The Everlasting
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Instant New York Times bestseller • USA Today bestseller • National Indie bestseller • Locus Award Winner
October 2025 LibraryReads Hall of Fame Pick • November 2025 Indie Next Pick!
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.
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.
"Alix E. Harrow is an exceptional, undeniable talent." —Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six
"An utter masterpiece… I loved every single page." —Rachel Gillig, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of One Dark Window
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Readers say *The Everlasting* by Alix E. Harrow features beautiful, poetic prose and a complex, time-bending narrative that intertwines history, myth,...
What I got was… boredom. Deep, lingering, “I could reorganize my spice cabinet mid-chapter and not miss anything” boredom.
Sir Una Everlasting is built up as this towering legend, and I wanted to be invested. I really did. But the story kept feeling like it was circling its own myth instead of actually doing anything with it. Meanwhile, Owen Mallory is technically present, though emotionally he felt like he was drifting through the narrative apologizing (and crying) for his existence.
Also, we need to talk about the persistent trend of confusing “making the female character strong” with “making every male character mildly pathetic, spiritually useless, or narratively kneecapped.” Because empowerment doesn’t require flattening everyone else into cardboard cutouts. It’s possible to write strength without turning the supporting cast into cautionary tales in poor posture.
By the halfway point, I wasn’t questioning fate or history or legend—I was questioning my ability to stay awake. The time loop energy was strong, though, because it really did feel like I was reading the same emotional beat over and over again, just in slightly different medieval lighting.
It wanted to be mythic and moving. It mostly felt like a long, beautifully written sigh that forgot to go anywhere.
One star. Mostly for effort. And for my own endurance, which should honestly qualify as a side quest achievement.
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