A review by youreadtoomuch
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

adventurous emotional sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

 
A straightforward book that tells you everything that will happen in the first few pages. Winnie wants to run away when she meets two strangers. One - comes and goes. The other is Jesse Tuck. The Tucks take Winnie and explain they gained immortality from a spring in her family wood. Our mysterious, unnamed stranger overhears and gets to scheming his way to finding this spring. 

This book resolves itself within 3 days and we don’t waste any time. Beginning, middle, and end pass by so quickly that it's no wonder this book relies on not being taken so seriously. We don’t learn much about the spring but we learn enough about the person Winnie is and will be. She’s loyal and naive but so full of love that she takes the Tucks warnings against immortality to heart. Which is incredible when you find yourself finishing this silly book, continuing into the epilogue and getting hit with this overwhelming grief grounded in the reality of what it means to be immortal. That was great.

 
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