I just loved this book, I was truly engrossed in the story. It it written beautiful and is heart wrenching. Evelyn and Arden's story covers centuries and is moving and romantic. There is much emotion in the writing and for a YA I was vested. I loved that I was connected to the characters throughout the lifetimes. Thank you to St. Martin's Press and NetGalley for the chance to read this EARC I cannot wait to add a copy to my shelf.
4.5 stars

Truth be told, I didn’t know what to expect. I tend to go into some of these stories somewhat blindly. Not paying attention to reviews. I’m absolutely glad I did. This story was FANTASTIC. From the very first chapter I was completely captivated. Although confused, from the start I wanted to know more. I was enthralled by the basis of it all.

Immediately I was consumed in the world of these two characters. The many lives they lived and the stories of their past and present selves. This book was darn near perfect. I felt all sorts of emotions throughout it all. I wa invested. The ending was so poetic, I didn’t see it coming.

Thanks so much NetGalley and SMP for the eARC.

I found this book to be interesting and intriguing enough to keep me moving through the story even though I really didn’t have any idea why the characters were having to go through this hardship together. I found the writing to be descriptive and poetic at times. This is a really great book for Young adult readers because it does get emotional and vulnerable and can show that a character can feel so many different things without there being a lot of physical/intimate contact.

These Infinite Fates is an enjoyable read with a fascinating concept and strong character development. The world-building is immersive, and there are some truly memorable moments that kept me hooked.

Despite its intriguing concept, I had a hard time getting into Our Infinite Fates. There were several things that I struggled with. The first issue I had was the pacing. The author used flashbacks to highlight Evelyn and Arden's lives together. Although the flashbacks were neat, they bogged down the story at times. There were a lot of flashback scenes. They started to feel repetitive and old over time. I could tell the author was using the flashback scenes to cement Arden and Evelyn's relationship; however, the scenes didn't give me a great sense of their relationship. I didn't like that Evelyn and Arden's origin story wasn't shared until the end of the book. As a reader, it started to get frustrating not knowing the reason for Arden's behavior. The curse was too dragged out. As a result, I lost interest in the story halfway through. Another issue I had with this story was the ending with Mother. It felt very anticlimactic. I wanted more from the Mother scene. I also wanted more from the characters. I didn't feel like I got a good sense of Evelyn and Arden's characters. They felt very surface level. I did like that their appearances and genders were different in their past lives. It took me a while to finish this book. Overall, this book was a miss for me. Thank you to NetGalley and Wednesday Books for the ARC.

This book is beautifully written, you can tell the Author put her heart into this very poetic story.
Filled with love and lose, Evelyn and Arden's story spans multiple life times and eras of a millennia.
Some parts of the story may move a bit slower than my normal preference but the feelings the writing brough out made the read worth it.

🌟🌟🌟🌟 4/5 Stars

This book was a thrilling journey through time, love, and betrayal. I really enjoyed how it transported us across different eras and places, giving the story a rich, immersive feel. The first-person perspective worked perfectly, pulling me right into Evelyn’s struggle as she faced her fate across lifetimes.

One of my favorite aspects was the dynamic between the main characters—both villains and lovers, which kept me hooked with all the tension and complexity. Their relationship felt intense and tragic in the best way.

The twist at the end definitely surprised me. It wasn’t quite where I thought the story was heading, and I’m still on the fence about how I feel about it. But overall, I loved following these characters through a thousand years of heartbreak and second chances.

If you enjoy stories with morally gray characters, a unique take on soulmates, and plenty of history-spanning drama, I’d definitely recommend this one!

Filled with longing, heartbreak, desire, and hope, Our Infinite Fates uncovers the messy and complex nature of humanity. A thousand lives, a thousand chances to do it over, and to discover why we are the way we are.

Laura Steven wrote a phenomenal and unique story that will stay with me forever. Beautiful and honest prose fills these pages effortlessly, and I highlighted a quote on almost every single page.

I cannot recommend this book enough.

Sprawling, star-crossed, and sensational, OUR INFINITE FATES is the kind of book that only comes around once in a lifetime. With immaculately crafted settings and whirlwind twists and turns, Evelyn and Arden's story is a breathtaking romantasy that gives enemies to lovers a whole new meaning.

The premise to this book is incredible and I love the idea of following two people across time and then finding and falling for each other in each. I think that the prose was very well written and I enjoyed Evelyn's family immensely. However, I didn't buy that these two were in love one bit, it felt more like lust to me. I don't like being told things, I like being shown and the 2-6 page flashbacks that we got didn't convince me of that emotion. I also felt like the ending was way random from what the story had been set up as, maybe if they hadn't had the reveal of what it all was I would have enjoyed it more? The timeline jumping also felt like a checklist of every interesting location that could be picked without much cultural or historical context.

I found that some of the lines in this were basically reworkings of other well known books and that really bothered me. Not in a plagiarism way, (NOT SAYING THAT AT ALL) but in a it felt like it cheapened how well done the own author's prose was done. The translation line in particular comes to mind.

I do think that this book will very much be for someone. That someone was just not me. I'm not gonna cancel my Owlcrate with it in it though so that says something I think.

“Maybe that's all love is, in the end. An endless tempting of fate.”

did my favorite line in this book come from the acknowledgements? absolutely.

I was so undeniably excited for this book when I first heard about it. Two soulmates fated to kill each other in every lifetime? Undeniably tragic give it to me now, please. I was NOT disappointed.

From the start I was hooked. I’m in love with the glimpses of past lives we get, both through the bits and pieces of memory that deep into Evelyn’s life as Branwen and through the chapters of previous lives. This book is so filled with longing and fear of the inevitable, but so filled with love and hope despite all else. Seeing how Arden and Evelyn’s relationship evolves and changes while still very much staying true to themselves through varying lifetimes and circumstances was so undeniably bittersweet and beautiful at the same time. I found myself instantly falling in love with these characters while anxiously waiting for the axe to fall and everything to start over once more.

The writing itself was wonderful, emotion is so deeply within each line of this book that you can’t help but feel all the love and despair and hope and tragedy of these characters. The mixture of poetry and prose, this book is a love letter to the attachments we form with everyone we hold dear. This book easily skyrocketed to one of my all time favorites and I will, in fact, be thinking about it intermittently for the foreseeable future.

My heart is still breaking after reading the last couple of chapters, especially that last page! Bawled like a baby. What a hauntingly beautiful tragedy. While I adore their current lives as Dylan and Bran, I absolutely loved the little glimpses of Evelyn and Arden over the millennia. And that last flashback?! jesusfckingchrist. I was absolutely floored. Love the story so much!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with the e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.

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Enemies to lovers and lovers to enemies. Evelyn and Arden have lived a thousand lives. But never have they lived past eighteen. One of them inevitably kills the other. I've been anticipating this book since I first read the plot and the prose is lovely. Though I would've enjoyed past lives more if it made more sense. There seemed to be a set up to Adam and Eve given the names starting as such. I was wrong about that. The first and second lives feel so jilted and the first life seemed like an afterthought. After all that build up in present day just to stay alive for Gracie, she makes a new deal with the devil and dies in that lifetime rather than being able to stay. I did enjoy the past lives and wish we'd spent more time in them.

I received this as an e-ARC from Netgalley. I absolutely LOVED it. Such a creative story and it wS nicely executed. I loved that Arden and Evelyn didn’t always come back as man/woman. The story is told by present day and then jumping between different lives which I really liked. I felt very connected to both characters and wanted to know how it all came to be - that mystery of it all since Evelyn didn’t know why really helped keep me engaged.

5/5 stars! Can’t wait for it to be published so I can talk to more people about it!!

It has been quite a while since I truly felt like I couldn't put a book down. I finished this one in two days and I absolutely loved it.

It is full of determination, longing, and beautiful expressions of love, while also showing us immense suffering and grief. I enjoyed the mystery of why this curse plagued the main characters and they were never allowed to grow old but still loved each other in every lifetime.

I think this would be a great book for people who enjoyed The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue to check out!

Thank you to St. Martin's Press and NetGalley for providing me with a free e-ARC of this book in exchange for my review.

My first five-star read of the year, and wow—what a ride! Our Infinite Fates is a blend of romance, historical fiction, and supernatural mystery that had me hooked from the very first page.

The story follows Evelyn, a young woman trapped in a tragic cycle—she never makes it to her 18th birthday before being murdered by Arden. Again and again, they are reincarnated, drawn to each other, only for Arden to kill her before they both die and the cycle starts again. But why? Evelyn has no idea, and neither do we, making every page an addictive unraveling of fate, love, and betrayal.

What I loved most about this book was the alternating timelines from Evelyn’s perspective. The story jumps between present-day Wales, where Evelyn now lives as Blythe, and glimpses of her past lives across the world—from El Salvador to the Ottoman Empire. Each lifetime providing subtle clues and insight into Evelyn and Arden’s complex relationship.

I ATE THIS BOOK UP. The writing was beautiful and the mystery surrounding Evelyn and Arden kept me flipping pages late into the night. If you love romance, romantasy, and historical fiction—this one is an absolute must-read!

Special thanks to St. Martin’s Press for providing me with a copy of this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.

Thank you to NetGalley and St Martin's Press for the ARC!

Oh no...I didn't love this? I really thought I would. The first 30% - obsessed with, flawless, emotional, stunning. The next 50% however? It was a bit too repetitive for me to be fully invested in. I thought this was going to be a 5 star read in that first 30%. Then a 4 star read. And around the 85% mark, I settled on a 3 star. I love the concept and devoured the story, but I didn't love the execution (which may be a 'me' issue).

I did love the diversity in this story though - moving out of Western-focused areas and adding gender fluidity into the narrative. I could have read entire novellas for some of their past lives. For the most part, I loved the flashback scenes. I loved getting to know these characters in different time periods and in different settings. But as the story went on, their meetings felt a bit too repetitive and their interactions too short. And the modern day element of the story felt far too drawn out. I love the concept, but the execution just didn't work for me.

That said! I flew through this book. Recommending for those who like Your Blood, My Bones.

It is hard to shock me, but this book shocked me. I did not expect it to end how it did, and I have to say that overall the story was fresh and bundled everything up nicely by the end. I loved the ending, and I loved every twist and turn taken in this book. I thought it was amazing how the author weaved poetry and the different time periods to create this love story across a thousand years. I really did not expect where it went, and I enjoyed the ride the entire way through this book.

I will say that I am not a fan of miscommunication tropes, or stories driven by a lack of communication. I felt that at parts the story dragged as the main characters struggled to even hold a conversation with each other because of feelings that they would rather not release. The ending made that all understandable, but it did not stop me from wanting to throttle the characters at different parts of the story.

Overall, 5/5, really made me stare my mortality in the face and have an existential crisis while simultaneously making me upset someone won't write poetry about me every lifetime they kill me in.

*special thanks to NetGalley for an ARC* this book will be available on 2/17

If you love “The Invisible Life of Addie Larue” and Greek mythology this one is for you. A truly interesting concept of a story of living multiple lives. This was a riveting and quick read that will have you turning the page to see what happens next- however, the ending leaves one with more questions. I couldn’t quite give it a 5 for that reason. Lots to unpack and think about and a discussion piece to be sure!

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for the Advanced Readers Copy (ARC) of Our Infinite Fates by author Laura Steven.

This is a new favourite hands down! This story was absolutely beautiful in a variety of ways. The story telling is absolutely alluring, the writing style is some of my favourite ever read and the level of quote worthy pieces this book holds is just fantastic!

The relationships between the two main characters are completely inclusive in the most beautiful way to which it made me misty-eyed on multiple occasions.

A hauntingly beautiful story of two souls traversing through time and fate.

“Perhaps he was my true homeland; our existence a language only we could speak.”