This book was an adventure. We get to see many lives lived throughout the entirety of the book and each of them are tragic and tug on the heart strings. The more I read, the less I was able to put the book down. I do believe the book could use some more editing to make parts flow easier and really draw out the sad scenes, but I still enjoyed this book.

overall 3.75⭐️

“i love you. i have loved you and i will love you.”

our infinite fates is a unique story about a love that transcends time. beautifully written, it is a poignant exploration of what it means to love, to endure and to hope.

where i think this book excels is in its depiction of the fmc, evelyn. across all of her lifetimes, she loves wholeheartedly despite knowing her life will be short lived. facing unimaginable hardships throughout the centuries, her endless optimism and hope is a testament to her strength of character. she easily retains her humanity and empathy in a situation where it would be so easy to lose.

i also thoroughly enjoyed the world building in this story, the multiple timelines and the idea that souls aren’t confined to a certain gender or race. what a lovely thought that souls who are fundamentally linked will find each other in every lifetime despite any societal barriers or social constructs.

while steven’s manages to write a compelling tale, i felt there was something fundamentally lacking between evelyn and arden’s relationship. they have this love that transcends time, but i don’t believe we explore their history enough to feel 100% invested in the outcome of their relationship. was i still rooting for them? absolutely, but i think i would have had a much stronger emotional reaction had we spent more time in their past, exploring their chemistry and the origins of their love.

overall, i still had a lovely time with this book and would recommend that anyone give it a go 🫶🏼

thank you to netgalley and the publisher for providing this arc in exchange for an honest review ✨

“I want you to know that wherever we are next, my heart will be with you. It might not know it’s with you, but hearts have their ways. Every atrium, every ventricle, every vein & artery will beat for you. Even if my mind has lost you. Because you are in the very fabric of me, all right? You are me, & I am you. And our love is stronger than anything.”

5 ⭐️

All Evelyn knows is reincarnation. Through the years of love & loss, she has been born & lived thousands of lives, always as a different person.

In every life, Arden finds her. And in every life, he kills her.

She feels an unexplained tug & an immense love for him. She remembers flashes of past lives but has never remembered why this has become their fate.

But when Arden finally gives Evelyn the details of the beginning of their journey, she decides to change their fate, no matter the cost.

What to expect:
📖 Multiple timelines
📆 Reincarnation
📖 Soulmates
📆 Enemies to lovers
📖 Love & loss

What an incredible story… How powerful is it that love can conquer years, decades, centuries? This book was so beautifully written, leaving me in tears. This book will definitely be one of those books that engraves itself into my brain forever.

I was really excited for this book and the set up and tension. It became really repetitive and I felt underwhelmed by the twists and conclusion. I just don't think this one was for me!

"I love you, I have loved you, and I will always love you."

I have not felt this way about a book in a very long time. This felt reminiscent of The Song of Achilles and The Invisible Life of Addie Larue. I heavily enjoyed Addie Larue, but The Song of Achilles is my favorite book every. This novel gave me the same feelings I got while reading The Song of Achilles, which has happened very rarely since I read it several years ago.

Our Infinite Fates tackles the ideas of life, death, and rebirth. It handles reincarnation and soulmates in such a beautiful yet heartbreaking way. This touched my heart and soul in a way I honestly didn't expect. I loved every second of this, you could not tear my kindle out of my hands. I was taking it to classes, reading while waiting in lines, reading at any chance I could. I just wanted to know more and more about Evelyn and Arden’s story. I wanted to know the “why,” I wanted every second with them that I possibly could get.

I honestly don’t think I will ever find another book like this. It is probably my second favorite book ever now. It’s funny when books that break your heart become your favorite. Evelyn and Arden are my babies and I will never forget them.

Huge thanks to NetGalley and Wednesday Books for a digital ARC of Our Infinite Fates!!

“I love you, and I have loved you, and I will love you.”

I adored this story. It was beautifully written (I highlighted so many gorgeous quotes) and a wonderfully story of enduring love.

I loved how the story was told, and the mystery of their existence is unfolded. It goes back and forth between their current life and their past ones going back in time, which was a fun way to see things they had alluded to. It was also a ton of fun to see glimpses of these past lives in all sorts of places and time periods.

The characters were lovely, and they contrasted so nicely with each other, especially in how they approached love and pain. The way Evelyn loved so fiercely and deeply was amazing.

I absolutely recommend this book, it was beautiful.

Thanks to the author and publisher for the copy.

OH NO! I am so bummed about not really enjoying this story. I loved the concept and the way the story could have unfolded so much better. The back and forth was so choppy that it kept jarring me out of the story. I also wish that we got a little bit more of the romance in the past lives to help us understand the yearning, the devotion, the love they have shared for 1,000 years. The ending really ramped up a lot of things but the reveal wasn't shocking or anything that makes your jaw hit the floor.

I wanted to love this so much more than I did!

I want to thank NetGalley and the publisher for granting me an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I guess today is the official release date for the book, and I'm glad because I just finished it this morning. I was intrigued by the description and went in with moderate expectations because if I'm requesting a book, I expect it to be decent. And this book was. It was decent.

Branwen Blythe has died over a hundred times before reaching her eighteenth birthday. She has lived across history as a constantly reincarnating soul called Evelyn, but in present day Wales, Branwen is trying to help her sister Gracie fight cancer by donating her bone marrow. The only problem is, as her birthday draws near, she knows that Arden, the soul that always finds her and tries to kill her, will do so again. And that might leave Branwen without the chance to save her sister's life.

Evelyn and Arden are tied to one another, and they always die by the other's hand. They have fallen in love in almost every incarnation, and although their history blurs together for Evelyn, Arden remembers everything. But he keeps a lot of it to himself. Evelyn doesn't know why he has to kill her, and Arden won't tell her. Not until it makes sense for the plot.

This book fell a bit short of its perceived potential for me. I saw a lot of opportunity to truly sell the love between Evelyn and Arden, but there wasn't much to go on besides the angst of their past experiences and their meta-physical tether. I hoped to fall in love with both characters, but it was difficult to do. I think the character I liked most was Ceri, who was only present for a few chapters. Being privy to a centuries-old lover's quarrel must have been a unique and mind-boggling experience. Anyway.

I liked the alternating chapters, where the past lives of the two lovers shed more light on their relationship. Part of me wondered how much research the author did on each time period and how accurate things were from a historical standpoint, but I don't believe I was meant to think too much about it. Unfortunately, one thing about stretching a love story across so many years is that it becomes difficult for me to suspend my disbelief that Evelyn didn't try restraining Arden more frequently. It becomes a little clearer toward the climax of the story, but it still doesn't sit well with me. Also, am I supposed to believe that being killed a bunch of times by the same soul won't result in seething hatred?

I disliked the prose probably for the same reason other readers liked it. The lyricism, if you can call it that. The poetry sections are hailed as beautiful pieces of literature, but frankly I chuckled whenever Evelyn was awestruck by Arden's writing. A lot of Evelyn's repeated internal conflicts and revelations about what it is to love and live and die and sacrifice were drawn out and I felt beaten over the head with it all. There were paragraphs I skimmed because of this, which saddens me because I want to like a book enough to read every last word.

I gave this novel 3 stars because of the above grievances, but also because I was interested in the ending and how the author was going to resolve the conflict. I felt there was enough substance in the story to keep me going. Part of me was hoping to see Evelyn and Arden truly fall in love, but their decision to change their fate was quite sudden and not really brought on by a different shade or essence to their present-day love. I was seeking a reason for their present incarnations to be different and willing to fight, but it was essentially a culmination of everything in their past that led to the twist.

I keep pointing out stuff I didn't really like, even though I'm trying to sandwich things here. I admired Evelyn's key strengths, and I felt Branwen was a good choice for point of view. Ultimately I don't regret reading this book, and I enjoyed it enough to read it all the way through (with some skimming, remember). I feel that this makes 3 stars a very understandable rating.

I liked it, but not terribly.

This book was different from anything I have read. I feel like I read ten stories not just one. The flashbacks to previous lives were like short stories inside the bigger novel. I really enjoyed the novel and the ending took me by surprise. I just needed more romance between Evelyn and Arden.

I slogged through all that back and forth for this?? I was so excited by the premise here, and it started well - but it very quickly became clear that this was just going to be a series of snapshots of the two of them killing each other for thousands of years, interspersed with attempts to avoid said killing. Over and over and over again. Until you hit the Underrealm, and the explanation, and then I was even more annoyed.

I'm in the small but vocal minority of people who struggled with this one. It is supposed to be a great love story yet I never saw it. I never connected to the characters. They never seemed to grow or develop, nor did their relationship. We were plunked in the middle of their story and asked to go through countless iterations before finally reaching the end. I did not find it magical and I did not particularly enjoy the writing. This one was just not a good fit for me at all...

I just loved this book.

It is somewhat the usual "insta love" "fated mates" type of book, which I love for pure escape.

But this has a different twist! Can you imagine if you were destined to kill your soulmate every year before your 18th birthday? Over and over again for centuries? and what if your soulmate wont tell you everything, because the knowing is actually worse?

I may or may not have actually teared up while reading this. I was totally sucked in and truly enjoyed the story. the writing and the characters. I will immediately look for more books by this author. .

I knew I was going to love this after looking at its cover! and I was not disappointed once I started to read it. Evelyn and arden may have become my new favorite book couple. I devoured this one in less than 2 days. I highly recommend!!

“I love you, and I have loved you, and I will love you.”

This book was breathtakingly beautiful. Evelyn and Arden are soulmates and star crossed lovers who are fated to meet in every life and doomed to kill each other before they both turn 18. The storyline is compelling, elegant, and heartbreaking as we shift between present day and the multitude of lifetimes Evelyn and Arden have lived before. It was raw, vulnerable, romantic, and mesmerizing. I was lucky enough to receive an advanced listener’s copy as well as an advanced reader’s copy, and I highly recommend listening to the audiobook. Sofia Oxenham does an amazing job voicing Evelyn, and truly brings this heartwrenching story to life. Add this to your TBR immediately!
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My rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨
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Read if you like:
▫️soulmates
▫️multiple timeline
▫️inescapable fate
▫️angst and pining
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Thank you to Wednesday Books, St. Martin’s Press, Macmillan Audio, Laura Steven, and NetGalley for the ARC. I received an advanced copy for free, and am leaving this review voluntarily.

This book entertained me from the beginning. It was a very fun ride through this book and I loved it!

This book single-handedly got me out of my reading slump!!🤩
5 STARS!!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I was drawn in from the beginning! I’ve not read a lot of books with a fated mates trope or anything much to do with soulmates but I can say, as a hopeless romantic, I love the idea.

We follow Arden and Evelyn through a thousand lives, timelines and locations. Their fates are intertwined and they are always feeling that undeniable pull to one another, no matter the circumstances. AND I ATE THAT UPPPPP!

I was getting so excited during each life that they lived, getting a glimpse into how they had been living that life as someone other than themselves (on the outside) but also how they went about rekindling their love before their untimely fate kicks in and the curse thats been put on them takes what’s owed🫣

Evelyn, after all these lives, doesn’t remember the curse or the reasoning behind why her and Arden cannot simply BE!! The author left NO crumbs when it comes to that internal struggle we see from both the Arden and Evelyn throughout the story simply surrounding their love and the curse.

I felt oddly close and connected to both Arden and Evelyn during the read which made me love it more.🥹We see them constantly showing and battling with their emotions, life experiences and trauma and I love to see that and it was written and portrayed perfectly.

Loved this read, easy to follow and I would recommend it book 1000 times over! 🤭

Thank you @stmartinspress via @netgalley for the ARC opportunity in exchange for an honest review 🫶🏼

Thank you NetGalley and Wednesday Books for the Ebook & Audio Arcs.

Wow it’s been a long time since I was left so speechless by a book.


Our Infinite Fates was the perfect story of unconditional love and blind trust. What’s meant for you truly wont pass you by. 
This story follows Evelyn and Arden “They've loved each other in a thousand lifetimes. They've killed each other in every one.” I was captivated by the love that Evelyn and Arden shared for each other their connection was something I never doubted and always rooted for.

With beautiful writing that made me want to highlight almost every line, it’s definitely one of those stories you lose yourself in and forget you’re reading.

This book time hops between the past and present and I found myself equally enjoying both timeline without preferring one over the other.

Evelyn and Arden were both so real as characters and I found myself attached to both of them and what they were going through. PLUS that ending? Have the tissues on stand by. I love a book that blows my mind.

Overall I would absolutely rate this book 5 stars and recommend it people. It’s definitely one I will be rereading.

4.5! Wow this was really great! The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is one of my all time favourite books and I can totally see why this is compared to it, while also being entirely its own thing.

Evelyn & Arden have lived many lives and we get to see glimpses of some of them in flashbacks but the mystery and intrigue throughout is trying to figure out why they are destined to live this way. I truly did not expect the twist!

The prose in this book were some of the best I’ve ever read, it was so tragic and romantic, the writing had me hooked from the first couple of pages.

I can’t exactly put my finger on what was missing for this, I think I wanted more depth from Evelyn and a bit more world development, although I recognize it would be difficult given the style of this book.

Overall so great and I am so thankful to the author & Wednesday Books for the ARC!

Happy release day to Our Infinite Fates!

I enjoyed reading this ARC quite a bit, despite my initial feelings about the time jumps. Eventually the time jumps became one of my favorite aspects of the story -- the feeling of tracking a love story throughout time, and the feeling of remembering who you were (and those you loved) throughout all of you lives was extremely beautiful. I think that, overall, I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in romance that defies the binary (quite literally), and exceeds the bounds of both time and space.

This story was also somewhat of a mystery -- how DID these two former lovers end up as bitter rivals? How can they reconnect? What stories can we glean from the poetry? All of this was something that I so, so enjoyed unraveling. I think in the future I'll be broadening my horizons to time jump stories more often; this was an absolute delight to read!

All in all, I look forward to giving this book another read and seeing what little easter eggs I may have missed.

All my thanks to both the publisher and Netgalley for the opportunity to read and review this ARC!

Thank you NetGalley and Macmillan Young Listeners | Wednesday Books

I do not even know where to start with this book. This was one of the most heart wrenching and beautiful stories that I have ever read. I was really worried about how it could possibly work, falling in love with the same person life after life, and always being doomed to have it ended by that same person. I have zero complains. This prose of this book has burrowed itself into my heard and will live there infinitely. I am not much of a crier in books but this book make me cry more times than I can count, and started within the first few chapters. I was so invested in this couple and their story, and I can not wait to read more from this author.

4.25⭐️

Evelyn and Arden have loved each other in many lives but they are destined to kill each other in each one. This was a beautiful love story about two soulmates drawn to each other no matter where they are or who they are in that life. The concept was so unique and the writing was beautiful. I especially loved the flashbacks to their other lives and the poetry throughout the story. You would love this book if you enjoyed books like the Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, the Unmaking of June Farrow and A Study in Drowning.

What to expect:
💙 YA Fantasy
💙 Reincarnation
💙 Soulmates
💙 Queer

Thank you to Laura Steven, Wednesday Books and NetGalley for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.