Review of The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow

The Everlasting involves jaunts through multiple versions of the same story, as our fantastic main protagonists shift and change, bravely outsmart those who would control them, dare to hope for a future together, and fight dark forces until the bitter end. This is adventure-heavy, sometimes tender, and always intriguing. I loved it.

Sir Una Everlasting was a legendary knight in the kingdom of Dominion, an orphan who rose to greatness and died in service to her queen. Her bravery is the stuff of fables, but her real story is no longer remembered.

Centuries after her death, spindly, awkward, cowardly historian Owen Mallory unearths her story--and becomes inexorably intertwined with the events of Una's life as they occur in the past.

The queen Una faithfully served is using Una for her own dastardly purposes, but the extent of her manipulation and ambitions has been hidden--until now. She will break Una before allowing her to be free.

Harrow's tale involves multiple do-overs and attempts to shift events and alter reality--while the unlikely couple of Una and Owen fall in love again and again.

If Una and Owen are going to change the way history is remembered--or have a chance at a life together--they'll have to work within their queen's bonds, yet reimagine the possibilities for the world around them and their union.

The Everlasting is filled with rich adventure; twisty jaunts through time; tragedy and loss; dark turns, boundless hope; messy, happy discoveries; outsmarting those in power; and noble victories. It ticked a million boxes for me as a reader.

This is the type of romantic fantasy I adore. No swooning, childish behavior, or foolishness, just hard-won connections, deep character development, bravely defying expectations, and absolutely lovely love. This broke my heart and mended it over and over, in the best ways possible.

I love Alix E. Harrow's writing style and worldbuilding, and I loved The Everlasting.

I received a prepublication version of this title, published October 28, courtesy of NetGalley and Tor Publishing Group.

More Great Books from Alix E. Harrow

Alix E. Harrow is also the author of the wonderful The Once and Future Witches, Starling House, and The Ten Thousand Doors of January, as well as A Spindle Splintered, A Mirror Mended, The Autobiography of a Traitor and a Half-Savage, and Fractured Fables.