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A review by bridgetotherapia
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
5.0
To be honest, Turtles All the Way Down theory gave me more anxiety when I first read it. It's like, where do those turtles actually stop existing? Is there no end?
This book surprised me. It has all typical John Green stuff in it, yet the way that Aza's anxiety was described was so close to my disorder. I thought "Someone actually wrote this down, someone actually felt this." Being exposed to invasives and feeling that spiral tightening around are very real and it was disturbing to read them, yet it was also good to read them. Because I knew that I was not alone. Also the ending for Aza was very real and accurate in my opinion. There is no magical cure to anxiety, depression and (for me) OCD. You just keep on going and meanwhile try to live your life. As it was once said by Rae Earl on My Mad Fat Diary (the television show, not in the books), that travels with you.
This book surprised me. It has all typical John Green stuff in it, yet the way that Aza's anxiety was described was so close to my disorder. I thought "Someone actually wrote this down, someone actually felt this." Being exposed to invasives and feeling that spiral tightening around are very real and it was disturbing to read them, yet it was also good to read them. Because I knew that I was not alone. Also the ending for Aza was very real and accurate in my opinion. There is no magical cure to anxiety, depression and (for me) OCD. You just keep on going and meanwhile try to live your life. As it was once said by Rae Earl on My Mad Fat Diary (the television show, not in the books), that travels with you.