Perfection.
John Green is just amazing. He GETS teenagers. My daughter has been telling me to read this book for several years, and finally this weekend I just said, "Well, bring it downstairs for me!" and I dove in.
Aza Holmes is a teenager with OCD, a best friend name Daisy who writes Star Wars Fan Fiction, a widowed mother who is worried sick about her, and SO. MANY. THOUGHTS.
The way Green describes Aza's anxiety about germs, the way her thoughts take over, is overwhelming and scary and eye-opening and just TRUE. The way Green presents her friendship with Daisy as one where they each just totally understand and put up with each other yet still get seriously annoyed with each other too is also TRUE. Young love must be a part, but is not the whole part, of a JG novel and throw in a missing billionaire and his troubled son and you got yourself a John Hughes film written by John Green.
Way too many quotable moments here - so much wisdom for life. I read this one so fast I didn't even stop to take notes, I just got totally sucked in. Plus, I fell in love with Harold. ;-) Tua, not so much.
I loved Daisy's nickname for Aza. I felt for the loss of her dad and for Davis. I really felt for Aza's anxiety and how she knew she was "crazy" but still could not talk herself out of the crazy behaviors, and how she hated that those behaviors were affecting her life. I loved the ending and the peek at the future. But mostly I just loved reading this one. My daughter was so right.
And now I want to add John Green to my Completist Challenge. Two down, about 10 to go!!! (I have read The Fault in Our Stars. I have also seen Paper Towns, the movie, but that can't count as a book, right? #tbiab #ifykyk)
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