Book Review – The Everlasting by Alix E Harrow
The Everlasting by Alix E Harrow
Fantasy | Adult | 320 pages
Published on 30 October 2025 by Pan Macmillan
Synopsis
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.
A LEGEND. A LIE. A LOVE STORY.
My rating:
Review
I received this book from the publisher via Net Galley in exchange for an honest review.
I would honestly read Alix’s shopping list at this point. There’s a point 100 pages in that literally had me gasping and losing my mind and from then on I was completely hooked (I was already really but that cinched it). This is a book full of twists that are both monumental and small enough to not shake the book in its entirety.
Everything about this is just beautifully done. I loved it from the concept (and was already hyped from The Six Deaths of the Saint, which I am now planning to immediately reread) but the execution? Sublime. Stubborn and beautiful lady knight? Top tier. Slightly hapless but actually wonderful scholar? Amazing. Fated to fall in love and die over and again? Stunning. Time loop concept over new lives? 🤯
Also can we have a moment to consider this book delivers all this in so few pages? Don’t get me wrong I love an epic (as much as I am also scared of them 🤣🤣) but a perfectly delivered shorter book just shows how much can be done with economy.
It’s hard to rave about a book you loved without spoiling it entirely so I will leave it there. I highly recommend this. I already can’t wait to re-read it and am planning to buy the audio 🙈😂
4.75 stars.
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One Comment
Kelly
Aww, so glad you enjoyed it! I’ve had this on my shelf for a few weeks now, so definitely hyped to get around to it, especially after such a glowing review 😀