Reviews

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

mjlb's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

toddcee's review

emotional funny reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

kee_srli5t's review

hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

rileybq's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

applesauceee's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

daphelba's review against another edition

5.0

This book is my heart

As someone who struggles with health anxiety and compulsive thoughts, it was both uncomfortable and incredibly validating to meet and learn to love a main character who resembled me in a lot of ways. John Green’s question and answer section at the end further solidified why I seem to innately love him as an author. He is so very human and captures human pain, fear, selfishness, and hopefulness so very well.

zozobereading's review

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

ambrose_7's review

4.0

I think this book is tragic for two primary reasons. Firstly, I think because of how unorthodox and untraditional it is. Green makes the book feel so much more real and raw with his knowledge of people who differ from the norm. It’s so different from the everyday sadness I’ve grown accustomed too. Secondly, I think that books that slowly add the sadness over the course of the book really get to me. The ending resolves some of it, but not all of that weight ever really goes away.

allisonm's review against another edition

emotional funny mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

rachellemarcotte's review

3.75

I think I would have liked this more if I was in high school, not because it was bad but because some themes and lessons would have been more impactful to me at that time. 

I truly don’t know if I could have forgiven

Daisy for the fanfic character

but it’s also such a teenager thing to do that it kind of makes sense. 

I don’t really get why Davis was there, the friendship between the two girls was infinitely more interesting than him, and the whole “mystery” of his father was not super necessary and kind of unsatisfying.