Tuck Everlasting

Tuck Everlasting
Author: Natalie Babbitt
Pages: 164
Genre: Classic
Published: 1975
Rating: 2/5 stars

Description

Doomed to - or blessed with - eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they can. When ten-year-old Winnie Foster stumbles on their secret, the Tucks take her home and explain why living forever at one age is less a blessing that it might seem. Complications arise when Winnie is followed by a stranger who wants to market the spring water for a fortune.

My thoughts

I always find it difficult to review classics. I find that I may not be the right person to judge such works. I feel like my opinion does not madder because these stories stand the test of time. who am I to judge them. But here I go.

I thought that this was a great choice for me because I loved the movie, I watched it multiple times. But the book is in a lot of ways different. I sadly enjoyed the movie more than the book. In the movie Winnie stayed a longer time with the Tucks. In the book just for one day. The bond she has with the Tuck's is much more believable if she was with them for a month instead of just one day. And you saw that relationship develop more in the movie.

I also liked the romance that was put in the movie. In the book Winnie is younger and it would have been strange if she got in a relationship with a boy 7 years older than her (she is 10 in the book and he 17).

But the basis of how the Tuck's became who they are is the seem. Those parts I really liked. Don't get me wrong this book is not bad. It was just ok. I hooped it was more liked the movie that I loved, but it was a different story.