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A review by leclerc
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
4.0
'Anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.'
As a person who suffers from OCD, and (health) anxiety since I'm 8 years old this book meant a lot to me. I think what made the book so rare, and real was John Green's own struggle with OCD.
Reading this book was like a slap to my face. Aza's thought process, and spirals reminded me a lot of my own. And I think John did an amazing job at portraying that. She knows she has a problem and she is doing her best to work through it but she just can't escape what she thinks or who she truly is. There is always something at the back of her mind that annoying thought that you can't let out, and even though she is living an ordinary life and doing homework etc. It's still holding her back.
I liked how the book didn't have a happy ending, and made her mental illness magically go away. Because that's not how it works. The ending showed that it will get better but, it can always get a little bit harder but, you will work through it, and it will get better.
As a person who suffers from OCD, and (health) anxiety since I'm 8 years old this book meant a lot to me. I think what made the book so rare, and real was John Green's own struggle with OCD.
Reading this book was like a slap to my face. Aza's thought process, and spirals reminded me a lot of my own. And I think John did an amazing job at portraying that. She knows she has a problem and she is doing her best to work through it but she just can't escape what she thinks or who she truly is. There is always something at the back of her mind that annoying thought that you can't let out, and even though she is living an ordinary life and doing homework etc. It's still holding her back.
I liked how the book didn't have a happy ending, and made her mental illness magically go away. Because that's not how it works. The ending showed that it will get better but, it can always get a little bit harder but, you will work through it, and it will get better.