A review by lapetite
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

challenging emotional funny mysterious reflective fast-paced
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

"You can’t have living without dying. So you can’t call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road."

Oh wow, I did not expect to feel so sad when I finished this book, and yet, here I am. I am pretty sure this book would've decimated my heart if I had read it when I was a kid. One of the few times I feel happy to have read a classic.

It's a super quick read and the prose is lovely (those descriptions are so fucking dreamy!). I really loved Winnie as the main character, which I've sadly realized doesn't happen very often (I am always ambivalent about MCs). She was so real, so dynamic, so loyal, I just wanted to hug her. The Tucks did give me weird vibes the whole way but, in the end, it was Miles and Angus that warmed my heart. Jesse and all his manic pixie dream boy-ness can take a hike.