A review by taylor_broek
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

2.0

This book made me feel like shit! Made me not want to have kids that’s for sure! If you struggle with any kind of rumination, anxiety, depression, obsessiveness, addiction, compulsions, mental illness, fear of germs, are under the age of 25, emotional sensitive or fragile, or have ever felt like a show/movie/character has infiltrated your personality (I.e. watching euphoria and wanting to go on a bender or listening to midnights and wanting to leave your perfectly good relationship) don’t read this book!!!!! Green is very very talented at making the readers emotions and feelings integrate with the mc’s & while that can give you a really good reader experience it can also be too much!! This book was too much! Aza is unlike anyone I have ever met ever and her thinking and philosophizing is so grandeur it’s out of this world it reads quite strange; like she’s a reincarnated 100 year old guru. She’s in high school, the Chewbacca sex fanfic had more of a place! The missing person mystery should have been focused on more or just cut out of the book. Good writing but like too good in a not good way if that makes sense.