Twenty-four-year-old Veronika seems to have everything–youth and beauty, boyfriends and a loving family, a fulfilling job. But something is missing in her life.

With school I’m very busy reading and writing, so I’ve been waiting to find time to read Veronika Decides to Die for fun. I was anxious to read this book because I knew that I would relate to Veronika, minus the suicidal tendencies. Paulo Coelho hit it right on the nail, as Kristan would say. It is actually being into a movie starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, so I want to finish the book before I watch it.

In one of her lucid moments, a nurse asked her: “Don’t you want to know how you are?”

“I already know,” replied Veronika. “And it has nothing to do with what you can see happening in my body; it’s what’s happening in my soul.”