Aza's life is filled with complications.
Living with anxiety and OCD is enough but when Daisy, her Best and Most Fearless Friend, brings her on a mission to find a fugitive billionaire things are about to get even more complicated.
To find Russell Pickett, Aza must enter the world of his geeky, but maybe kind-of-cute son, Davis.
But the chances of a first kiss, and maybe even a first love, could send Aza into a spiral of anxiety...
A perfect coming-of-age novel filled with love, mystery and Star Wars fan-fiction.
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[At the time I first realised I might be fictional, my weekdays were spent at a publically-funded institution on the north side of Indianapolis called White River High School, where I was required to eat lunch at a particular time - between 12:37 PM and 1:14 PM - by forces so much larger than myself that I couldn't even begin to identify them]***
(@PenguinUKBooks, 10 October 2017, 200 pages, ebook, #popsugarreadingchallenge 2020, a book recommended by your favourite blog, vlog, podcast or online book club, recommended by @PaperFury, borrowed from @GlasgowLib via @OverDriveLibs)
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So, I'm a big fan of John Green's work. I've read a few of his books and tend to love them. Turtles All The Way Down was no exception. I really enjoyed this. Aza is a great character. I loved her. She's sort of messy but in a great way. I wanted to be her friend and give her a big hug. I loved Dairy as well. They make a perfect double act. This book tackles mental health issues through Aza's anxiety and OCD and does this really well. I thought by the blurb it would be a sort of YA detective novel but it's not really. Aza is curious about a fugitive billionaire and decides his rather cute son is way more interesting. But I'm okay with that. Aza reminded me a lot of myself; she's sort of quiet and is in her own head a lot. It really upset me when Daisy, despite being Aza's best friends says some nasty stuff about her but Aza just forgives her and Green glosses over it. This could have been handled a bit better. I cried a few times because this is just a deep and lovely book.
