dnf at 25%. I thought this would be an easy 5-star book, but I almost feel like there was TOO much jumping around between timelines and not enough narrative drive in the main timeline to keep me turning pages. Interesting concept, though and I'm sure many will love this. This is totally a me thing, thanks to my short attention span.

Thank you St. Martin's Press and Netgalley for the ARC!

No, I am not crying, why do you ask?

This was a beautiful love story that spans time, gender, cultures, and backgrounds. The depth of their love, the tragedy of it, is stunning. I am just, imagining having to kill the love of your life in every lifetime! Just, ugh.

I took a star off because I just didn't find the ending satisfying. I didn't expect it to be happy, but the whole reason they have been cursed was kinda confusing and not really vibing, but the rest of the book is great and their longing makes reading worth it.

If you want to feel pain beyond your imagination, pick this one up.

Laura Steven’s Our Infinite Fates is an imaginative journey that blends humor and heartache seamlessly. The story’s expansive universe is balanced by deeply personal moments that linger with the reader. Steven masterfully explores the intricacies of choice, consequence, and human connection. It’s a narrative that charms, challenges, and stays with you long after the final page.

I was very excited for this book after hearing all the raving reviews, but this story fell flat for me. I believe the pacing of the story was too slow for me and so I was not engaged as I wanted to be. Regardless, I am excited to read other books by this author because I did enjoy the style of writing.

Another one where the premise was much better than the execution. Did not live up to the hype unfortunately! I ended up DNFing which I never expected.

really good mystery. Kept me on my toes and loved all of the characters and what they went through on this journey. Loved that they a happy ending happened.

I really liked this one but there were some moments that I did struggle thru a little bit. Regardless, I thought that the writing style was beautiful. The plot twists caught me completely off guard. I thought I knew what was gonna happen but each time I wasn’t even close. Lol! Also, the emotional toil this love story took on my heart. How dare you make me feel all the feels….but also….thank you 💖

I had high hopes for this book after seeing others give promising reviews. Unfortunately, this one felt flat to me. The author was over descriptive, so much so that every sentence felt like too many adjectives. I wanted to like this, but I think a bit more editing would've been helpful. I thought the premise was great and I hope to see more from the author in the future.

"Our Infinite Fates" is the story of star-crossed lovers, Evelyn and Arden, who are reincarnated into different people for many centuries. Their souls are tethered to each other, so they always find each other in each lifetime. However, haunted by a curse, one of them must kill the other before their eighteenth birthday, and on goes this never-ending cycle of life, death, love, and loss. Until Evelyn finds herself particularly attached to her current life, and she wonders what might happen if she lives to eighteen and beyond, and what that could mean for her and Arden's pasts and futures.

The best part about this book was the writing, without a doubt. It was lush and poetic and I often found myself staring at the page in awe after reading a beautifully crafted metaphor. It may be considered too much purple prose for some people's tastes, but I raise my rating of a book by a whole STAR when I come across such writing, so it's safe to say I'm a huge fan. But biases aside, I do think the writing is what really brought this story to life, with its vivid descriptions and imagery. (I also loved the little excerpts of Arden's poetry at the end of some chapters.)

I also really liked the inclusion of so many different time periods and reading about the situations of the many different bodies the main characters have been a part of. I thought it was cool to read about so many different nationalities, religions, cultures and so forth. The descriptions of the setting really made me feel like I was experiencing the place for myself, and moving along with the characters through their various lifestyles and time periods.

My only considerable issue with this book are the characters. I don't know if I can really say they were an issue, because I just didn't harbor any sort of feelings toward them. Didn't love them, didn't hate them, didn't care about their relationship with each other or any of the other characters, either. They were just sort of... there.

In short, everything about this book was pretty good. There is a lack of emotional connection for me, which is my reason for rating this lower, but I do like this book very much for its writing style, vivid descriptions, and beautiful settings. Made me feel like I was traveling through the centuries right along with the characters.

(3.5 stars)

˗ˏˋ3.5 ★ˎˊ˗

I was so excited to read this ever since I saw the custom sprayed edges the author posted. It was absolutely stunning! The premise also sounded amazing and full of intrigue.

When I first picked it up, I ended up putting it down halfway. The story started to feel repetitive, especially the dialogue in the past timeline, which made it hard to stay engaged. But, after a weeks, I decided to continue with reading it.

The pacing felt a bit uneven in some ways, the book could have been shorter, yet certain parts, like the introduction of the Mother and the Underrealm near the end, deserved more depth and exploration. Those new elements were intriguing and could have added so much to the story.

I could not put down OUR INFINITE FATES and enjoyed every single page to the point where I wished it were at least 100 pages longer. I adored the various timelines where we see the protagonists fall in love with each other in so many different ways, including many iterations of queer love. Evelyn is such a well-developed, compassionate, emotionally rich character with a huge heart that follows her through every reincarnation. Arden writes some very sweet and sentimental love poetry, but I love that for him. OUR INFINITE FATES has absolutely masterful plot twists that I did not see coming despite guessing absolutely everything I could think of. After I finished reading I had to put the book down and lie there quietly for 15 minutes to ride the emotional rollercoaster. I will be thinking about this book for years to come. Truly in the vein of Addie LaRue.

Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an eARC in exchange for an honest review.

This book was atmospheric and moody while also incorporating lighthearted pieces throughout. I was left wondering what the next chapter had in store throughout and had to know how it ended. The way information was revealed was perfectly timed and kept me wanting more.

This was a beautifully written debut novel that has me so intrigued for what the author is going to do next. I loved the interludes to different eras that Evelyn and Arden lived in together, but the Wales story was also fantastic. Both main characters were consistent despite them having multiple names and identities across time, which I really appreciated as well. I blew through this in one day for a reason, I loved the writing and the story did such a good job of keeping me invested, my only negative was that the twist and ending felt a bit rushed.

A loucious read with great prose, an emersive story, and beautiful romance. Really enjoyed this book. Can't wait to read more from this author!

I struggled to get invested in this story. The pacing was a little to slow for me I just couldn’t connect with any of the characters.

Ahhh what to say about Our Infinite Fates…

The good:
🤍Beautiful prose… so many lovely turns of phrase.
🤍The multiple timelines and locations all felt thoroughly researched and immersive.
🤍Every special edition I have seen of this book (including the two I now own…) are so pretty.

The let downs:
💔I never felt connected to or invested in the main characters and I didn’t find their love particularly believable.
💔 While the multiple timelines were well written, it wound up feeling like a bunch of one shots rather than something that grew into a cohesive story.
💔 I hated the twist. I felt like I trudged through this story only to get to the big reveal and feel a huge urge to DNF. The only reason I didn’t DNF was it felt silly to quit with like 60 pages left.

I really struggled with what to rate this book. I hate giving a book such a low rating and, like I said, the prose was lovely and the details were clearly well researched. But what ultimately led me to a 2⭐️ was the fact that I didn’t have a single moment of emotional spark while reading. I didn’t laugh, or smile, or choke up. I just did not enjoy it.

**Thank you NetGalley and Wednesday Books for the ARC. All opinions expressed are my own.**

THE book of the moment 🫶🏻

Thank you @wednesdaybooks for my eARC!

This book has probably been all over your feed, and I’m here to say, it’s worth the hype. Please keep in mind this is an older YA book that borders on adult.

Evelyn and Arden have been finding and killing each other before their 18th birthdays for as long as Evelyn can remember. Evelyn though really wants to stay in her current life and is determined to make that happen however she can.

Told through multiple timelines, this is a beautiful story about love, family, redemption, and more.

I highly recommend this one, and even if you’re not a huge fantasy fan, I still think you should give it a try.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

4.5⭐️
“and I love you,
and I have loved you,
and I will love you”

Imagine being destined to die by the hands of the love of your life. Of all your lives. Arden and Evelyn had me rooting for them since the moment I discovered their undeniable love for one another. To live so many lives of heartbreak had me in tears and so invested in a happy ending. My jaw was on the floor when I found out why they were in this cruel cycle and I, in an all the thousand years they lived, would have never guessed it. This book took me on such an emotional roller coaster that I am still reeling for that ending. Such a good book!

So thankful I received this as an arc. Thank you NetGalley and Laura Steven, eternally grateful for this opportunity!

Everything was going fine until I'd say the last 7 chapters or so. I'm a firm believer in the idea that you cannot have reincarnation stories without it being a little bit gay because the odds of people reincarnating across centuries and NOT being the same gender is absurd to me. So I was pleasantly surprised when this story showed that love should transcend appearances. The chapters that showed their past lives were some of my favorite ones. There was so much depth and characterization in them. I loved seeing them come together over and over again in different circumstances and how that played out for them.

That being said, in the last 7 chapters there were a few lines that took me so out of the story I almost stopped reading. Having Dylan (AKA Arden) say "We didn't make a deal with the devil. You are the devil" was not the plot twist I had anticipated nor the kind of mic drop I feel the author intended. I expected something more profound than "you are the devil". I thought they might have been immortal gods who were once lovers that were being punished by a higher god because one of them was meant to be with them. I thought they might have been humans cursed by some immortal. I thought they might have made some magical blood pact that didn't work they way they intended and left them with these dire consequences instead. Literally even just changing "devil" to "reaper" would've been better in my opinion. To top it all off, when Bran and Dylan started referring to what the Mother was doing as a pyramid scheme... they lost me. It was such a modern way to refer to an immortal entity and I hated it. It really took me out of the fantasy aspect of it all. What really drove home this 3 star rating though was the fact that in one of the last chapters titled "Greece" THE MOTHER LITERALLY EXPLAINS TO US HOW THE TWO OF THEM ORIGINALLY CAME TO BE THIS WAY. I did not need the author to explain to us that it had been part of her plan all along to have them live over and over and over again. It really and truly destroyed the magic of the entire story. I loved the idea of Arden and Evelyn in their first (second? technically I guess) lives just meeting by fate but to find out it was all orchestrated was a MAJOR letdown.

I picked this up because of the conver with no context of what I was getting into which might have been one of the best decisions ever! If you like reincarnation, fated mates, time travel (sorta?) And queer romances this is the book for you!. What would you do if you you died before your 18th birthday and the one whose fate is intertwined with yours is the one to kill you everytime? This book was amazing. The chemistry, the relationships, the world building was absolutely amazing and I could not put this down!