#51: Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting
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kareila_booksI'm noticing some recurring themes in Harrow's novels:
1. a protagonist who is ignorant about some key aspect of their heritage
2. a villain who is using the protagonist to gain power
3. a book within the book that contains vital secrets and/or magic
The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Starling House, and this book all have these elements in common, but in very different circumstances: a Gilded Age portal fantasy, a contemporary gothic romance, and now a not-quite-Arthurian love story involving a legendary medieval knight and the scholar who travels through time to find her.
Content notes: so much violence and dying. Also traumatic parent death, explicit sex scenes, pregnancy termination, and no really I'm serious about the violence and dying.
1. a protagonist who is ignorant about some key aspect of their heritage
2. a villain who is using the protagonist to gain power
3. a book within the book that contains vital secrets and/or magic
The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Starling House, and this book all have these elements in common, but in very different circumstances: a Gilded Age portal fantasy, a contemporary gothic romance, and now a not-quite-Arthurian love story involving a legendary medieval knight and the scholar who travels through time to find her.
Content notes: so much violence and dying. Also traumatic parent death, explicit sex scenes, pregnancy termination, and no really I'm serious about the violence and dying.
