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Turtles All The Way Down - John Green (BOOK REVIEW)

*Caution - This post may contain spoilers*

"Sixteen-year-old Aza never intended to persue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there's a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Russell Pickett's son, Davis. 

Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective, while also living in the ever-tightening spiral of her thoughts." 

'Turtles All The Way Down' is written in a brutally honest way, but I believe it is something that needed to be written. The way that John Green has written in the voice of character Aza is brilliant, he doesn't hold back or glamorise what it is like to live within one's mind. The story winds and twists and while it is predictable in some places, I can say that the ending is something that you wouldn't be expecting. 

I fell in love with the characters and felt what they were feeling, my reading pace increasing with Aza's thoughts and feeling the impact of the car crash. Green writes impeccably well, and I always find myself getting lost in his books - this one I read in two days and am already desperate to read it again. 

I always find that when I'm stuck in a reading rut, a John Green book, or 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower' or anything similar will quickly get me out of it, because these books are so easy to read - they're written in a way that keeps you trapped inside the story until it ends, which is wonderful. The characters seem so real, it's a life away from your own and I love that. 

So, John Green, I commend you for writing this book, because it was something that I needed to read. Thank you 

- Dottie x

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