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Title: Turtles All the Way Down

Author: John Green

Young Adult

Form: Hardcover

Book Description: Turtles All the Way Down

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

Kindle | Paperback | Hardcover

Sixteen-year-old Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there’s a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Russell Pickett’s son, Davis.

Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective, while also living within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.

In his long-awaited return, John Green, the acclaimed, award-winning author of Looking for Alaska and The Fault in Our Stars, shares Aza’s story with shattering, unflinching clarity in this brilliant novel of love, resilience, and the power of lifelong friendship.

Book Review ~ Turtles All the Way Down

John Green made me cry again! Another great book from him, and this one’s packed with interesting conversations, and more. - Ara @ My Book and My Coffee

Aza is a very brave girl. She just doesn’t know it yet. This is my personal opinion. Reading this book, you have to keep an open mind. There may be some parts that you don’t or won’t understand but it will make sense as you continue reading.

I understood Aza’s character 1) because anxiety is something that I believe we all endure from time to time 2) and because the author really made it sure that any reader will understand what is going on. Mental health should be taken seriously, people.

There were times when I got so frustrated about Aza’s situation. I just like for everything to be okay with her. I badly wanted to be her friend most of the time in that book. It's funny to think that one would want to be friends with a fictional character but this book is that effective. And you know, I would listen to her non-stop because she needs that. She would need someone to listen to her and not judge her in the process. Someone that will actually hear her. I am not a professional and so I cannot really get her the help that she needs but I'll be that friend who'll stick around. She needs one of those.

I love how the story was written overall. I love that I was reminded that happiness or being happy in general is some sort of progress. And that it’s okay to be clueless sometimes of what’s going to happen next. I, ‘a singular proper noun’ will go on. This book is inspiring. Go read it.

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Okay, so latest news! M J Lee recently published a crime fiction novel, Where the Truth Lies. Isn't this amazing? Take a look at the book cover and details below.

Where the Truth Lies by M J Lee

Crime Fiction

Publisher: Canelo

Release Date: October 22, 2018

The case was closed. Until people started dying… The unputdownable first DI Ridpath crime thriller from bestseller MJ Lee

A killer in total control. A detective on the edge. A mystery that HAS to be solved.

DI Thomas Ridpath was on the up in the Manchester CID: a promising young detective whose first case involved capturing a notorious serial killer. But ten years later he’s recovering from a serious illness and on the brink of being forced out of the police. Then people start dying: tortured, murdered, in an uncanny echo of Ridpath’s first case.

As the investigation intensifies, old bodies go missing, records can’t be found and the murder count grows. Caught in a turf war between the police and the coroner’s office, digging up skeletons some would rather forget, Ridpath is caught in a race against time: a race to save his career, his marriage… And lives.

When a detective goes missing everything is on the line. Can Ridpath close the case and save his colleague?

About the Author:

M J Lee has spent most of his adult life writing in one form or another. As a university researcher in history, he wrote pages of notes on reams of obscure topics. As a social worker with Vietnamese refugees, he wrote memoranda. And, as the creative director of an advertising agency, he has written print and press ads, TV commercials, short films and innumerable backs of cornflake packets and hotel websites.

He has spent 25 years of his life working outside the north of England, in London, Hong Kong, Taipei, Singapore, Bangkok and Shanghai, winning advertising awards from Cannes, One Show, D&AD, New York and the United Nations.

While working in Shanghai, he loved walking through the old quarters of that amazing city, developing the idea behind a series of crime novels featuring Inspector Pyotr Danilov, set in the 1920s.

When he’s not writing, he splits his time between the UK and Asia, taking pleasure in playing with his daughter, practising downhill ironing, single-handedly solving the problem of the French wine lake, and wishing he were George Clooney.

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