The narration is good. The writing style is superb. The different point of view of accounts talking about one certain is an odd thing for me to get a unifying story out of it, but it works. Everything is interconnected. I didn't miss a single thing about Athena, who is also the main topic of every narration of different people in this book.

I was hesitant to read this book because of how it was written, it was a first for me to encounter or to read a book written this way. I was afraid I would get bored and drop the book half-way, yet just like any other book of Paulo Coelho that I read, The Witch of Portobello did not disappoint me. I was hooked and eager to see how the story would end, what would happen to Athena, and how the author would wrap up the story in a way that it would not end up in tragedy. 

It is a story about faith and I will not recommend this book for people who yet to have deep and rooted faith in the One and Only True God, and also a personal intimate relationship with Him.

It is so natural for Paulo Coelho to touch on the most controversial and sensitive issues in our society through his books. I thought maybe this book is some kind of analogy of what is happening truly in our society. Once you read this, you decide, but please consider my fair warning from the paragraph before this one.

Right now, I do wonder if I should still read his books. Should I finish the entire book set? Is it still worth it? 

I'm saying yes.

But what do you think?