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I don't read time travel books, unless authored by Alix Harrow. Somehow she managed to write so beautifully that she didn't make it repetitive. Books about knights don't generally make their way on my tbr, but again, it seems the author defied this as well. The writing, the themes and depth of the story kept me reading a book I shouldn't have even wanted to pick up.

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The short plot description of this novel, 'a mostly mute young person of unidentified gender or race with memory loss is taken in by a family in a small southern town' doesn't begin to describe the experience of reading the novel because of how we view the events through that person's perspective. Instead of Pew being the focus of a mystery, we see various characters spreaking to them in long unanswered portions that almost remind me of a play, 👇

Once, there was a knight. Then, there was a scholar documenting the knight‘s legends many years later. The 2 stories aren‘t supposed to meet, until a mysterious book arrives in the scholar‘s lap.

WTF was this book. A love story, Arthurian vibes, a time loop, a tale about the power of stories, what makes a nation or a kingdom, & grasping your own destiny between your hands. This left me crying, & I want to read this again immediately.🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗

Alix E. Harrow tricked me into reading a time travel book!

OK, when I say she tricked me I mean she wrote a book and therefore I read it.

And I did love it despite the time travel. I was riveted as Owen untangled the path of his own story and that of his country. I never guessed what was going to happen next. My heart was broken and mended. This is a story about stories, and about history, and above all about love.

An early birthday present from a friend who lives on the other side of the world who did get a bit stressed that the Australian release date for this would arrive before the book did (funnily enough it arrived day of). Genuinely hilarious getting a text suggesting that I stay out of bookshops 🤣 This is one of my most anticipated books of the year.

Since her amazing debut, I‘ve eagerly picked up each of her books. Sir Una Everlasting & Owen‘s story is an adventurous, time-traveling love story that I couldn‘t put down (I did listen to some on audio, too— the female performer is great!). With any cyclical tale, there‘s some repetition out of necessity but it doesn‘t slow the pacing too much. With shocks to the plot, & some messages for readers today— plus a scene stealing horse, it‘s great!

I love a good time travel story and even though I typically prefer travel within the confines of magical realism I was all in for the fantasy of Dominion. …I‘ve fallen into several stories of late where magical elements come into play to rewrite history. I can‘t help but wonder if authors see craziness in aspects of today‘s world to create unrelated fictional stories