sometimesbryce 's review for:

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

5.0

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Fear not, men: If Natalie Babbitt’s novel teaches us anything, it’s that size doesn’t matter. Sitting at 135 pages, what the book lacks in length it makes up for in depth. Every inch of Babbitt’s work is coated in haunting and rich imagery, and a plot that knows when to move and when to linger. If you’re looking for a lazy Saturday read that’s as sure to entertain you as it is to inspire you on what it means to live and die, Tuck Everlasting is the book for you. It’s about three seemingly random events in the first week of August: a man walking down the road in a yellow suit, a family with a dangerous secret reuniting, and a young girl talking to a toad.