Veronika Decides To Die - A Review

“What does it mean to be mad?”

Does it mean you throw things at people or scare them away or become a loner? In short what people think is that being mad is being different. But it’s not like each one of us is similar anyway. What if everyone was mad and the actual ‘mad’ ones were normal? Then the normal people would be considered mad just because they’re different.

A keyboard without the QWERTY sequence of letters is abnormal. A person with different interests, in today’s metallic world, is abnormal. Imagine a mental hospital. What do you find there?

The girl fighting depression has the best drawing.

The boy with schizophrenia has the best heart and sweetest smile.

The woman who tried to kill herself plays piano flawlessly.

The kid who ran away and hit two people by accident has the best voice the cuckoo could never sing with.

Everyone’s seen the world through usual eyes but how many have tried to put themselves into different shoes? It’s pretty easy to think of having to control your mind but there comes a time when you no longer have control over your nerves or yourself. There comes a time when your mind roams freely around but the poor soul is trapped between narrow walls of fear, insecurities, problems, regrets.

It’s not their bad that they forget to look at the final reward rather than the compromises made to achieve it. At times they just need a hand to pick them up and guide them through the black walls into the rainbow coloured paradise that only comes to those who dream. All they need is a skyline, a horizon to their roaming thoughts and an open door to their trapped soul.

And who know all this better than Veronika? She knows that when you try to take your life everyone just assumes you’ve gone insane, and when you beg and claim that you aren’t mad, there’s no one who wouldn’t recommend you a doctor. She knows what death is, she’s seen what death is, oblivious that she had all the life left in her that she ever needed. Life gives her a choice: to be wilful and have her life back, or behold, awaiting death. Now no spoilers about whether she finds a way out, but one HAS TO HAVE this book on their bucket-list no matter what.

Firstly you get to experience a ride into a very different person’s mind and see the world from their shoes and understand what it really feels like to be eaten by inner cannibals inside. Secondly the beautiful and persuasive words of Paulo Coelho are the best guide to take you through all of it.

No writer could’ve done it better to be honest.

A good concept, a great writer, what else do you even wish from dear life!!?

Veronika decides to die would make you cry and feel great about the precious and rare gift of life, playing with your mind and you being oblivious about it.

The title is just a spoiler, it doesn’t tell the story at all. This book doesn’t lead you into negative thoughts but it makes you want to live life and live it like you were to die any unknown moment.

Veronika awaits her death and decided to enjoy her very last day, and on that last day begins the rest of her life.

The book has a PLOT TWIST, mates.

You should totally be bringing over it at the moment, under your blanket since it is January. Amazing feels on fleek.

There’s something in the book about some research about this thing called the ‘vitriol’ which changes hormonal stuff inside you and stuff like that, which is pretty interesting and new in itself.

Now, READ TO FIND OUT!

GO DO IT!