Turtles All The Way Down is Nothing Short of a Masterpiece

Have you picked up a book, read the first line, and just knew that it was going to be one of your new favorites? Well, that's how it was for me with this one.

From the very first line, I had an out-of-body experience where it felt like John Green had looked inside my head and written exactly what I needed. I immediately connected with Aza so much and I just knew I had to go through this ride with her.

Green has an incredible gift with writing first-person and it made Aza feel like this incredibly close friend who you knew so well. His writing always feels so personal and intimate in the most beautiful ways. It just keeps you reading and I love it.

His other characters were also written very well. I loved Daisy, for example. Her dynamic with Aza was perfect. Davis was also perfect and his chemistry with Aza was also perfect. Their relationship was so adorable and they complimented each other very well.

This is a book I struggle with talking about because it's just so perfect, in my opinion, so here are some final thoughts:

1. I love the quirky John Green parts with Davis' dad mystery. It was so weird, but is a book truly a John Green book if it doesn't have a weird side plot? Ugh, I love it.

2. The writing, once again, is just so perfect and it captures her mental illness so well.

3. Some of the lines of Aza talking about her feelings for Davis are some of the most adorable things I have ever read and I loved it.

4. The ending broke me. I cried so much (not nearly as much as with Me Before You, but still a lot), and I cry every time I reread it. The way the book turns into an ambiguous message from older Aza, how she says goodbye to Davis, and the callback to the "saying goodbye" line just killed me. It was the perfect ending. I think the book did slow down toward the end, and I couldn't imagine a better ending.

I just think this book is perfect. That's it.