The Everlasting

This 2026 Hugo nominee is an incredible time travel romance that begins with a crawl.  The first 140 pages or so dragged as Owen Mallory goes back in time to confirm the existence of the national hero, Una Everlasting.  Those first pages are rather dull during the character study of Owen, a mediocre historian with a passion for the Una Everlasting narrative, and his encounter with Vivien the new Chancellor.  But when he goes back a second time, and then a third, the book takes off with plot twists, Owen’s passion for not just the legend but Una herself, and the revelation of Vivien’s real reason for sending him back.  Upon finishing, I realized I was completely engrossed in the story and forgave the necessary drudgery of the first quarter of the book.

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