The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow
Review
I’m the odd one out about this one. I was honestly bored to death while reading this. I really really want to like it and I tried! but reading essentially the same thing over and over again with just a few details changed each time isn’t my thing. It was a struggle. I couldn’t wait for it to end. I haven’t read anything else by this author and I’m not sure I want to now.
❝ They say one day the knight and the scholar simply laid themselves down among the tangled roots, hand in hand, and did not rise again. They say it ends where it began: beneath the yew tree.❞
❝ I loved you by then, or would soon, or always had. It was inevitable, foretold: When I look up, I will see the sky; when I fight, I will win; when I meet Owen Mallory, I will love him. ❞
❝ Let us lie here forever. Let us be buried as wild things are, by tooth and claw and worm. Let the grasses grow up through the sockets of our eyes. Let them find us is seven years or seventy, and let their brows furrow, because they cannot tell my bones from yours.❞
Blurb
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.


