I think I have found Addie Larue’s equal! And that is saying a lot.
Positives:
✅Addictive and fast paced plot
✅Relatable characters
✅Multiple beautiful and meaningful settings
✅Subtle criticism of British colonialism, which I particularly appreciated from a British author
✅Inclusion of LGTBQ themes


I would also like to highlight the themes of love and grief, as well as the lack of super triggering content.
I seriously could not put this book down, and it should be on everyone’s TBR this year. Thanks so much to NetGalley and St Martin’s Press for the eARC.

Evelyn and Arden have known each other for centuries. They've fallen in love in almost every lifetime, but in every lifetime they have been fated to kill each other before their 18th birthday. SUCH A COOL PREMISE.

However, if I had not received this as a Netgalley ARC I would have DNFed it at about 28%. I was obsessed with the concept of this book and had read a lot of great reviews from people who had received the book early. I think it could have been really great however by 28% of the way into the book I didn't feel anything towards the characters. I didn't really feel like I knew them. I didn't believe in their love for each other. I wish that the beginning chapters would have been much longer, especially the flashbacks to past lives. I didn't feel like I ever got enough time with them to really feel for them.

Because I didn't connect with the characters early on it felt like the rest of the book was SO LONG even though it really wasn't long at all.

I did find the reason why they were stuck in this perpetual loop of killing each other to be very creative and at that point (which was well over 70% of the way through) I was more hooked and I felt like it saved the book for me.

6 FREAKING STARS. You know those books that you finish that you know are going to linger with you for years to come? Our Infinite Fates is one of those. As someone who loved the invisible life of addie larue, I knew this book was going to be right up my alley as soon as I saw the synopsis. It is very similar in a lot of ways, and because of that, I know this book is not going to be for everyone. However, I thought it was so unbelievably beautiful. I cried. I gasped. I giggled. I highlighted damn near 95% of the book because the writing was so beautiful. I will forever recommend this book to anyone and everyone willing to listen.

Thank you so much to SMP and NetGalley for the arc. My life has been changed with this one

I'm absolutely in love with this book. I could not stop reading while I was at work and I finished it in one day. This is such a unique storyline and it was beautifully done. Each chapter was beautifully written and was obviously well thought out. The attention to detail made me feel like I was in the story with the characters and feeling the same things as them. I cried like a baby at the end of the story. This is now one of the top books I've ever read.

Thank you to St Martins Press for giving me an e-arc of this books!

After reading the blurb for Our Infinite Fates by Laura Stevens, I was hooked. The reincarnation? The love spanning centuries? Yes and Yes. But man I was not ready for such a beautiful book.

This entire book was wrought with love, heartbreak, suffering, family, and sacrifice. I was hooked from beginning to end. As the reader, I felt every emotion with the characters and was just feeling all the things.

I loved each and every peek into Evelyn and Arden’s lives. It was like being let into the secret through each chapter, knowing I knew more than Evelyn about her own history was just turmoil. And getting to read what her and Arden experienced in the different lives was like being able to understand why and how they continued lives this way but also not truly getting it.

Evelyn so desperately clinging to her love for her family and her life each life was just ugh, so good. And Arden, remembering it all and still killing her each cycle. It felt so raw!

This life cycle though, Bran and her love for her mother and sister was again just so heartbreaking. With all her hopes being held on the fact that Arden could just give her a chance to save her sister 🫣 and then finding Arden and how he fits in her life already was just so good.

I loved Laura Steven’s absolutely beautiful ability to capture these different times in history and tell just a snippet of these iterations of their lives. It was like nothing by else I’ve read before. Don’t get me started on the reveal of how this cycle started. I cried, like a baby.

The ending felt just right and I think the book was just, again, one of those beautiful books that really make you feel things and feel love. Would absolutely recommend this book and am so glad I got to read it.

Thank you to NetGalley and St Martins Press for an e-arc of this book in exchange for an honest review.

The history nerd in me absolutely loved this book. Being able to go back in time to see the infinite times that Evelyn and Arden loved each other and the different places and time periods they were in was fantastic.

The hopeless romantic in me also loved this book because of the love between Evelyn and Arden and the idea of soulmates. No matter what, they always loved each other.

And lastly, the part of me that loves a good mystery and trying to unravel pieces of a story also had a great time with this book. Trying to figure out WHY Arden was going to kill Evelyn or vice versa in every lifetime right before their 18th birthday was so intriguing for me.

I flew through this book and it had me hooked from the start, if you like any of the elements mentioned above, you will enjoy this book.

I could not and would not put this book down. It is absolute perfection and I am in awe with how much I loved it. No notes. 100/10

Our Infinite Fates, a novel more ambitious in scale than Olivie Blake's short story "The Animation Games" while sharing a core concept, reincarnates its characters not just across space and time, but also race, gender, sexuality, disability, and class. It’s a fascinating premise, but also an immense task that almost feels like it’s set up to fail.

It’s like when a book within a book is introduced to the reader as a stunning revelation, which a reader can stomach easily enough, but then the real book includes quotes from the fake book that immediately show that it is not (something that also happens in Our Infinite Fates with the book of poetry Ten Thousand Years of You written by Arden).

I’m being harsh, so I want to make clear that I admire the scope of what Laura Steven is trying to do. But flashbacks that are set in locations such as the Ottoman Empire or the Song Dynasty can’t help but feel thin when they’re only given a single chapter each. They’re referenced in the present plenty of times to help enhance their impact, but it’s just hard to make them fully realized, and again, I don’t think the quality of writing is what’s holding this book back but the staggering scale of its premise.

Each reincarnation is distilled into only the parts that matter for the connection between Evelyn and Arden. I don’t see how Steven could have done this any other way, but I can’t help but think that Evelyn and Arden could have so much more positive impact on the world, with their experiences living through critical points in time and retaining their abilities/memories in their current reincarnation, rather than wasting their considerable talents to singularly preserving their love. There’s a disconnect between the scale of this story and the selfishness of their fixation on each other. I feel the need to say again that I have no ideas on how to remedy this in a way that doesn’t bring this entire story crashing down. David Levithan's Every Day got away with it because the "reincarnations" each day were constrained to the present day and not throughout history.

Luckily, Steven employs a self-aware tone that tempers the more ridiculous scenarios the premise forces the characters into (one character's entire reaction to Evelyn and Arden lol), and the mystery of why Arden keeps killing them kept me intrigued enough to finish.

I know I’m being incredibly annoying with what is supposed to be a nice YA romance. But if Our Infinite Fates is going to go there and discuss topics such as socioeconomic stratification and homophobia throughout history, I want more out of this book than just a nice YA romance.

Thank you to the publisher for the e-ARC!

This book has been at the top of my list since I first read the blurb, and it delivered!!

I loved the back-and-forth through time aspect of the story, with the reader getting the flashbacks along with Evelyn. I loved the plot twists in the end. I never saw them coming.

Thank you to NetGalley and St Martin's Press for the eARC of this book! I will be adding the special edition to my personal library when it releases!

I really wanted to enjoy this book, but I was literally bored to tears. I had to stop the book at 16%. It was like repeating the same thing over in different ways. My heart was hoping this would have been so much more.

4.5 ⭐️

This was an absolutely beautiful story of a love that transcends time, place, gender, and corporeal forms. It’s a love that spans a millennia, with Evelyn and Arden taking all kinds of forms yet always feeling a pull towards each other, recognizing the others’ soul, and falling in love.

I love that they have such a deep love for the other’s truest self, not caring what form they take. I love that the echoes of their past lives follow and haunt them in every subsequent one. I love Evelyn’s unbreakable human spirit, and Arden’s heart-rending passion.

The only thing keeping this book from a full five stars is that there were a couple of corny moments and lines, especially towards the end. And a few elements of the story that felt a little bit overworked and cliche. It was also a bit repetitive but I feel like that is inevitable for this type of story so it didn’t bother me.

Overall it was a gorgeous story that I will definitely be thinking about for a long time

I wavered between 2 and 3 stars with this one but ended on 3. I read it in a single evening which is to its credit, but there was much that distracted me and I wouldn’t read this book again. But I know this is getting rave reviews from others so I would still recommend readers try it for themselves-I wouldn’t want to rob them of a great read just because I personally didn't like it.

What I liked: I loved the premise of two lovers forced to reincarnate over and over, fated to find each other in each life and fated to kill each other before their shared 18th birthday. It’s a mystery to main character Evelyn as to why they must kill each other, and why living past 18 must be avoided at all costs. Lover Arden has refused to tell her for over 1000 years, and by the 21st century Evelyn is Over It™ and desperate to stay alive long enough to save her beloved sister Grace, who is battling leukemia and dependent on Evelyn’s bone marrow.

The chapters in the present tense involve Evelyn scheming, somewhat ridiculously, to stay away from Arden long enough to donate her bone marrow. There are frequent flashback chapters that show Evelyn and Arden’s history throughout the centuries, and I loved the different historical settings. There is also some nice poetry throughout the book that I enjoyed.

What I didn’t like: The prose was very descriptive and outright purple at times, but where some will find it evocative I found much of it nonsensical and distracting. This is entirely personal-I’m not calling it bad and it will appeal to many readers; I just don’t care for it. There is also anachronistic dialogue that I found distracting, and anytime Taylor Swift is mentioned in contemporary fiction I cringe. Again…a personal problem but one I will not apologize for!

The biggest problem of the book was that I never felt connected to the love story. We are frequently told with great emotion and flowery detail how much our main couple love each other and why they love each other, but rarely get a chance to actually see it in action. The story is told from Evelyn’s POV, and the Arden we meet in the present is…not the greatest. I would have loved some chapters from Arden showing more of his internal struggle.

Even when we find out why they are cursed, we do not see how or why they fell in love. And while the flashbacks are interesting, they are brief and usually show the same moment over and over again-their death or the moment Evelyn remembers that Arden will eventually show up to kill her. I would have liked to see E and A’s epic infinite love story unfold throughout the flashbacks instead of being dropped at the end of it and told how world-altering it is.

And finally, the ultimate explanation for the curse was a bit anticlimactic; not in theory, necessarily, but in execution. There is a final flashback after the climax that unravels the whole thing even further.

I have saved my pettiest complaint for last. I hated the names Evelyn and Arden. They sound too modern and hipster to have endured for centuries. IT'S PETTY. But I was annoyed by it.

TL;DR: I didn’t love this book but don’t regret reading it and wouldn’t discourage others from doing so. Great premise, 99% angst with an HEA, lots of queer rep.

Thank you to NetGalley, the author, and the publisher for an ARC of Our Infinite Fates. This was an exciting read. While I usually shy away from stories where love sparks instantly (I’m more of a meet-cute or enemies-to-lovers kind of reader), I found myself drawn into Evelyn and Arden’s journey—though I have to admit, I wasn’t always fully invested in their fate—or rather, fates. In fact, I kept hoping for a twist involving Ceri and wished he had played a larger role in the story. That said, the novel is beautiful as it is, even without the kind of gut-wrenching angst that usually pulls me in. I genuinely loved traveling through time and space like that. And the writing—God, the writing—was stunning. Fluid, almost lyrical, and utterly captivating. It was my first time reading this author, but as soon as I finished, I went searching for her other works. I’ll definitely be diving into more of her books soon.

“But our love story was not like that. It was blood and pain and death, an awful cycle doomed always to repeat.”

4.5 Stars ✨

Evelyn and Arden are reincarnated souls that are bound by a mysterious curse, falling in love every lifetime but destined to kill each other before their shared 18th birthday. Arden knows the truth of their curse, but Evelyn spends lifetime after lifetime questioning why. The story alternates between the presents and flashbacks to previous lifetimes, giving us glimpses of their love but also the pain death after death.

Present: Evelyn is almost 18 years old and desperate to save her sister, Gracie. Gracie has leukemia and needs a bone marrow transplant. The only match is Evelyn, but the bone marrow retrieval is scheduled after her 18th birthday. Evelyn is desperate to figure out who Arden is in this lifetime and convince him not to kill her before the retrieval. “I’d loved a lot of siblings in a lot of lives, but Gracie was a firm favourite. Sharp, weird, bright in an entirely unique way. So alive.”

Even with all the heartache, Evelyn and Arden have a never ending love. They are truly soulmates, their souls searching and needing one another. Bond to one another.

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

The answers you seek are slow to roll out in this book, why do they have to kill one another by their 18th birthday?? The conclusion is a bit rushed compared to the rest of the book, which is why it isn’t a 5 star read. The highlight of the book is its writing with beautiful poetry and lyrical style. I definitely recommend it!

Thank you NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for an ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Thank you to NetGalley, the Author and Publisher for an ARC of Our Infinite Fates. This has been one of my top anticipated reads for this year so far. Over all I enjoyed this book. I liked how it alternated between the past and the present time to show the characters pasta and how they ended up in the never ending cycle of love and death between one another. One thing I didn’t like is that you don’t really get a feel for why they love each other. In the flash back chapters you just see them killing each other and I kept asking myself why they were in love even though the MFC would state it. It just didn’t feel genuine.

Wow. Our Infinite Fates is a love story like no other, and I cannot begin to describe how beautiful this novel truly is. The mystery of why the plot took place mixed with flashbacks across time kept me absolutely entranced until the very end. The writing is filled with such beauty that I would pause just to wonder how someone could create a string of words that would evoke such bone-deep emotion in me. Throughout Our Infinite Fates, I thought about mortality and love, and I cried several times thinking about the souls I feel I am intertwined with. If I can convince you to read any book, let it be this one.

Narration by Sofia Oxenham was incredible. 10/10

I received an ARC and ALC from St. Martin's Press | Wednesday Books and Macmillan Audio | Macmillan Young Listeners via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

4.5✨
Thank you so much to NetGalley & the publishers for this ARC!🥹

How can I ever read another love story after this one?
This book is a love letter to everyone who loves everyone and everything so deeply 🥺. I feel so seen.

This is a slow story - therefore if you’re looking for something fast and gigantic - it won’t be for you.

It’s the kind of book you read with a cup of coffee & a heated blanket. It feels like a warm hug.

I absolutely loved all the characters this story touched and even if I don’t usually like flashbacks in books - they were handled so well in this one. And the romance? Oh the romance was the most heartbreaking yet loving one I’ve read in a while 😭

I didn’t expect the twists towards the ending and I loved the openness of the ending. I’m jealous of everyone who gets to read this for the first time.

I’ll come back to this when it’s published to add my favourite quotes.

Read if you enjoy:

Poetic and beautifully written books
Timeline jumps split between past and present day
The hunter vs hunted components
Rich culture and historical components
If you were a fan of the Addie Larue book and enjoy similar vibes with a different plot

The plot for “our infinite fates” is definitely a unique one! I absolutely loved the concept and once reading the synopsis I knew this was a book I wanted to try for myself.

This book definitely isn’t perfect by any means however I think if you go in with an open mind and you want to an enjoy an interesting and unusual story written eloquently and allow yourself to be enthralled by the big picture story of the two main characters whilst enjoying the ride and the vibes then you will have a fun and memorable time reading.

This book definitely takes you away from the rinse and repeat tropes we can get within the fantasy and magical realism genres so it was a nice change of pace with an author who had something new to say.

Thank you to the publisher and author the providing me with an EARC!

Publish date: March 4th 2025

Our Infinite Fates was un-put-downable. The story itself pulls you in from the first sentence, the writing itself is so lyrical and beautiful. Our Infinite Fates is one of those books where you get so sucked into reading the book that you forget who you are and where you are and when you finally come up for air you realize that you’re not in the book, you’re reading in your room or in a cafe or your favorite place to read.

Evelyn and Ardan, two souls who have been tethered together for centuries, have killed each other in every lifetime. Before her 18th birthday Ardan, a supernatural being whose life is tied to hers, has hunted her and killed her. In present day Wales, Evelyn, named Bran in this lifetime, has come to love the life she lives, and wants to live past her 18th birthday. She also needs to stay alive to complete a bone marrow transplant for her sister who’s dying. In order to save her sister, Evelyn has to stay alive. And to do that she has to find Ardan before he finds her, try to break their curse, and attempt to not fall in love again.

This book is absolutely perfect for fans of V.E. Swabs book “The Invisible Life of Addie Larue”! If you love heart wrenching books, lyrical writing, and books that stay with you long after you’ve read them, this book is perfect for you! Our Infinite Fates releases on March 4th, 2025!

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

Evelyn and Arden are soulmates. Across hundreds of years, Evelyn and Arden are reincarnated at the same time, and their bond inexplicably draws them to each other without fail. They are destined for each other, however they are fated to die each and every time. A tragedy of epic proportions.

“There was always Arden. There would always be Arden.”

Their love is woven together over so long. With each life they live, they will always find each other. Told through alternating timelines, Laura is able to explore so many of Evelyn and Arden’s lives together. We see snippets of their life, thei family, their normal, who they are as a person in this life. But we also see what is fated to happen in each of these lives, one killing the other.

A beautiful story that explores love and heartbreak and hope and grief and the torment of not being able to live fully with the one you love. Existential and deep, Our Infinite Fates is a compelling narrative that drew me in so deeply. I connected with Evelyn so much. Arden is even more tortured by the secrets he must keep.

“It’s an unstoppable force, and our love is an immovable object.”

Our Infinite Fates made me feel so much and I fell deeply for Evelyn and Arden’s lives, all of them—the good, the bad.