The Everlasting
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4.6 • 186 Ratings
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Publisher Description
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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APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
The line between how history is made and how it’s remembered becomes gloriously blurry in this gorgeous, often poignant fantasy novel. The nation of Dominion was forged ages ago through the courageous service of the knight Sir Una Everlasting. Her story is so old that it’s become a legend, and Professor Owen Mallory is in love with that legend. But when a magical object sends him back in time to write a firsthand account of Sir Everlasting, they both buckle under the pressure of personal responsibility and legendary mythos—again and again. Una turns out to be a very real, honorable, battle-scarred person whom Mallory comes to adore even more than the folktale. And yet, according to the legend, she must die heroically so Dominion can be founded. Alix E. Harrow brilliantly leads us to contemplate the true meaning of Una’s ultimate sacrifice through a time loop that forces her (and the befuddled Mallory) to relive countless iterations of it. Smart and compelling, The Everlasting is a fantastic tale about how stories shape us.
Customer Reviews
An ache you can’t put down
This book made me nauseous with feeling. There were times I felt a pit in my stomach that could only be solved by putting the book down and reminding myself of my own present day. Equal to the despair, were the feelings of joy brought on by the beauty on the pages.
The Once and Future…
An incredible, funny, horrifying, visceral, poetic, and loving reimagining of the Arthurian legend, of how stories reach through time, and about what remains long after flesh gives way.
I say this as someone who fell for the Arthurian tragedy before I could read; and then read every word I could:
Mallory (and Monmouth, and all those who came after them) should be honored by Harrow’s reinvention of the once and future king.
Loved it
So amazing