Turtles all the Way Down


About:
The wait is over. After five years, the master of YA returns with an immediate, coming-of-age classic; John Green is back, and the book is Turtles all the Way Down.
Meet Aza Holmes. She’s a teenager, bright but hemmed in by troubles: introverted, obsessed by bacteria and the transmission of disease, her every thought is edged by doubt and reflection. 
Daisy however is her Best and Most Fearless Friend, and Daisy has a plan. A plan involving a missing billionaire and the promise of a hundred thousand dollar reward, money that could be theirs if only they could figure out where he has gone. That’s where Russell comes in, and that’s where things start to get really interesting.
Combining mystery, love, truth, courage and the meaning of real friendship, Turtles all the Way Down stands as John Green’s most personal story yet, drawing deep on his own experience of growing up in an uncertain world. “It will pluck the strings of those in tune with it,” noted Matt Haig. “It will resonate with, and comfort, anxious young minds everywhere. It might just be a new modern classic.”

My Thoughts:
It's a wonderfully written book. Green really does a great job at his first person narrative giving a bery nice peak into a teenager's life. But it's more than just that.
The condition that Aza suffers from, is initially portrayed as an irritating rant but later, when jer soliloquy ends up with her pleading to her thoughts before finally giving away to them, we really know how worse a condition can get.
From a hysterical obsession with changing band aids to the verge of gulping hand sanitizer, mental illness can make one do things. But she hasn't been shown as someone to shoo away. Instead, her longing to lead a normal life is what forced us to empathize even more. It also sends a deep message with every other character involved.

Davis Pickett's character very beautifully shoes the present generation that all the pictures that the billionaire kids post on instagram barely tell the truth of their lives, and a longing that money can't quell.
A great and heart wrenching read.

Genre: Young adult fiction

Rating:

Amazon.com: 4.5/5
Goodreads: 4.1/5

Famous Reviews:

A new modern classic (Guardian)

A wrenching and revelatory novel (The New York Times)

Imaginative . . . affecting . . . unforgettable (Heat)

Written with a sure grasp of the thought processes of teenagers . . . Another winner (The Sunday Times)

Tender, wise, and hopeful (The Wall Street Journal)

Green's most authentic and most ambitious work to date (Bustle)

An existential teenage scream (Vox)




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