The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow
First off, I can say that I have really enjoyed Harrow’s other book I have read, The Once and Future Witches and her short story which takes on themes shown in this book too, The Six Deaths of the Saint. The main reason why I gave this 4 stars though is that the first part of this book was slow. I was not really following what was going on and then once things started to click and we get some of the reveals. I do […]
The Everlasting by Alix E Harrow
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, […]
The Everlasting by Alix E Harrow
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
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 […]
The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow
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 Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow
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 […]
