The Isle in the Silver Sea

"This alt-historical fantasy England rises and falls on stories; if an archetypal fairy tale fails to follow expected narrative beats, that part of the Isle collapses into ash and ink. The entire Isle’s survival hinges on the story of “The Knight and the Witch,” who are fated to fall in love and kill each other, lifetime after lifetime. But this generation’s incarnates – bastard lady knight Vina and immigrant witch Simran – hail from Elsewhere, which empowers them to try and finally rewrite their tragedy’s ending. It’s an enchanting critique of how colonialism blurs individual histories in favor of a nationalist narrative, with royal archivists destroying seditious primary texts while Simran and Vina struggle to hold on to themselves through revisionist reincarnations."