I was super excited for this book because the premise was so good! And while I think it did an OK job with the story, it at times felt redundant and I wasn’t in love with the reason why they were fated. I thought it kind of came out of nowhere and there could have been more hints to the reason as the story progressed. I also did not really even feel any chemistry between the characters, but we were repeatedly told me they were in love, but how? 3.5 stars.

Overall: 3.25⭐️
Our Infinite Fates by Laura Stevens is an adventure told through centuries of reincarnated love and loss. It's a book that promises an epic, soul stirring love. This story is perfect for fans of Rebecca Ross' writing style (particularly in Divine Rivals) and love a little mystery to boot. For me, personally, I didn't love it as much as I thought I would, and there were times I didn't feel all the way connected to the MC's (even when I wanted to be) 😭😭

What I Loved:

💖 Reincarnation & Eternal Romance: I was instantly invested in the idea of two souls locked in a tragic, never-ending dance. Evelyn and Arden’s eternal cycle of love and betrayal is a unique concept, (I love anything to do with reincarnation ever since reading Blue Bloods in highschool) and, like Evelyn, I also wanted to know WHY. Why did they have to kill each other in every life???

💖 Atmospheric Prose & Beautiful Quotes: Stevens’ writing reminded me a lot of Rebecca Ross, with lush, evocative descriptions and some absolutely gorgeous quotes. The book certainly has its moments of poetic beauty, but it was also intermingled with awkward dialogue here, clichés there, or rambling trains of thought. This one was definitely a double edged sword.

💖 A Deeply Resonsnat Ending: Even though much of the narrative felt disjointed, the final chapter hit me HARD. The ending, with its deep sense of déjà vu and soul connection, left me in tears and provided a bittersweet closure that resonated with the core theme: there are things in this world we may not understand or fan't explain, but that doesn't make those feelings any less real, or their impact any less profound.

What Kept It from Being a 5-Star Read:

😞 Rushed Relationship Evolution: I felt like we never actually got to see Evelyn and Arden’s romance truly evolve. There were big, pivotal moments that were glossed over without enough of the small, intimate details that make a relationship feel lived-in and real.

😞 Repetitive & Predictable Flashbacks: The multiple incarnations and flashbacks ended up feeling repetitive. Instead of building a continuous, evolving connection, each lifetime seemed like a separate character altogether, which diluted the emotional impact.

😞 Juvenile Dialogue & Heavy-Handed Foreshadowing: At times, the dialogue came off as immature and cliché, which undermined some of the book’s more ambitious themes. Stevens also seemed a bit too eager to hit every foreshadowing beat, which made the narrative feel uneven and a bit over-explained.

Our Infinite Fates had all the ingredients for an epic romance, but the uneven pacing and lack of deep, nuanced relationship development kept it from fully delivering on its potential. If you’re a fan of reincarnation tales and atmospheric love stories, there’s enough here to intrigue you, but for me, it ultimately felt like a promising idea that just didn’t quite hit the mark.

Thank you to Wednesday Books, Netgalley, and Laura Stevens for this ARC!

This was absolutely phenomenal. I am still thinking about it. What a great 5 star read. The romance was perfect and the characters had so much depth. I love the twist where we find out how these characters got into this position. This author is going to become an auto buy for me.

Omg I’m in love with this book. The fact that the FMC remembered all her past lives and then had to go
Laura Croft on everyone is wild. It just was so gorgeous and the world building wasn’t too much it was just the right amount of glamor and violence to stay alive

In Our Infinite Fates we follow Evelyn, someone who remembers a long winding road of past lives, and Arden, who is her soulmate for better or worse and makes sure Evelyn is always killed before her eighteenth birthday. In her current life, the future of her sister’s well-being depends on Evelyn living past eighteen, so she needs to track down Arden in this life so he can’t get the drop on her and hopefully get some answers as to why they are trapped in this cycle.

There is a very beautiful sentiment at the core of this book about love knowing no limits drawn in the sand by humans, like gender, race, or creed. It’s not just the love between our main two characters, there is a devotion both of them have to the little sister of the modern day Evelyn.

Since the premise of this book is centered around two immortals being in love in a thousand lifetimes, I was under the assumption that we would get to watch them fall in love throughout history. That’s not really the vibe here, the way this book is set up the majority of it takes place in the present day with modern iterations of Evelyn and Arden. I think we do get to see both of the “moments” the two realized they loved one another, but there isn’t any tortured yearning by any means. It works best if the reader is willing to buy into them being soulmates, and thus already in love, from the jump.

I unfortunately wasn’t really able to connect with Evelyn at all and that really hindered my ability to take this book as seriously as Steven wants me to take it. Several reveals hinge on Arden not being able to fully trust Evelyn, and I think that gives him the benefit as coming off as more complicated and human than Evelyn. Evelyn historically is a martyr any time she can help it and plainly, unquestionably good. It’s likely she was in this reincarnation cycle for ten hundred years without ever killing or seriously harming anyone. While this might be a nice sentiment, Steven doesn’t exactly shy away from putting Evelyn and Arden in dangerous places in history. I understand being a pacifist, but Evelyn simply being so good makes her kind of toothless and ends up having some of her most interesting character moments trapped in the first act of the book without any real growth or struggle for her.

I think this book will connect well with a YA audience and I fully expect to be in the minority of opinions for not adoring it. If you need a story about love enduring, I think there is something very comforting to be found here.

Thank you NetGalley and Macmillan for the eARC.

Devoured in less than 48hrs. From the moment I picked it up I could not put it down. The vibes, the existential woe, the love, the loss. This was everything I hope it would be.

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

This is a book for the romantics. For those who believe in love even if there's no rhyme or reason to. For those who love being in love and fight for love. For those who believe in the tragedy and the healing of it.

Evelyn and Arden are pulled together lifetime after lifetime. Even though Arden must kill Evelyn in each one, she loves him despite not knowing why.

This book was so beautifully written. It was poetic and lyrical. It was dreamy and swoony. I enjoyed reading about the different lifetimes Evelyn and Arden shared. I felt the love Evelyn had for her mother and sister in the present timeline, and the desperate ache and need to grow old and plant roots in one place, in one lifetime. I also appreciated the message that love is love. It takes no specific form and we can love each other across time and space with no boundaries.

I enjoyed much of the book, but did feel the climax fell a bit short. There was much build up to the mystery of these infinite lives, but the resolution just seemed a bit quick and abrupt. However, overall, I still enjoyed this book and think the writing was so beautiful.

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word count: ~100,000 | page count: 352 | chapter count: 43
4.5/5 🌟 | 1.25/5 🌶️

age: young adult / new adult | genre(s): romance, fantasy
writing: 4/5 | quotes: 3/5 | characters: 4/5 | romance/spice: 4/5

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

~~~~ overall thoughts ~~~~

when I heard this called The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets This Is How You Lose the Time War, you KNOW I got excited, and even more so when I was selected for an ARC! I was nervous that the comparison to two of my favorite books would set my standards too high, but the combo is a perfect description for the vibe and plot of this book in a way that I loved. I cannot wait for more from Laura Steven.

~~~~ why not 5🌟? ~~~~

I am obsessed with the time-jumping, cat-and-mouse, chasing through time vibes. you definitely have to be engaged to follow the time and location jumps, but I am a big fan of the broad and delicate story it weaves. my main qualm is with the pacing and build-up; it was too slow of a burn for a plot that didn’t achieve feeling high enough stakes for me personally. I still feel like this was a great book and would definitely recommend it, but it has similar struggles to its inspirations without overcoming them in the way Addie LaRue and Time War accomplished for me.

~~~~ ✨what to expect✨ ~~~~

✨soulmates✨
✨I’ll find you in every lifetime✨
✨slow burn✨
✨time jumping✨
✨reincarnation✨
✨death & immortality✨

~~~~ quotes ~~~~

"If a hero is someone who will give up love to save the world, then a villain is the reverse. Someone who will give up the world to save love."

"Love can make a villain of anyone."

"Maybe that’s all love is, in the end. An endless tempting of fate."

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

I didn’t expect to love this book as much as I did. This was such a wonderful read! It had me guessing and second guessing and then getting teary eyed and happy… ALL THE EMOTIONS! I mean… THEY HAD TO KILL EACH OTHER IN EVERY LIFE. *cue all the tears*

Just as the premise says, Evelyn and Arden are two souls that have reincarnated into so many lives and in every life they fall in love and kill each other. But this time is different, or at least Evelyn decides that it has to be. Because she’s grown fond of this life, much more than the others and she has a sister who she needs to save.

I loved how Our Infinite Fates is set in the present, our main story, and then it takes us back into the past lives of Evelyn and Arden. They reincarnate in different centuries, times, places, countries, they are not always of the same sex or gender as their previous lives, and they always… always find each other. It was written so beautifully, spanning so much time. This was what I enjoyed most about the story, the way we experience just how strong their live for each other is and how gut wrenching it is every time they have to die. It makes the present so much harder to experience. I truly felt the desperation Evelyn had to make this time the last.

“Please know that what I do, it is for us, for this.” He spoke gently, as though his proclamations might break me. “If I didn’t, the hell we’d go through . . . Please trust me. Do you trust me?”

I loved these characters so much and was thinking about this story for days and days after finishing. I swear I was telling anyone who would listen to me about it. I hope everyone picks this one up on release day. It’s such a beautiful story.


A huge thanks to Wednesday Books and NetGalley for the eARC for review. All thoughts are my own.

This book is well written and very interesting. The book is told in alternating timelines between a present day and different periods in history. The way the book plays with structure and storytelling is fascinating.
Our Infinite Fates explores the long intertwined history and destiny of Evelyn and Arden. Evelyn knows Arden is her great love that she is pulled to him but she cannot remember the source of their bond and eternal curse. They must work together in the present to break their destiny and reshape this bond.
This book is definitely a book that even non fantasy readers can enjoy. Thank you to Netgalley and Wednesday Books for an advanced copy of this book.

Our Infinite Fates by Laura Steven 5⭐️

“the cruelest fate the gods and stars had ever written: the person I loved the most was the person who would ultimately destroy me.”

Thank you so much NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for the ARC of this amazing book!

Our Infinite Fates follows Evelyn and Arden, fated to be together as they are repeatedly reincarnated over a thousand years in different bodies and different lands. The twist? They are also fated to die together, by each other’s hands, before they can turn eighteen.

Let me preface by saying I can be very stingy with 5⭐️ reviews but I truly feel this book deserves it! I could not put it down and finished in about 36 hours. I had heard a lot about this book before reading it and I feel like it lived up to the hype. I’ve seen it compared to The Invisible Life of Addie Larue, a book I may be in the minority of disliking, but I felt like this book was a better version of that!

I think this book was so well written and the prose was beautiful. The bits of poetry woven in made me fall more and more in love with the characters and their story. I enjoyed that we got alternating chapters of their current life and glimpses into their past lives. I saw some criticism that the chapters in the past were too short but I think they were just right. They let us see enough of Evelyn and Arden’s love and loss in past lives while also giving nice snippets of historical content from the era they were in.

I enjoyed the mysterious nature of the plot in that Evelyn could not remember the origins of their story while Arden could but would not share. I did not see that twist coming and that is something I enjoy when reading a book. I also liked the suspense in the beginning that Evelyn felt when she was unsure when Arden would show up and in what form.

The themes of reincarnation and soulmates were thought provoking and emotional at times. I liked that no matter what form they took, Evelyn and Arden retained certain underlying personality traits and always felt love towards each other, even if they could not understand why.

The chapters in The Underrealm were a bit weird to me but ultimately I think the story wrapped up very nicely.

I will definitely be recommending this book and am so grateful I got the chance to read this early!

I would like to thank NetGalley and Wednesday Books for the eARC of this title.

I loved this book - I have told everyone I know who reads to read this book when it is published. The story is interesting, the alternating between present day and past lives is genius (without it I think the present day storyline could have felt too drawn out). The prose is beautiful and concise - proving that an immaculate story can be told in one book. I might get flack for this, but, I enjoyed this more than The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (which kills me slightly because VE Schwab does no wrong in my eyes).

Perfection. This story will stay with me for a long time-

I was initially drawn to this story because of the comparisons to Addie LaRue, which I loved. And while Our Infinite Fates had some similarities, it did not live up to that high expectation. It felt much more juvenile, as in line with a YA book.

The premise sounds like everything I want: two soulmates destined to kill each other in every lifetime. And it was interesting seeing the flashbacks, but I found myself caring about little. There were some great flashbacks, where I felt we got to see this great love of theirs. But then there were ones that felt meaningless, too short, and repetitive. I also cared little for the main timeline.

I loved the diversity of love we are shown in this and the inclusion of gender fluidity. Again, I just found myself wishing that we got to see more of the buildup to these past lives because I would have felt more connected to their love story.

The ending was rushed, as well. I think this needed some serious editing and reevaluation of all the various past lives. Either extend the book or cut things out to allow space for the necessary pacing. The plot twist was interesting, I will say, and I didn’t see it coming. Again, though, the execution of that last bit was done poorly and could have used some more time to develop.

Thanks to NetGalley for the advanced copy!

Such a beautiful poetic journey. I can’t say too much or I’ll give it all away.
I enjoyed the journey through history and the “dual” timeline telling of their love story.

I am DNFing early, around 8%. The style of writing is not working for me, and I know my tastes well enough to not want to continue. It’s not bad! Just not for me at this time.

I am so sad that I did not like this book more than I did. I was very excited as the premise sounds amazing but unfortunately the execution fell very flat for me.

The author clearly put a lot of thought and research into this book. Her writing was great! Unfortunately the set up and the characters are where it lost me. There also seemed to be several very minor plot holes.

Soulmates that are destined to kill each other in every lifetime is so interesting, and the author did a great job of capturing the attention of the reader. Where I feel it went wrong is that it became very repetitive and I increasingly lost interest. I felt very disconnected from the main characters and the miscommunication trope was very poorly done in my opinion. The plot twist of the book I found very interesting, but felt it was very rushed and didn't feel connected to the rest of the story. It felt like we were suddenly thrown into a completely different story.

I was way more tied into the FMC's storyline than her storyline with the MMC.

I can definitely see why a lot of people will like this one, it unfortunately just wasn't for me.

4.5⭐️
Thank you NetGalley for the e-arc of Our Infinite Fates. This book was full of so much beauty and tragedy. The writing and the way author can put feelings into words, describe aspects of love and grief were so profound. This was a 5 star book for me until the reveal toward the end. It caught me off guard, which I suppose is the point but, it also somehow felt disconnected from the story. I almost felt the portion of the book before the reveal was a separate book of magical realism from the portion after which felt more full paranormal fantasy. It somehow didn’t flow into one another well for me personally. Overall, I loved this story and am invested in reading more by Laura Steven!

I liked the premise of this story and the mystery surrounding the infinite lifetimes the main characters endured. The twist was interesting, though the execution of it at the end of the book seemed rush and not well thought. The book left me with some unanswered questions but overall was an enjoyable read.

3.75 rounded up to 4

Our Infinite Fates by Laura Steven is a mesmerizing blend of reincarnation, mystery, and fate-driven romance. Evelyn has lived countless lives, and in every single one, she’s been murdered before her eighteenth birthday—always by Arden, a supernatural being bound to her in a cycle of death and rebirth. But this time, Evelyn refuses to go quietly. With her sister’s life depending on her, she’s determined to break the curse once and for all.

Steven crafts a gripping narrative filled with tension, dark twists, and emotional stakes that keep the pages turning. Evelyn’s resilience and sharp wit make her a compelling protagonist, while Arden’s morally complex nature adds depth to the cat-and-mouse dynamic. The reincarnation premise is executed brilliantly, weaving together past and present in a way that feels fresh and immersive.

While the romance leans into familiar tropes, it never overshadows the high-stakes mystery at the heart of the story. If you love supernatural thrillers with a touch of doomed love, Our Infinite Fates is a must-read!

Thank you to the author and NetGalley for the arc of this book. The love fated to be in every lifetime, this is a wonderfully written story about thier unique and amazing love story. I hope you will like this book as much as I do!