The Everlasting

A time-travel fairytale that plants itself deep in your heart.

I read this straight after The Isle in the Silver Sea and the two could definitely be considered cousins, they feel cut from the same cloth. Both are great but I must confess that The Everlasting pulled on my heart-strings so much more.

2025 was the year of Lady Knights and The Everlasting uses this trope to examine war, violence, and who we do it for. It was a look at the corruption of power and the courage it takes to cut the puppet-masters' strings.

The nature of this novel had me worried it might turn repetitive but the story evolved with each telling and I was crying by the end of it. I loved it. The time-travel element was cleverly done, drawing on myths and legend and wrapped in the power of story-telling. Harrow took the magic kernel from her short story The Six Deaths of the Saint and wove a clever tapestry of star-crossed lovers who fight their way out of tragedy.