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maneeet's review against another edition
4.0
I listened to the audiobook and found it honest and interesting to be inside the fictional mind of someone afflicted with OCD and anxiety. Heads up- it doesn’t promise a happy ending!
swalker444's review against another edition
4.0
Not my fav John Green, but still dece and not sure I would've finished had I not switched to the audiobook.
kamdoitattitude's review against another edition
5.0
Well well well John Green. I see you. I see what you did here. This was a really enjoyable, fascinating read into the mind of a young person with mental health issues. I can’t imagine how difficult this must have been to write. I appreciate that John Green, and so many others, are making us have honest conversations about the state of our mental health and its system, or lack thereof. This was beautiful, and sometimes sad, but a fantastic reminder that humans are complicated, and hurting, and in ways that cannot be seen or described adequately.
So, like, thanks John Green for writing this. Daisy was sort of annoying, like all teens.
So, like, thanks John Green for writing this. Daisy was sort of annoying, like all teens.
jzoni's review against another edition
4.0
Enjoyable John Green book. I really liked the relationship between the main character and her best friend.
lieslstachm's review against another edition
4.0
Lovely. I finished it in an afternoon. It made me think deeply about mental health. Parts were pretentious, but it's a John Green novel, so that's to be expected. All in all, an enjoyable read.
rhalinuviel's review against another edition
4.0
I listened to the audio of this and I really want to get my hands on the book and go back through it because there are so many great little lines throughout. Although there was the usual teen not revealing everything to parent parts (which don’t make sense to me because that was nothing like my teen experience; maybe having a mom that listened to me is unusual), there is actually a good reason for doing so in this book. Aza really doesn’t like to impose her mental issues on other people because of the pressure they then put her, consciously or not, to get better. Something she knows will never happen. And even with the foreshadowing at the end that hints at a happy adult life for her, it’s plain that she has made peace with the fact that life will always be a struggle, that is just who she is. One of the finest moments of the book for me is when Aza explains to her mother that her maternal concern is actually more of a burden than a support to her. When she is in hospital after the accident and tells her mom to stop saying “I can’t lose you too” it was a huge teaching moment for me as a parent of a teen; at some point your concern can seem very selfish to your child.
I wish I could put this book in the hands of everyone I hear dismissing mental illness by telling people to just get over it! Smile! You’ll be fine in a couple days! You just need to relax and stop worrying so much! And all the other platitudes that make people see individuals with mental health issues as an imposition.
I wish I could put this book in the hands of everyone I hear dismissing mental illness by telling people to just get over it! Smile! You’ll be fine in a couple days! You just need to relax and stop worrying so much! And all the other platitudes that make people see individuals with mental health issues as an imposition.
delaney_spiller's review against another edition
3.0
John Green has such beautiful writing and I think he does SO well speaking into what teens are feeling with his characters. BUTTT this just wasn’t my fav by him. I felt like it had great build up but wasn’t extraordinary in any way, which is kind of the point. But alas, GOOOOOOD one liners and he loves a metaphor, which, who am I kidding??? I do, too.
t_morrow's review against another edition
3.0
Anyone that knows me knows that I am not a huge fan of John Green. The manic pixie dream girl that he fabricates with a vocabulary of a distinguished English professor, and humor of a middle aged man is hardly believable. However, Aza really helped warm me to Green a bit.
As someone that also suffers from mental illness, it was both amazing and stressful to read from the perspective of someone with a mental illness. It was amazing because there will be thousands upon thousands of teens and young adults that pick this book up because it was written by "the guy that wrote The Fault in our Stars" and will finally get a pretty accurate glimpse into the life/mind of someone with a mental illness. It was stressful, because I related entirely too much to Aza and it was almost triggering my own anxieties and fears.
However, as amazing as this new protaganist was, there was absolutely zero plot. I felt like Green was so focused on really giving the reader a glimpse into the head of someone with a mental illness that he forgot to actually write plot points. Again this could be credited to the overwhelming fact that someone in Aza's condition is so trapped in their own head the outside world really does cease to exist.
I super appreciated the fact that Aza did not end up with Davis, or anyone for that matter. I am so sick of YA books revolving around the guy getting the girl or the girl getting the guy and finding true love. Not that romance isn't great when it's warranted, I just feel like a lot of YA authors sell themselves short when they give into societal pressures and write a "happy" ending.
Overall, I would recommend this to any and all of my friends that ever want to know what it's like in my head from a day to day basis. Good read, but not my favorite. I think this has redeemed John Green in my eyes.
As someone that also suffers from mental illness, it was both amazing and stressful to read from the perspective of someone with a mental illness. It was amazing because there will be thousands upon thousands of teens and young adults that pick this book up because it was written by "the guy that wrote The Fault in our Stars" and will finally get a pretty accurate glimpse into the life/mind of someone with a mental illness. It was stressful, because I related entirely too much to Aza and it was almost triggering my own anxieties and fears.
However, as amazing as this new protaganist was, there was absolutely zero plot. I felt like Green was so focused on really giving the reader a glimpse into the head of someone with a mental illness that he forgot to actually write plot points. Again this could be credited to the overwhelming fact that someone in Aza's condition is so trapped in their own head the outside world really does cease to exist.
I super appreciated the fact that Aza did not end up with Davis, or anyone for that matter. I am so sick of YA books revolving around the guy getting the girl or the girl getting the guy and finding true love. Not that romance isn't great when it's warranted, I just feel like a lot of YA authors sell themselves short when they give into societal pressures and write a "happy" ending.
Overall, I would recommend this to any and all of my friends that ever want to know what it's like in my head from a day to day basis. Good read, but not my favorite. I think this has redeemed John Green in my eyes.
jorowags's review against another edition
3.0
Audiobooked this over a few days. It was quick and relatively engaging. There were some surprising things here that pleased me, especially the friendship between what's her face and what's her face and the way they both prioritized each other. I'm so weary of the "mean girls" approach to writing women -- especially when written by men -- and so this was a nice surprise and I think a more realistic take on emerging adolescent women than I have seen in the YA literature before.
I honestly am not sure what the point of the Pickett-is-missing-and-Davis-has-money story was, but maybe that's my own shortcoming and I just need to think about it for a while. It made a lot of this very relatable story (at least to those of us with anxiety) very UNrelatable.
I honestly am not sure what the point of the Pickett-is-missing-and-Davis-has-money story was, but maybe that's my own shortcoming and I just need to think about it for a while. It made a lot of this very relatable story (at least to those of us with anxiety) very UNrelatable.
bibliophilebritt's review against another edition
5.0
Aza is going to die. Maybe not today, and maybe not in the next fifty years, but it is going to happen. Daisy, her bestest friend, is fearless. When Daisy wants to investigate the disappearance of the local billionaire, how can see say no? especially with a $100,000 reward in the mix.
When she was younger, Aza's father dropped dead (literally), completely unexpectedly. Could this have triggered her fear of microbes and everything that could make her sick? Possibly. Could the fear have always bee there? Also possibly. The mind is such a mystery.
While my issues are completely different, I can relate to Aza in certain aspects. I also have certain things that I need to do. I could also see myself looking into a local fugitive case because the mystery intrigued me.
old friends' lives.
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★★★★★
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"I don't control my thoughts, so they're not really mine. I don't decide if I'm sweating or get cancer or C. diff or whatever, so my body isn't really mine. I don't decide any of that- outside forces do. I'm a story they're telling. I am circumstances."
-John Green, "Turtles All the Way Down"
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Genre: Mental Heath, Romance
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When she was younger, Aza's father dropped dead (literally), completely unexpectedly. Could this have triggered her fear of microbes and everything that could make her sick? Possibly. Could the fear have always bee there? Also possibly. The mind is such a mystery.
While my issues are completely different, I can relate to Aza in certain aspects. I also have certain things that I need to do. I could also see myself looking into a local fugitive case because the mystery intrigued me.
old friends' lives.
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★★★★★
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"I don't control my thoughts, so they're not really mine. I don't decide if I'm sweating or get cancer or C. diff or whatever, so my body isn't really mine. I don't decide any of that- outside forces do. I'm a story they're telling. I am circumstances."
-John Green, "Turtles All the Way Down"
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Genre: Mental Heath, Romance
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#bookstagram #instabook #bookphotography #librarian #igbooks #ilovereading #bookhoarder #bookaddiction #bookstoread #whattoread #fortheloveofbooks #bookblogging #bookpics #bookrecs #bookreviews #booknerd #bookpictures #justread #bibliophile #TurtlesAllTheWayDown #JohnGreen #Contemporary #ContemporaryFiction #MentalHealth #Romance #Mystery #MentalIllness #Death #deathStories