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essentialsaltes) wrote2023-06-27 11:45 am
essentialsaltes) wrote2023-06-27 11:45 am
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
Turtles all the way down is a young adultish novel that I picked up at the Enigma book swap a while back.
Part young romance, part teen buddies mystery solving, our main character is also distinguished by obtrusive thoughts and other OCD symptoms that get in the way of her life. Apparently the author (probably best known for The Fault in Our Stars) also suffers from OCD, so the descriptive elements ring true to life and are fairly terrifying. I wonder whether people with OCD would be helped by reading a sympathetic treatment or harmed by echoing their own difficulties in a feedback loop.
Well-drawn characters and interaction, but even if the mystery was not really the reason for the book (the real treasure was the friends we made along the way!) the resolution of the mystery was pretty lackluster.
Part young romance, part teen buddies mystery solving, our main character is also distinguished by obtrusive thoughts and other OCD symptoms that get in the way of her life. Apparently the author (probably best known for The Fault in Our Stars) also suffers from OCD, so the descriptive elements ring true to life and are fairly terrifying. I wonder whether people with OCD would be helped by reading a sympathetic treatment or harmed by echoing their own difficulties in a feedback loop.
Well-drawn characters and interaction, but even if the mystery was not really the reason for the book (the real treasure was the friends we made along the way!) the resolution of the mystery was pretty lackluster.