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A review by guivx5
Tartarugas até lá embaixo by John Green
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
While I recompose myself after reading the end of this book, I can only think that, God, why does John Green always make funny and at the same time emotionally devastating stories? I never forgot when I laughed at a balls cancer joke in "The Fault in Our Stars", and it really paints his writing style: smart, cohesive, funny and emotionally devastating in a matter of two paragraphs.
This is the journey of a girl dealing with her mental illness, above all things. And it is written beautifully. It scares me how precise Green is when it comes to teenage characters. Aza, Daisy, Mychal, Davis, you name it, they're cohesive from start to finish. Green is just really good at making worlds come to life, believable worlds, made in a very smart way. Books are often written on the premises of epic plots, big events or some catastrophe. The hardest stories to write are the ones who are not based on the apocalypse or great murder cases. They are built on top of subtlety, a delicate balance, something I've only seen done right recently in "Circe", and it is achieved here with praise.
Special highlight on the way Green wrote about mental illness. Genius, never too soothing, never too exaggerated. Something that gets better, and then gets worse, and then gets better, and so it goes. No romanticizing, just experiencing.
Through all of it's plots, "Turtles All The Way Down" manages to drive the reader to a journey of a mind that reflects on us so much, yet is nothing like us. Green's philosophical style makes you wander through the pages never giving an answer, but always better questions. And, Jesus, that ending. Those last two pages, I'LL SEND YOU MY THERAPY BILL, JOHN GREEN.
You can see my tears are not dry yet, so my lawyers will be in touch.
This is the journey of a girl dealing with her mental illness, above all things. And it is written beautifully. It scares me how precise Green is when it comes to teenage characters. Aza, Daisy, Mychal, Davis, you name it, they're cohesive from start to finish. Green is just really good at making worlds come to life, believable worlds, made in a very smart way. Books are often written on the premises of epic plots, big events or some catastrophe. The hardest stories to write are the ones who are not based on the apocalypse or great murder cases. They are built on top of subtlety, a delicate balance, something I've only seen done right recently in "Circe", and it is achieved here with praise.
Special highlight on the way Green wrote about mental illness. Genius, never too soothing, never too exaggerated. Something that gets better, and then gets worse, and then gets better, and so it goes. No romanticizing, just experiencing.
Through all of it's plots, "Turtles All The Way Down" manages to drive the reader to a journey of a mind that reflects on us so much, yet is nothing like us. Green's philosophical style makes you wander through the pages never giving an answer, but always better questions. And, Jesus, that ending. Those last two pages, I'LL SEND YOU MY THERAPY BILL, JOHN GREEN.
You can see my tears are not dry yet, so my lawyers will be in touch.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Car accident, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Self harm
Moderate: Grief and Death of parent