Someone said, don’t judge a book by its cover, but no one said anything about judging a book by its title. Veronika Decides To Die is a quirky title, which pulls you in enough to pick up the book and start reading.
When you pick a book written by Paulo Coelho, you already have high hopes, and Veronika Decides To Die has you hooked the moment you lay your eyes on it. Thankfully, what’s inside the book doesn’t disappoint either.
From alchemy to adultery, the author has a knack for dealing with sensitive subjects. This time he kills two birds with one stone. The author gives an insight into the metaphysical concept of astral projection and, at the same time, deals with a subject that is very personal to him–madness.
He takes the readers into a mental asylum and inside the heads of the ‘so called’ mad men through the eyes of a girl, Veronika, the protagonist. The book starts out dramatically as Veronika sits with ‘four packs of sleeping pills’. Ten pages into the book, Veronika attempts suicide. It shocks.
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