If you want to believe that what happened is true as the author claimed, feel free to do so. If you don't believe such things, read it like a fictional book, as I did... Sometimes during reading I thought it to be very outrageous, but after some time, I thought it to be so funny that I wanted to laugh and started comparing it to Lord of the rings or anything extremely unlikely to be true... I give it one star because the author claims everything is real and until now I haven't seen a point of light above the left shoulder of my husband, so he is not my other half... Maybe am I married to the wrong man, sir Paulo Coelho? Hilarious!!