I could fill up the entire character limit of this 10 times and it still wouldn't be able to accurately tell how much this book means to me. 
 I went into this book very skeptical and exceptionally nervous because John Green hasn't published anything since 2012 and that is the last time that I read something by him. I enjoyed all of his works when I first read them, but I was 15-16 at that time so I was worried that coming into this novel as a 21 year old with different reading tastes and a more critical lens, that I wouldn't enjoy this book that I've been anticipating since it was announced that it was coming out 
 I was also nervous when I found out that this book would feature a main character with OCD. As someone with OCD, I take the representation of this mental illness 
 VERY seriously, and I know that John Green was writing from his own personal experience with OCD so I should have known the representation was in good hands, but a major part of me was still nervous. 
 I was wonderfully surprised by everything that this novel had to offer. The characters were fleshed out and flawed and so authentic and I give that credit to John Green with all of his works. He allows his characters to be selfish or to have struggles that teenagers actually experience, and it all feels so right. This time was no different and I think this is one of the best examples of that out of all his works. I loved Aza and I saw myself in her so intensely and the way that she lives with her OCD is jarring and painful to read, but it's genuine and it's raw and to date it's the absolute best representation of OCD that I have seen in a novel. 
 I also was concerned that this would be a love-cure novel because John Green does tend to lean more toward the romantic sides when he writes his novels and his past works have been filled wit similar tropes and bordering on including Manic Pixie Dream Girls, but this one did not let me down in showing that love and relationships are not a cure for mental illness in the slightest and can actually further perpetuate one's struggle with their mental health. 
 This novel was brilliant and poignant and one of my favorites that I've read this year, and John Green has completely blown me away, yet again.