I just want to start by saying that John Green is one of my favorite authors. I’m in love with the way he writes his characters and just the fact that he’s able to write from a teenager’s point of view and make it believable is awesome.
Turtles All the Way Down tells the story of Aza and her friend Daisy as they work to solve the case of Pickett, Davis’s missing dad. Davis is seen as a potential love interest for Aza but with her fear of germs, she’s unwilling to kiss him. While Green does look at the economic divide between Davis and Aza, he also shows how that divide is handled and how it helps to develop their relationship. The main theme throughout the book is mental illness as it is shown from the start of the book that Aza is not only working to solve the mystery but also working to manage her anxiety and her obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD.) Throughout the book, Aza asks deep questions and searches for the answers but as the book progresses, we see that only more questions are being asked with none being answered. Green’s reasoning for this is “you never really find answers, just new and deeper answers.” But what Green keeps his main focus on is mental illness. The book ends with the mystery being solved, but no questions are ever really answered, Green ends the book showing an acceptance towards things and the way they are.
This book is one that I would highly recommend, it’s my absolute favorite of all of John Green’s books. I read this book when it first came out because my friend had gotten it and had talked about how amazing it was and how she was rushing through it. So, I decided I would read it and I ended up doing the same thing. Despite it being published in October and me drowning in school work, I still ended up finishing the book in under a week and we ended up passing the book around our whole friend group and making everyone read it.
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