Author: John Green
Genre: Fiction
Sometimes, expectations hurt you quite a bit and this happened
to me while I read "Turtles All the Way Down" from John Green. I was
quite excited to get this book after I had read "Fault in Our Stars"
from the same author but this book is a complete disaster according to me
though it’s another Bestseller copy.
The story constantly revolves around a girl called Aza and her
paranoia about the intestine related disorder, C.Diff. She constantly keeps
worrying about how she is helping worms breed in her body by feeding the energy
through the food she eats. Her hysterical behavior of cleansing her stomach by
popping in hand sanitizer at times got way too obnoxious and the entire read
becomes deranged at times.
The good part of the book was the explanation of Tuatura and the
Obsessive Compulsion Disorder. The detailed explanation of the disorder and the
behavioral changes has been expressed phenomenally and this is unimaginable but
somewhere, the plot loses its significance and gets a little too complex with
long and endless sentences.
The author has tried to squeeze in too much of information all
at once and the story loses interest as there seems to be a loss of connection.
The friendship between Aza and Daisy gets muddled up when they start involving
in romantic relationships with Davis and Mychal respectively.
The plot which initially seems to be a thriller slowly loses its
essence when Aza gets into a relationship with her old acquaintance, Davis
Pickett. But ultimately, the novel gets a closure but I never found what
happened to the Tuatura later and it was quite unbelievable to know that an
animal can also become a legal heir of somebody's billion-dollar property.
"I thought about how we all believed ourselves to be the
hero of some personal epic, when in fact we were basically identical organisms
colonizing a vast and windowless room that smells of Lysol and lard." -
Turtles All The Way Down
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