The Everlasting
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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
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Disappointed to see I already read the Hugo winner for best novel - The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow. It is a worthy winner in my opinion. Fantasy with a sci-fi element along with a story which takes some untangling. Five stars from me :-)
on “2026 Hugo Awards” ↗…few of my favorite reads so far this year: - The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones - Angel Down, Daniel Kraus - Piranesi, Susanna Clarke - Between Two Fires, Christopher Buehlman - The Everlasting, Alix E. Harrow - The Prince of Tides, Pat Conroy - Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher - The Tainted Cup, Robert Jackson Bennett - The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead
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