Turtles All The Way Down

When I read this book in class, everyone around me started telling me that they have read the book. I don't remember the reactions towards the books, but I know it discouraged me a little because I want my own reaction to the book so I don't get any like spoilers. Little did I know that the author, John Green, wrote "The Fault in our Stars", which I heard a lot about, but never really cared to watch it. Anyway, my interest in the book is as follows.
"Turtles All The Way Down" by John Green is a young adult novel that widely revolves around the mind and life of a teenage girl and her OCD. Aza Holmes has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and is trying to live a normal life her mom and her best-friend, Daisy. Aza and her mom live in Indianapolis and they have a good "mother-daughter" relationship. The other relationship in her life is, of course, her bestie. Daisy is a very eccentric person who loves to do nothing but talk about her life with Aza. But, with Aza's OCD, she tends to get distracted during those talk, and the consequences of that soon trail behind her. In Indianapolis, news reports have said that there is billion dollar fugitive by the name of Russell Pickett. Russell is a CEO and founder of Pickett Engineering, a top business, but the business continuously gets sued, so he disappears without a trace. There is also a $100,000 reward for anyone who could provide info on his recent whereabouts.
Daisy immediately hops onto the case and drags Aza along with her. While researching about the case, the two remembered that Russell Pickett had two sons, David and Noah. Noah was younger, but David was around their age and had been childhood friends with them in the past. They go to the Pickett house to investigate more, but Aza is reconnects with David and they soon date.
The savings of Russell Pickett and the company was left into the research of a Tuatara (lizard). Knowing this, they don't get any closer to solving the case. David finds out their true intentions for their visits and, in a annoyed manner, gives Aza $100,000 in cash, in a sports bag. They disconnect, and now Aza and Daisy are rich. During this whole search for answers, Aza's OCD gets bad and she constantly has to see her therapist.
Daisy, on her of time, writes fan-fictions of Star Wars' Chewbacca and Rey. But, within the stories, Daisy creates a problematic character that resembles Aza. While driving, the two begin to argue about how much Aza doesn't know about Daisy. They crash and get into a terrible accident, sending only Aza to the hospital. After a few weeks in the hospital, Aza has an anxiety attack and passes out from drinking hand sanitizer, due to her OCD of being free from C. diff (Clostridium difficile). Soon, after her recovery, her and Daisy rekindle their relationship.  They continue with the case, and discover a bad smell coming from the Pickett house area. They discover Russell's body in the sewers and solve the case of the missing fugitive.
The 286 page book is something that really gets my mind thinking. The author does a great job of portraying the mind of someone with a mental illness and that's what makes me read the book. It's relatable because of the teenagers' struggles, but the beginning of the book was un-informal because it started out in Aza's own thoughts, without me knowing her as a character yet. Other than that, the plot that Russell Pickett left his money to his lizard instead of his two sons interested me.