I have read so many good reviews I am definitely going to get into this book. A fun fact for everyone; I have reason to believe hat Billy Talent song, Saint Veronika, was influenced by this book. It has almost the exact same facts involved with the book. ie. The sleeping pills

This book is a hard book to get through but at the end you finally learn the lesson being set forth. I will continue to read books from this other because I can always take something away from each book.

In Veronika Decides to Die we meet 24 year old Veronika who decides to commit suicide by taking a handful of pills. She expects to not wake up, but she does and she is in a mental hospital. The journey she begins is unimaginable. Veronika learns an abundance about herself and others around her.

This novel is an eye-opening story that will stay with you for many days after.

From the book ' No one can judge. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering or the total absence of meaning in their lives.'

'She gave all her friends the impression that she was a woman to be envied, and she expended most of her energy in trying to behave in accordance with the image she had created of herself.'

If you want your eyes opened, read this book.

This great, great book by one of my favourite authors really does hit home! It has you reflect on the real you, i.e. not the person you are as a product of social, cultural, peer pressure. In the Paulo Coelho line of excellence!