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The Everlasting
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From Alix E. Harrow, the New York Times bestselling author of Starling House, comes a moving and genre-defying quest about the lady-knight whose legend built a nation, and the cowardly historian sent back through time to make sure she plays her part–even if it breaks his heart.From Alix E. Harrow, the New York TimesNew York Times bestselling author of Starling HouseStarling House, comes a moving and genre-defying quest about the lady-knight whose legend built a nation, and the cowardly historian sent back through time to make sure she plays her part–even if it breaks his heart.
Sir Una Everlasting was Dominion’s greatest hero: the orphaned girl who became a knight, who died for queen and country. Her legend lives on in songs and stories, in children’s books and recruiting posters―but her life as it truly happened has been forgotten.
Centuries later, Owen Mallory―failed soldier, struggling scholar―falls in love with the tale of Una Everlasting. Her story takes him to war, to the archives―and then into the past itself. Una and Owen are tangled together in time, bound to retell the same story over and over again, no matter what it costs.
But that story always ends the same way. If they want to rewrite Una’s legend―if they want to tell a different story--they’ll have to rewrite history itself.
Sir Una Everlasting was Dominion’s greatest hero: the orphaned girl who became a knight, who died for queen and country. Her legend lives on in songs and stories, in children’s books and recruiting posters―but her life as it truly happened has been forgotten.
Centuries later, Owen Mallory―failed soldier, struggling scholar―falls in love with the tale of Una Everlasting. Her story takes him to war, to the archives―and then into the past itself. Una and Owen are tangled together in time, bound to retell the same story over and over again, no matter what it costs.
But that story always ends the same way. If they want to rewrite Una’s legend―if they want to tell a different story--they’ll have to rewrite history itself.
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“The Everlasting reads like a haunting fairy tale, lyrical, intimate, and slightly unsettling. The use of second-person narration is something I rarely see, and it creates this closeness that makes the story feel haunting.
There isn’t a strong, fast-moving plot. It lingers instead, on repetition, on emotion, on memory. It’s not driven by events so much as by voice and atmosphere, like a tale being passed down.
The prose is so beautiful, sometimes poetic, with a quiet wit that balances its heavier themes. It’s also genuinely funny, especially through Owen’s perspective, who might already be one of my favorite characters.
At its core, it’s a love story, but not a tropey one. If anything, it feels like the opposite, almost working with reverse tropes. The way they love and choose each other is so incredibly beautiful and sad.
I liked the inevitability of Owen and Una’s romance, but I couldn’t fully connect to it. I loved them more as unique individuals than as a pair. And while it’s a love story, it’s also doing much more beneath the surface.
It weaves in themes of empire, fascism, and nationalism, and really interrogates how myths and stories are used to shape history and identity. The tale of Una, especially, is more than just lore: it’s part of that larger commentary on how narratives can be controlled, repeated, and turned into something political.
Overall, it’s hauntingly beautiful, a little disorienting, and very intentional in its storytelling. Not something you read for plot, but something you experience for its voice, its themes, and the way it quietly questions what’s real, what’s remembered, and what’s been shaped for us to believe.”
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