The Everlasting

De: Alix E. Harrow

Narrado por: Moira Quirk, Sid Sagar

From Alix E. Harrow, the New York Times bestselling author of Starling House, comes a moving and genre-defying quest about the lady-knight whose legend built a nation, and the cowardly historian sent back through time to make sure she plays her part–even if it breaks his heart.

Sir Una Everlasting was Dominion’s greatest hero: 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.


"Alix E. Harrow is an exceptional, undeniable talent." —Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six

"An utter masterpiece… I loved every single page." —Rachel Gillig, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of One Dark Window

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books.

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Praise for Starling House
"This book has everything you could possibly want this fall...a cursed town, a haunted house, a vivid & eerie setting—plus, characters willing to risk everything." —Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club October ’23 Pick)

"Alix E. Harrow is an exceptional, undeniable talent." —Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six

“Harrow's lyrical prose propels this contemporary Southern gothic, offering an atmospheric fairy tale with delightfully jagged-edged characters.” –EW.com

“Alix E. Harrow is a fantasy author who just does not miss.” —Paste Magazine

"As sumptuous and romantic as it is sinister, Alix E. Harrow’s foray into Southern gothic literature is a perfect book to ring in the start of spooky season." –Polygon

"Gorgeous, poignant, and honest—an unforgettable read." —Andrea Stewart, author of The Bone Shard Daughter

"As knife-edged and sharp as its protagonist...A smart, spectacular contemporary Gothic that will leave its roots in you and linger in your dreams." —Kat Howard, Alex Award-winning author of An Unkindness of Magicians

"Harrow’s mash-up of twisted fairy tales and Southern gothic fiction is a haunting story of longing, lies, and generational curses." —Library Journal, starred review

"Starling House will no doubt take its place alongside fiction’s most memorable haunted houses.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review

Beautifully told story

I absolutely adored this novel! Such evocative prose! The love story is a thing of true beauty - a timeless (haha) tale of how two souls can be so perfectly matched that time nor death can keep them apart. And while the love story is perfection, what really makes this book remarkable is the thought provoking insight into how history is made - or more importantly, how it can be engineered. A beautifully written book & one I will think of often. Moira Quirk is phenomenal as always & Sid Sagar narrated Owen perfectly. This will be a book I come back to again & again.

Don’t despair

I had a moment of dread the first time the plot wound ‘round. I’m so glad I stuck with it! Harrow manages to weave a fracturing spiral. She creates a timeless but refreshing legend. I ended up loving this book!

its everything

This book had everything I look for in a book and a lot i never knew i wanted. It's original and creative. It's sexy and sometimes gross. It's a powerful story. I loved it. thank you!

The most gutting and wonderful

At times such a hard read, but lyrical and cutting to the very core of this biting and endless autumn. It’s pages still echo around the house when I have a quiet minute. I couldn’t put it down although I wished sometimes I was not reading it and wished there was so much more to keep reading as I neared the end. I hope you will read this book and give this gift to yourself. I hope you will take on this burden, and be better for the reading of it.

Don’t meet your heroes or mess with time

A disturbingly tragic love story wrapped up in a trip…trips…through time, all to satisfy the over zealous, greedy, black heart of a woman who wanted to live forever.

This is one of my favorite books this year.

UNBELIEVABLE

I’ve never, EVER read (listened to) anything comparable. This will live on in my brain until I die or forget from old age.

Incredible

Haven’t cried like this during a book in years. Might just pop it on again immediately after finishing just now.

So much potential

I seriously went back and forth with this book and how to rate it because I had to sit with it for a while after I finished it to understand how I felt.

In a broad sense, this is the story of the relationship between two people - Sir Una Everlasting and Owen Mallory - that takes place over various time periods where Owen continually experiences Una's death. But that does not really explain it at all. In reality, it is the development of this relationship between the two that begins with two people from completely different backgrounds who have absolutely NOTHING in common, to a love story between two people who will go to the ends of the Earth for each other. In that sense, the book is wonderfully and beautifully written.

Unfortunately, there are other issues with the story that did not let me stay in that perfect place of complete immersion. Without going into spoilers, this book tells us a story that deals with time travel. Quite a bit of time travel. When I say that the main characters are continually going back in time to try to redo everything - that is not an exaggeration. At all. Talk about unlimited attempts at trying again.... But they are not in charge. Hence, the issues.

There is a villain in this story who is quite the bad guy. Where I got frustrated - EXTREMELY frustrated - was with the fact that this villain ALWAYS seemed to have the upper hand. How on Earth - if you already know certain information, and you learn more each and every time - how can you still let this person win? Every. Single. Time. This portrayal seemed to elevate this character to almost godlike abilities. After everything is revealed and after seriously thinking certain issues through, some holes in the storyline began to emerge for me regarding this character.

I understand the need to show the repetitive attempts and retries to set the stage as the world is being built for our characters, but eventually it becomes exhaustive. Again, feeling like the two MC's were just puppets on strings took away from the ultimate beauty of the story that was being painstakingly built.

In the end, I do think this was worth the read. I ended up feeling lots of FEELS and went on quite the emotional rollercoaster with this book. Unfortunately, my levels of frustration ended up impacting me more than I would have liked.

fairy tale

I enjoyed this one as I love all her books but it goes in circles so you hear different versions of the same story over and over

A Masterpiece

I will read anything Alix E Harrow writes and this one is just another stunner. Magnificent storytelling.