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A review by bamamelereads
The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
5.0
Thanks to Tor and NetGalley for the preview. All opinions are my own.
I regret reading this book. Because I will never live in a world where I can read it for the first time ever again. And no book that I ever read from now until I die will ever be this book. I am wrecked, cast adrift, buried forever at the foot of the yew tree that will never resurrect me.
Look, I cried a lot. I basically started crying around 30% in and barely stopped. Then I sobbed for 10 minutes straight once I'd finished. If you think Harrow wrecked you in 30 pages with Six Deaths of the Saint, just wait until you give her 320 pages with which to work her devilry. I will never recover.
So, yeah, there's a lady knight, and a scholar, and a time-loop, and someone pulling all the strings. But this book is about love, and stories, and who tells those stories and WHY they tell them and who they serve. It's a timless and timely story. It had me in a chokehold from the first page and didn't let go even once I was done.
And of course I want you to read it, so you can be like me...starving beneath the yew tree for a story I'll never get again.
"I saw a throne teetering atop a stack of bones. An appetite, unslaked. A nation obsessed with a past that had never existed."
I regret reading this book. Because I will never live in a world where I can read it for the first time ever again. And no book that I ever read from now until I die will ever be this book. I am wrecked, cast adrift, buried forever at the foot of the yew tree that will never resurrect me.
Look, I cried a lot. I basically started crying around 30% in and barely stopped. Then I sobbed for 10 minutes straight once I'd finished. If you think Harrow wrecked you in 30 pages with Six Deaths of the Saint, just wait until you give her 320 pages with which to work her devilry. I will never recover.
So, yeah, there's a lady knight, and a scholar, and a time-loop, and someone pulling all the strings. But this book is about love, and stories, and who tells those stories and WHY they tell them and who they serve. It's a timless and timely story. It had me in a chokehold from the first page and didn't let go even once I was done.
And of course I want you to read it, so you can be like me...starving beneath the yew tree for a story I'll never get again.
"I saw a throne teetering atop a stack of bones. An appetite, unslaked. A nation obsessed with a past that had never existed."