A girl Aza who has spiral thinking and germaphobic want to get out of her head. She has a best friend who write fan fiction of Star Wars Wookiee Chewbacca.

The story starts with a rich man was on the run from the police. The police has a ten thousands dollars reward for clue to find him.

Aza knew he man's son Davis. So they pretend to be just happened to be in the area and trying to clue to find the man and get the reward at first. Of course, that's not what they got. Aza starts dating Davis. 

The story is kind of sweet as it is into poetry and fan fictions and girl being depressed and couldn't help herself or get away from her though.

That's the good part. Even though it is a lot of grey it is still a good read. All John Green's fans would not be disappointed. 

I found this book very hard to rate. Even now, I can’t fully decide if I liked it or if I didn’t. Now, don’t get me wrong… this wasn’t a bad book at all. Green’s style of writing for this novel is beautiful. I can’t tell you if that’s how he writes all of his novel’s, because this was my first. Nonetheless, it was beautiful and I thoroughly enjoyed it. There were certain paragraphs that I kept re-reading because they were filled with meaningful quotes that I loved. Though I didn’t care much for Aza, Green did an amazing job portraying her mental illness. I’m positive that many people out there were able to relate and connect with her on a deeper level. I, however, wasn’t able to make that connection with her. I guess it was because that’s all she was to me, just a girl with a mental illness. I didn’t get to know anything else about her to really draw me to her.  

In conclusion, no, this was not the book for me. Will I read another of John Green’s novels? Most likely, as I didn’t HATE this one. Would I recommend this book to other’s? I would. After all, no two persons ever read the same book.

“Everyone wanted me to feed them that story—darkness to light, weakness to strength, broken to whole. I wanted it, too.” ― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

If I was 14, I'd have adored this book and thought it was brilliant. I'm not, so it was not meant for me and that made it a bit harder to judge. I can only be me, so here goes:

Nicely, this book is NOT a well-worn yet unrealistic "moving story of courage and hope bringing darkness into light with a complete cure of mental illness along the way." It's NOT the perfect YA romance where everyone skips off to (somehow free?) college at the very best schools in the world while still maintaining their young romances. It's not a lot of clichés, but it contains others. The most favored quote at Goodreads is one that is well-worn in therapy circles ("Your now is not your forever.")

I'm not exactly sure what it IS, but I'm not entirely sure that matters. If pressed, I'd call it a mental health story, I guess.

The portrayal of mental illness was pleasantly realistic. Not debilitated a hundred percent of the time, the main character Aza Holmes manages to have good grades, friends, drive and not drool while still being under the care of meds and a shrink. But we still see her life disrupted by this illness. The hovering mom was a nice touch too.

The friendships seem real and very high school/teenaged. Intense and fun, silly and emotional - real. Also, I love the title. I hoped when we got to the reason for it, it might have a little more impact, but it worked well enough for me. There are added plot lines in this novel, but if you've read other John Green, you'll notice similarities between Aza and what is usually the male character (Quentin, Colin, or Miles) and find a bit of Margo, Alaska and/or Katherine in Davis Pickett.

These these teenagers also can quote poetry and literature while analyzing the nature of self within the universe. Even now I don't possess the presence to have Edna St. Vincent Millay tripping off my tongue whilst on a date. The teenage romance was realistic in all but the way they wrapped it up -- which again reminds me of John Green. I can't get mad at an author for writing what he always writes. Do I wish he'd stretch a bit more over these many years? Of course, but I knew this was his book when I opened it.

Back to the romance: teenagers are usually known for their hormones and the ability of said hormones to make them emotional wrecks. Our main teenagers are nothing like that. They are more adult about romance than many adult divorcing couples I've known through the years (c.f. Paper Towns.)

“...no one ever says good-bye unless they want to see you again.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

Somewhat odd for Mr. Green, there is a loose mystery that could have worked if the extent of it wasn't internet searches. It served as a device to get Aza and Daisy on the same ground with Davis, and give Davis something about which to be wistful and brooding. All of which needed to happen for this book to be...this book, but it is hard not to see it as purely a way to give a leg up to other themes. As it is, there's a half-baked mystery hanging around the edges of a YA philosophical think-piece.

For me Daisy Ramirez nearly steals the show. As irritating as she could possibly be, she's probably annoying because she's the most realistic teenager of the bunch. Everything about her is absurd, including her job, and because of that, she's pretty awesome. The only thing that made me want to kill the author was the use of "Holmesy" as her moniker for Aza in literally every single conversation they had -- often multiple times. It's way too close to "homie" though it's probably a nod to Sherlock given that half-baked mystery I just mentioned. There's something weird about making a character with a Latino-sounding name the poor kid who uses something too close to street slang and exists as as a side-kick to the main WASP that doesn't sit well with me, but I loved Daisy nonetheless.

All in all I liked this but it didn't blow my skirt up. It wasn't as good as I had hoped (yet another reason to wait many years before reading books with buzz.) It wasn't bad. I'm glad I own a copy on audio because that will make it easier to revisit on a long drive someday, and I have a few younger people in my family who will enjoy listening to it.

I'm really glad I got around to reading this, and I read as part of a postal book club with some book buddies. I may well have skipped this mega-popular book (I like rebelling like that) unless we had picked it, and I hadn't actually read any John Green before either. It was such a hyped book (what's with the turtles? the spiral on the cover?), that I was immediately suspicious, so I'm happy to say it was so much better than I expected it to be.
Since so many people in the book world HAVE read it, I won't summarize the premise, but I will speak a bit about the topic of mental illness, since that's the core issue at hand within the novel. Because of my own past struggles with mental illness (particularly depression and anxiety, including intrusive thoughts, which the main character Aza has severe issues with), I connected strongly with the story and Aza. I too suffered some loss and struggled with grief. I personally sought out help from Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and tried countless medications, all of which was so vivid in my mind when reading, and I remembered my old battles of the past quite well. I wanted to reach out and be the chorus to tell Aza that she would indeed survive this.
Aza was extremely blessed to have fierce love from her mom and her best friend Daisy, and while I appreciate the inner look at the battle against the illness, there are no names put on it, nor many distinct solutions pursued. The extreme societal stigma surrounding mental illness is also not discussed; is this a good or necessary thing? I couldn't decide. Maybe there wasn't a place for it here.
I loved the character Davis, and I loved the connections in this book. Overall, I'm happy I read this and loved the look at Aza's struggle and the bravery it takes to write about this topic, but the message is that there is hope, and that there is help. I have TOO much to say about this stuff so I'll shut up about it now!
PS. I'm glad no turtles were harmed in the writing of this novel.