This book was a part of my BUDDY READING CHALLENGE in Goodreads . Me and Carmen , my beautiful friend from Spain started reading this together. Even though, we both had seen what happens to Veronika in the end, we still stuck together and started reading it. The book starts with the passage from Luke 10:19 Behold I give unto you power to tread on serpents... and nothing shall by any means hurt you The story starts on 11th November 1997 , when Veronika the protagonist of the story decides to end up her life. She silently picks up four packs of sleeping pills from her table and takes them one by one until they are all over. She then picks up a magazine to find out someone asking "Where Slovenia is..." . She then thinks her death note should be explaining where Slovenia is and then passes out. When she wakes up, she finds herself in middle of tubes thrust down her throat, in the mental asylum Vilete. It is the much-feared luna...