Cannonball Read 18

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There are only two kinds of story worth telling: the ones that send children to sleep, and the ones that send men to war. I need the second.

The Everlasting by Alix E Harrow

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Well good thing there was a bingo square for ‘Craft’ this year, because I have not read a book as well crafted as The Everlasting for a very long time. Alix E. Harrow has always been an ambitious writer, but here she really exceeds herself. The Everlasting is, at its core a love story, but I’m sort of reluctant to categorize it as just a romance; it’s so, so much more. Around it’s romantic core, it is a story about the power of myth-making, nationalism, […]

“They were to one another what fixed stars are to sailors: The only way through the dark.”

The Everlasting by Alix E Harrow

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I’m gonna start with a blanket spoiler warning, and also this: If you haven’t read The Everlasting, don’t look at any of the graphics, or anything I’ve written past this point, because nearly every sentence could be a spoiler, if taken in parts or sum.  Just know that this book is excruciatingly good and you should read it, without knowing anything… else about it, if at all possible. If you have read The Everlasting, come, follow me into what’s probably already the beginnings of lifelong […]

The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

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This was definitely a great book to end the year with. I still have a few more to go so let’s see where I get before the 31st. I thought the book was pitch perfect and I even cried a little bit at the ending. I loved how everything got looped together, nursery rhymes, Grimm’s Fairy Tales, and witches. The Once and Future Witches follows three sisters (Juniper, Agnes, and Beatrice) in a place similar to our world, doing their best to survive along with men […]

She Knocked it Out of the Park

The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow

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I had forgotten just how much I love Alix E. Harrow, especially her prose. I’ve read all of her novels and novellas and a few of her short stories, and this one is my favorite, which is interesting considering how much I typically don’t prefer to read about time travel. But her writing is great, and so was the story itself. The novel is set in a fantasy world, and the timeline moves between present day and the past. Owen, one of the narrators, is […]

The business of empire and myth making

The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow

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There are a few different layers through which to view this book. At the top, there is the story between the knight and the scholar, two people intertwined across time, who are in a loop and keep reliving the same story, with variations, and have a strong connection and love, and whether they can ever break the cycle and get their happy ending. It is a story about storytelling – something Harrow seems to be more and more interested in with the Spindle Splintered novels […]

Yew and Me

The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow

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I received a free ARC of this book from NetGalley. This hasn’t affected the contents of my review. I’m a big fan of Alix E. Harrow’s previous works. The Ten Thousand Doors of January is probably my favourite, but Starling House comes in at a close second. I don’t think I’ve read anything of hers that I haven’t liked to some extent, so I was excited to start her latest novel, The Everlasting, released last month. The Everlasting tells the story of Owen Mallory and […]



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