Frankie's TOP 5 in 2025 | The Everlasting - Alix E. Harrow

Frankie says... My top fantasy of 2025, this taut, emotional, literally heartbreaking miniature epic was so surprising but so welcome as a rare gem in a sea of zircons. Harrow is so wildly inventive and talented; her world, characters and plot just sing. We follow the fated love of Una, a Knight, and Owen, a Scholar studying her myth. As they are chased through time, they must face (again and again) and the possibility of peace without one another... I cried SO MUCH. This is one for the Brienne of Tarth/ Jaimie Lannister girlies - I know you're still out there with me!! 

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A legend.

A lie. A love story. A lady-knight whose legend built a nation meets a retiring historian in awe of her fame.

He’s 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, and finally tell a different story, they’ll have to rewrite history itself – and change their lives in the process.