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A review by lady_wira
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
5.0
Turtles all the way down by John Green is a captivating read. It is no surprise that John Green’s writing is emotion provoking, troubled and with a tinge of hope. After reading his maser piece The fault in our starts, I was drawn to his works and will undoubtedly say, he is one of the best YA authors.
Turtles All the Way Down follows Aza (16-year-old) troubled teenager, suffering from extreme anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Aza is fixated on the disappearance of an Indianapolis billionaire, her best friend Daisy recalls that Aza knows the billionaire’s son and provokes her to discover the billionaire’s whereabouts and pocket the $100,000 reward.
What follows are the intricacies of teenagers conducting intense investigations towards the location of the billionaire. Aza and Davis (the billionaire’s son) first met in grief counselling. Aza lost her father while Davis lost her mother. They find solace in each other, and trauma bonding draws them into a romantic relationship.
John Green’s capturing of friendships is deep and one of the reasons why people are drawn to his work. As the book progresses we see the challenges in friendships, the desire to fit in and feel accepted as well as the fear of rejection. Daisy and Aza’s friendship vis a vis Aza and Davis’s friendship.
Aza’s mind and thought processing are intriguing to read, her mind is nothing short of a battlefront. She is in a constant war with herself, additionally, her OCD keeps her in unceasing pain as she keeps reopening her infected wound in an attempt to “drain the infection”.
Excerpts:
no one ever says good-bye unless they want to see you again.
The worst part of being truly alone is you think about all the times you wished that everyone would just leave you be. Then they do, and you are left being, and you turn out to be terrible company
The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely
You are my favorite person,” Daisy tells Aza after they’ve reconciled. “I want to be buried next to you. We’ll have a shared tombstone
As a reader, I constantly wanted the best outcome for Aza, John Green’s insertion of his own OCD in the book gives a better sense of understanding him and understanding the challenges of OCD. It was a clever way of bringing much-needed awareness to the condition.
The first few pages were hard to read, it felt like an attempt at a John Grisham style of writing, but as the story progresses the genius and uniqueness that is John Green is apparent.
To read this book is to see the suffering of Aza, the pain of Davis and the challenges of Daisy. To be alive is to endure pain at some point in life, it is inevitable. And what a tragic thing it is when your own mind develops a mind of its own.
Turtles All the Way Down follows Aza (16-year-old) troubled teenager, suffering from extreme anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Aza is fixated on the disappearance of an Indianapolis billionaire, her best friend Daisy recalls that Aza knows the billionaire’s son and provokes her to discover the billionaire’s whereabouts and pocket the $100,000 reward.
What follows are the intricacies of teenagers conducting intense investigations towards the location of the billionaire. Aza and Davis (the billionaire’s son) first met in grief counselling. Aza lost her father while Davis lost her mother. They find solace in each other, and trauma bonding draws them into a romantic relationship.
John Green’s capturing of friendships is deep and one of the reasons why people are drawn to his work. As the book progresses we see the challenges in friendships, the desire to fit in and feel accepted as well as the fear of rejection. Daisy and Aza’s friendship vis a vis Aza and Davis’s friendship.
Aza’s mind and thought processing are intriguing to read, her mind is nothing short of a battlefront. She is in a constant war with herself, additionally, her OCD keeps her in unceasing pain as she keeps reopening her infected wound in an attempt to “drain the infection”.
Excerpts:
no one ever says good-bye unless they want to see you again.
The worst part of being truly alone is you think about all the times you wished that everyone would just leave you be. Then they do, and you are left being, and you turn out to be terrible company
The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely
You are my favorite person,” Daisy tells Aza after they’ve reconciled. “I want to be buried next to you. We’ll have a shared tombstone
As a reader, I constantly wanted the best outcome for Aza, John Green’s insertion of his own OCD in the book gives a better sense of understanding him and understanding the challenges of OCD. It was a clever way of bringing much-needed awareness to the condition.
The first few pages were hard to read, it felt like an attempt at a John Grisham style of writing, but as the story progresses the genius and uniqueness that is John Green is apparent.
To read this book is to see the suffering of Aza, the pain of Davis and the challenges of Daisy. To be alive is to endure pain at some point in life, it is inevitable. And what a tragic thing it is when your own mind develops a mind of its own.