This Book Goes all the Way Down


Turtles All the Way Down
By John Green

Review
By Henry Merola

The book honestly had promise to be good, but it slowly gets on your nerves. Turtles All the Way Down is about a girl named Ava and her friend, Daisy, looking for a crooked CEO of a company, Davis Pikett. Many flashbacks are revealed when Ava goes through her childhood while looking for information that will get her $100,000. 

A main theme is childhood. It seems to flow quite well when they first do it. Unfortunately the second time, when Ava has reunited with Davis's son, Davis. You'd expect to read about how they interact, but she has a flashback to when she and Davis were kids and had a party, something that the book reiterated again, which was repetitive. Also, readers should she what they're doing in the present, we could care less about their past.

I haven’t read the whole book, but what I have read isn’t that great. There are so many flashbacks, little description, and the pacing can go at a snail's pace. However, what John Green does right is really good. Things such as the dialogue and character seems real and genuine. I wouldbt recomend this, but if you like a good mystery and don't mind having to get through a lot of flashbacks and slow parts, you'll enjoy this.

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