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A review by argyledinosaur
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
3.0
Okay, so to start off, I feel the need to explain that I am not a John Green hater. It's become so popular and so common now to just hate on anything and everything John Green has anything to do with. That's not my style. I'm also not a John Green stan, I acknowledge that his books are largely over hyped and then because of all the hype they tend to disappoint, but they're still good and still enjoyable.
I went into the book with the expectation that I would probably like some things about it, hate other things about it, but overall enjoy it and that's honestly how I feel about it. I hated the best friend, I hated the character Mychal because he was underdeveloped and annoying, I wasn't a fan of the fact that Davis was a poor little rich boy, and the main character annoyed me for the first half of the book, and the main point of the story (finding Davis's dad) is tossed to the side to focus on their forced love story. I feel so bad saying all this, but it is what it is.
Even though the love story was SUPER forced, I did start to enjoy it about half way through the book. I just feel like Davis understood Aza in a way that nobody else did, and the same for the other way around. The best friend, Daiy, was annoying, self-centered, and just overall a completely unlikable character in my opinion. For crying out loud she wrote a character into her fanfiction based on Aza and made her essentially useless. I liked Aza's mom and understood her motivation for being the way she was, and I like Noah, Davis's younger brother, but I only genuinely enjoyed maybe 2 characters out of the cast of characters.
I felt like the story was forgotten half way through the book so we could focus on the love story and then the book ends with them breaking up. Like. Really. The only thing I enjoyed about this book was just ripped apart at the end. I don't really have the patience for stuff like this. The story either should've focused more on the mystery so the end didn't make the rest of the book pointless, or it should've had a happy ending. I'm not saying every book needs a happy ending and I do appreciate that he was trying to do something different by not having a normal tried and true happy ending, but still. This book just wasn't for me, and that's okay.
I give it 3 stars because while it was frustrating to read, it did get better about half way through, until the ending ruined it for me. It is a decent book, it's written well enough, but it's not for people that are trying to read a mystery honestly, and it's hardly for people that want a love story.
I went into the book with the expectation that I would probably like some things about it, hate other things about it, but overall enjoy it and that's honestly how I feel about it. I hated the best friend, I hated the character Mychal because he was underdeveloped and annoying, I wasn't a fan of the fact that Davis was a poor little rich boy, and the main character annoyed me for the first half of the book, and the main point of the story (finding Davis's dad) is tossed to the side to focus on their forced love story. I feel so bad saying all this, but it is what it is.
Even though the love story was SUPER forced, I did start to enjoy it about half way through the book. I just feel like Davis understood Aza in a way that nobody else did, and the same for the other way around. The best friend, Daiy, was annoying, self-centered, and just overall a completely unlikable character in my opinion. For crying out loud she wrote a character into her fanfiction based on Aza and made her essentially useless. I liked Aza's mom and understood her motivation for being the way she was, and I like Noah, Davis's younger brother, but I only genuinely enjoyed maybe 2 characters out of the cast of characters.
I felt like the story was forgotten half way through the book so we could focus on the love story and then the book ends with them breaking up. Like. Really. The only thing I enjoyed about this book was just ripped apart at the end. I don't really have the patience for stuff like this. The story either should've focused more on the mystery so the end didn't make the rest of the book pointless, or it should've had a happy ending. I'm not saying every book needs a happy ending and I do appreciate that he was trying to do something different by not having a normal tried and true happy ending, but still. This book just wasn't for me, and that's okay.
I give it 3 stars because while it was frustrating to read, it did get better about half way through, until the ending ruined it for me. It is a decent book, it's written well enough, but it's not for people that are trying to read a mystery honestly, and it's hardly for people that want a love story.