Aza mentions Harold as though it is a real person. It stayed in the garage for eight long years until Aza turned 16 and inherited it.
In fact, her dad had named him Harold, and her mom never sold the car. Harold is a 16-year-old Toyota Corolla, painted in "mystic teal mica" colour with an engine that clanks in a steady rhythm, like the beating of an immaculate metallic heart. The way she describes her car deserves a second read. The two made up for Aza’s obsession with gut bacteria.Īnother thing I liked about the book was the characterisation of Aza’s car, Harold. Green made up for Aza’s flaws by creating likeable characters in Daisy and Davis, especially the latter. A huge credit for this goes to Green as he has conceptualised the character close to real. Initially, Aza, who is suffering from an anxiety syndrome and is on pills (she is constantly worried about hosting a colony of bacteria, especially Clostridium difficile, in her gut), irritated me no end but as the story progressed, I started accepting her with all her flaws. Pickett believes that through investigating the Tuatara’s secrets, humans can learn the key to longevity and will be able to understand the evolution of life on Earth in a much better way. It is a kind of a living dinosaur that can live up to 150 years and who will inherit Russell Pickett’s billions after his death. She convinces Aza to rekindle her association with his son, Davis Pickett, whom Aza had befriended at a Sad Camp (a camp for kids with dead parents) in the summer holidays of fifth and sixth grade.ĭavis and his younger brother, Noah, live in Pickett mansion along with a zoologist who looks after their father’s Tuatara, a genetically distinct creature that dates back to the Mesozoic era, around 200 million years ago.
Daisy is eager to claim the hundred-thousand-dollar reward if she can provide any clue about the disappearance of the fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett (founder of Pickett Engineering). The story starts with 16-year-old Aza Holmes who studies in White River High School and Aza’s best friend, Daisy Ramirez, a fearless girl, a go-getter, who calls her Holmesy. And I must say I’m not disappointed though I found the female protagonist a bit depressive. So, when I got a chance to review his latest book, Turtles All The Way Down, I simply lapped it up. It made me greedy towards acquiring all his books. I fell in love with John Green’s writing when I read his The Fault in our Stars.
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