This book reminded me that there is a noticeable difference when an author has truly mastered their craft. You can feel the depth of experience behind the writing.

Her prose is absolutely stunning. Every sentence feels carefully crafted, and there is such confidence in the way she uses language. It is the kind of writing that makes you pause and admire a passage before moving on. At times, it even made me question my own ability to put words together 😅. It gives you that satisfying feeling of reading something meaningful and exceptionally well written, along with that reassuring sense of, “Ah yes, I will not be losing brain cells reading this book, thank God.”

The writing is sophisticated, but not in a way that makes you feel like you are reading a textbook, if you know what I mean. Just… ughh. I am so impressed by the writing style alone. I need to hear her speak too.

The story itself is brilliant. It is a timeline loop written in second person, which I usually detest, but I found this one super interesting and completely appropriate. I am a fan. I loved Owen’s character development. Una Everlasting already had me captivated from the first time she was described, but even more once we got into her head.

I love how the author played with the characters by switching the status quo of the strong man and fragile woman. Even with the woman being the strong, capable, powerful, legendary knight instead of the typical female character, they still retained what felt like their innermost essence as a man and a woman, especially in love. It is just literary perfection, and no words I write will be enough to describe how beautiful this whole book is.

I thought it would leave me disappointed because we had tragedy all the way through, but I was thankful for that ending. Even though so much was lost, how amazing is it to be able to say you loved someone through lifetimes, even if it is not real in our own world.

It is once in a while that we get gems like this, and I am so glad I picked this up.