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A review by jadeevans
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
5.0
Well, it's been a while John Green but it's finally here. I can safely say that this book is one of my favourite reads of 2017 and it highly deserved it! I will admit, it's not the best John Green book I have read (Looking for Alaska will always be my favourite), but it is up there with the best.
Turtles All the Way Down. I had no idea what to make of the title but once I read the book, I was able to learn why it was named that and I actually really like why it was chosen for the title.
"Sir, you don't understand. It's turtles all the way down."
This book is about a teenager called Aza Holmes who suffers from OCD as well as trying to pursue the fugitive mystery of billionaire Russell Pickett. I read this book over the course of around 26 hours and it is what brought me out of a forever dreaded reading slump. This story is told from the point of view of Aza which allows us to delve deep into how she deals with her OCD as well as how she is feeling whilst coping with said OCD. I like when a story is told from a main characters point of view, even though it is probably the most common form of writing, I like it as it allows to learn and understand how that character is feeling from the first page up until the very end of the book. Aza is the main character in the book followed closely by Davis and Daisy, Davis being the son of the billionaire fugitive and Daisy being Aza's best friend. Even though they do have their slight ups and downs during the novel, they manage to make up and go on as if nothing had happened between them.
If I could change anything about the book, it would have been what happened to Davis's father as I would have liked to learn more about him and not just from the point of Davis as he told Aza about him. It would have been nice to know why he decided to leave his fortune to his pet tuatara, a small lizard like creature, and not his two children, and when I mean his fortune, I mean his entire fortune, house and all. I wonder if Aza would have described him differently than what Davis had done. would she have had a different opinion on him if she had actually met him at this time. They had probably once met before when both Aza and Davis were younger as they both went to the same 'Sad Camp' for children who had lost a parent. She obviously would have remembered him from then but would anything have changed?
Before I actually read this book, I was like, "oh, I need to give this book five stars just because it's John Green", I feel as if it was something that was expected from people but this book is actually worth the five stars that I have given it and it's not just an impulsive five stars.
All in all, I would highly recommend this book to... whoever wants to read it, I suppose, I'm not the best at recommending books to certain groups of people.
Turtles All the Way Down. I had no idea what to make of the title but once I read the book, I was able to learn why it was named that and I actually really like why it was chosen for the title.
"Sir, you don't understand. It's turtles all the way down."
This book is about a teenager called Aza Holmes who suffers from OCD as well as trying to pursue the fugitive mystery of billionaire Russell Pickett. I read this book over the course of around 26 hours and it is what brought me out of a forever dreaded reading slump. This story is told from the point of view of Aza which allows us to delve deep into how she deals with her OCD as well as how she is feeling whilst coping with said OCD. I like when a story is told from a main characters point of view, even though it is probably the most common form of writing, I like it as it allows to learn and understand how that character is feeling from the first page up until the very end of the book. Aza is the main character in the book followed closely by Davis and Daisy, Davis being the son of the billionaire fugitive and Daisy being Aza's best friend. Even though they do have their slight ups and downs during the novel, they manage to make up and go on as if nothing had happened between them.
If I could change anything about the book, it would have been what happened to Davis's father as I would have liked to learn more about him and not just from the point of Davis as he told Aza about him. It would have been nice to know why he decided to leave his fortune to his pet tuatara, a small lizard like creature, and not his two children, and when I mean his fortune, I mean his entire fortune, house and all. I wonder if Aza would have described him differently than what Davis had done. would she have had a different opinion on him if she had actually met him at this time. They had probably once met before when both Aza and Davis were younger as they both went to the same 'Sad Camp' for children who had lost a parent. She obviously would have remembered him from then but would anything have changed?
Before I actually read this book, I was like, "oh, I need to give this book five stars just because it's John Green", I feel as if it was something that was expected from people but this book is actually worth the five stars that I have given it and it's not just an impulsive five stars.
All in all, I would highly recommend this book to... whoever wants to read it, I suppose, I'm not the best at recommending books to certain groups of people.