Turtles All The Way Down - Book Review

A simple and straight forward book on mental illness, this book presents to us the theme of mental illness intimately and the story revolves around it.

This is a serious story about teenagers stuck inside their own self who want liberation from who they are. The void that sucks them into is pulling them, and they are struggling every second to survive, but despite all these issues, no one can help them to fight their demons.

A girl normal from outside, but inside her head, she is stuck. She wonders about herself and finds herself unable to trust what she sees; she doesn’t trust herself and wonders whether her whole life is just a fictional story and she a character from that fictional world. A poor girl with huge dreams who want to be pampered for once.

A billionaire’s son, who craves for his dead mother and love of his father, is waiting for his father to come back from wherever he has gone missing. He hates his father but still craves for his father’s love. A rich boy with lots of money but no one to love wants just the true love from any soul he can find.

There is love, there is mystery, there is fight, there is injury, there is anxiety and there is restlessness, and above them all, there is pain. This is what binds the characters together.

Characters of Aza and Davis, the girl and the boy, are well developed and their mental faculties explained very well. Daisy is everywhere but the character could’ve used some more words focussed solely on her life. Noah’s character has turned into just a sidekick although he means a lot to Davis. Even though he is a sidekick, he leaves profound effect on the story and thus in few words he is able to leave his impact upon the mind of readers. Mikhail seemed just another of the background character to me.

This book has some of the fabulous quotes that'll leave you thinking over the words, again and again. I have compiled a few of them from Google.

The issue raised in this book is of utmost importance. The mental health and issues should be taken just as seriously as tuberculosis. It requires a little bit more awareness to become common for people to open up their hearts and their feeling so that they can be cured. This story portrayed how one might feel from inside, and the thinking process of several of normal looking people from inside.

Overall, this is a story full of love and pain which makes you wonder about yourself and time. Throughout the story, time is what the characters seemed to lack and that’s what they actually wanted. They wanted some time for themselves so that they can stay how and what they are instead of rushing in life.

This was a mixture of every emotion encountered till now. John Green successfully squeezed out a part of my love for this beauty as well.