“The Everlasting”, Alix E Harrow
Published October 28, 2025
Sir Una Everlasting was Dominion’s greatest 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.
“To whom do you belong?”
✨ If you want The Everlasting-lite before you jump into this novel, read The Six Deaths of the Saint first.
It’s almost embarrassing how it took me so long to find out that The Everlasting was going to be a thing, considering how hard I ride for The Six Deaths of the Saint. It just so happened that I read a book about “a lady knight who time travels” on a day when my COVID-like symptoms were peaking, and couldn’t for the life of me remember what the title was. I thought I had a fever dream. I scoured Reddit, Goodreads, used all my SEO skills to find said story, and got a few results that included The Everlasting, The Second Death of Locke (a new favorite), and others. (It was Once Upon a Demon’s Heart by KM Moronova btw—thanks to a helpful Redditor.)
When I read the summary of The Everlasting, it quickly dawned on me that Harrow’s short story The Six Deaths of the Saint had grown up into a full-length novel. It was bittersweet; I felt like a kid discovering a secret sequel five years later. The best part was the availability of the Netgalley eARC, which I devoured in what felt like no time at all. I wasn’t even done with the galley yet when I placed my preorder for a signed and personalized copy that’s releasing today.
The jump from novella to novel expanded the magic of the base story. Harrow takes the core of her earlier work (a warrior bound by fate, a collapse of legend, the weight of repeating history) and fleshes it out into a robust narrative with characters who breathe and a world that’s straight out of a dark fairytale.
The Everlasting is epic and intimate. Sir Una Everlasting, an orphan turned legendary knight longing for retirement, embarks on one last quest for her queen. Owen Mallory, a scribe and a failed soldier, finds himself pulled back in time and in the path of Sir Una. They die and live again, in a time-loop where they are always thrown back into each other’s orbit. Owen knows how the legend of Sir Una ends, and it seems Una is resigned to her fate—until they refuse to let their grim destiny shape their future together.
Everything that I loved about The Six Deaths, Harrow took and deepened and sharpened. The prose is in second person POV, but not in a creepy Joe Goldberg way. We switch between Una’s and Owen’s POV, and they are always talking to each other. Like the reader is privvy to a private conversation. Something to be aware of if you feel a type of way about this writing style.
Also, I hope it will be the same for you, but I learned several new words through this book. What a treat. I’m looking forward to my physical copy so I can reread and annotate again.
Content Warnings
Note: This is not an exhaustive list of content and trigger warnings.
violence • death • war
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