The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow
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Title: The Everlasting
Author: Alix E. Harrow
Publisher: Tor Books 2025
Genre: Fantasy
Pages: 320
Rating: 2/5 stars
Reading Challenges: Unread Shelf; Top 100; BOTM
Where I Got It: Book of the Month October 2025
*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.*
Oh my goodness… this was a complete mess for me. I was so incredibly excited about a new Harrow book. I have really enjoyed her previous books. The first chapter was fascinating and I was very excited to read this knight tale. But then the actually story started and I hated it. The style is very strange. Told in a very repetitive and oddly constructed way that found be very annoying throughout. I truly hated the weird second person point of view that came and went. Plus there was so much telling and not much showing. I really dislike books that focus on telling and not showing. And the characters were so hard to like! Owen was a stiff board most of the book. He was such a stereotype that I could not find him interesting. Una was just so mysterious and standoffish. Even when they started to actually open up a bit, I was bored by them.
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