Lynnie 
young adult, contemporary fiction
I’m typically a big fan of John Green’s. His characters give me hope for teenagers and I generally find his stories endearing and relatable. That is not how I felt about Turtles All The Way Down however. This book felt oddly contrived- a girl with mental health problems, a missing billionaire whose son our main character may or may not like or even love, some best friends and throw-away secondary characters... and in the end, nothing really happened, which might be the worse part of all. It felt as though Green threw darts at a board to create characters & situations because none of it really ever made sense to me.
I was never really engaged in this story, mostly I just felt sorry for the characters. There’s no doubt they are experiencing serious trauma in their lives but rather than learning something from them I just felt like a creeper watching them in their misery. No thanks.
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