She's always late, but she's really nice and lovable, and becomes sort of a mother figure to the kids throughout the journey. I also liked Lill, the waitress who joins them along the way after her car breaks down and she gets fired for being late.

My favorite character was probably Mibs, or maybe Will Junior. And of course, I had forgotten a lot of the little details that add so much to the story. I did remember some of the key elements of the book, but not the most important of all - the ending. If that made any sense.Įven though I'd read Savvy before, it still kind of felt like I was reading it for the first time. Set in the Midwest, the setting hardly seems ideal, yet it works, because you're not distracted by some place that's too busy instead, you can focus on the plot and what's going on in the book. The characters are all really interesting, and the plot is so simple, yet so meaningful. It's deceptively short, and once you get into it, it's hard to put down. Savvy is one of those really easy books that you'll keep on rereading. That's part of what makes the book so compelling. Of course, the idea of a savvy isn't realistic, but in all other respects, the book is realistic. Savvy is one of those books that should be fantasy, but reads like realistic fiction. So she sets out in a truck which she thinks is going to the hospital, along with the pastor's children, Fish, her hurricane dealing brother, and Samson, her quiet seven year old brother. And in between we're happy and sad, we feel love and we feel fear, we eat and we sleep and we hurt like everyone else.' But on the day before Mibs's own thirteenth birthday, her father gets into a car accident, and she becomes convinced that her savvy can help wake him up. But really, they're just like other people, as Mibs tells one of the other characters, 'We get born, and sometime later we die. Savvy is the story of Mibs Beaumont, who lives in a family where everyone has a special gift, or savvy, that manifests itself when they turn thirteen. I read Savvy perhaps three or four years ago, and I remember loving it.

Savvy by ingrid law audiobook