The Spy by Paulo Coelho
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This was not the best book that I have read but still this will be with me for a long time. This book was different . The narration of the book was done by letters. Mata Hari the protagonist of the book have written a letter to her daughter describing her journey of life . The second part is the letter written by the advocate friend to Mata Hari. I really loved the style of narration. It brings a freshness to the way a story is conveyed rather then the traditional way.

It was not a great book. At first it shows a young women intoxicated with beauty , fame and money telling her story . Her story although have a lot of aspect, feels some time very boring and predictable. The second half of the book however shows what the world thinks about her and what she actually is . Here one will get the interest of knowing what comes next and the book suddenly becomes very interesting , But the best part of the book is the Ending. Here it becomes really thrilling , exciting , emotional and one cannot put it down. Paulo have done a splendid work to portray Mata Hari and the world in early 20th century .

The bonus point for this book are the small ancient stories that comes every now and then. They were like the cherry on top of the cake. This book after Alchemist have inspired me on reading more work from Paulo Coelho.

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