the evening he teaches the wisdom of love. What if you had to choose one of the two? Study or love?' And Brida answer that she would choose her love. Because Brida said the truth, Magus agreed to teach her. But this part of the story makes us all think, how many times in life we come across a situation where we have to choose, rather than what we do is a fun thing certain people, but not for us. Here Brida think if she says she's going to move, Magus may not teach him, but she agreed. Brida did not think about what will happen, but she says what she feels, and how many times we do it in our lives? Finally Magus become Brida's teacher. Brida took the important lessons of life and move back from where she came back for more knowledge about the mysterious world. In the city Brida meet Wicca which follow the tradition of the Moon. Brida visited her for knowing more knowledge. They talked about the tarot cards, they talk about Soulmate, the tradition of the Sun and Moon. The story moved, Brida, eventually finding a bitter fact that the parts of the soulmate is not Lorens, but Magus! Brida asked to Wicca, "What if in a lifetime, a person finds more than one soul mate?" Wicca answered, "Sadness, tears, and grief that very painful." So, in this part is the conflic in this novel, that Brida loved Lorens that he isn't her soulmate. Magus love Wiccans that isn't his soulmate.
Who would you recommend the book to?	After I read this novel, and knowing the story's about, I recommend this book for adult. Because the this novel tells about passion, mystery, spirituality, and more about love.