⚔️📜The Everlasting 📜⚔️

• Alix E Harrow @alix.e.harrow

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A lady knight and a bespectacled scholar.

When a historical scholar unearths an ancient book about the legend of Sir Una Everlasting, whose sainthood built a nation, he steps into a time loop that spans millennia. (Think Joan of Arc meets Arthurian knights).

Owen Mallory has been fascinated by Una by since he was a boy. Her story follows him from the yew tree in his childhood home to a bloody war to academia. There are many conflicting accounts of Una’s life, non firsthand and each confounding the other. Was she an invincible knight or a pawn in a monarch’s games? A figment of legend or merely mortal woman?

There were several lines that I reread over and again, photographing them to remember them. It was unexpectedly humorous in places. There were so many sardonic, dry one-liners and incredibly creative similes and metaphors – a personal favourite ‘he looked like an escapee from a painting of a fox hunt’.

The writing is so poetic. Only a few pages in, my jaw had dropped and I immediately knew this was going to be unlike anything I had ever read. An epic tale of life and everything life entails: love, grief, ambition, power, parenthood and history.

If you were a fan of Our Infinite Fates and the reincarnation aspect of that story, you will LOVE this. I have already ordered everything in Alix E Harrow’s backlist – that’s how much I loved this.

The Everlasting is out now! And I cannot urge you strongly enough to read it. Thank you so immensely much to @bookbreakuk for the proof copy!

Have you read any Alix E Harrow? I certainly will be devouring everything she’s ever written over the next few weeks, so prepare for a spam of reviews.

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