This book was so profoundly good that I don't really have the words. It was written beautifully. It gave me all the feels and some that I didn't want. You will need a moment after you finish reading it, I know I did.

*Thank you to the Publisher, Author, and Netgalley for providing me with an E-ARC of "Our Infinate Fates" in exchange for an honest review *

This was super sweet.

Amazing,.Amazing. Amazing.. Our Infinate Fates was absolutely everything I hoped it to be! The writing, the plot, the creativity. 10/10 will be reccomending to everyone.

I'm a huge sucker for immortality and reincarnation, I'll love you in every life and Laura Steven delivered.

This is the best young adult novel I've read in years! I already left a review on Goodreads but I just want to say that it was such a pleasure to read this book and it has such potential crossover appeal to adult readers as well because the story is so amazing. Seriously I don't say this often but it was such a pleasure to read an advanced copy of this and I cannot wait till the book comes out because it will only help spread the word and Laura Steven and our infinite Fates is a name and a title to know! Absolutely very highly recommended and definitely the ya of 2025

"If I show the universe how much I love my family, they'll be taken from me in spite. Maybe that's all love is, in the end. An endless tempting of fate."

This book….I honestly don’t think I will ever be the same again. It captivated me the entire way through. Evelyn and Arden meet in every lifetime…and kill each other. But Evelyn doesn’t know why Arden is hunting her down.

If you loved Addie LaRue, you’ll love the pacing of the book and questions and answers surrounding love, the afterlife, and what love means.

4.5 stars/5

This book was one of my top reads of the year! The plot is so original and creative. I adored the main characters and found myself rooting for them every step of the way despite knowing the specifics of their arrangement. The brought me to tears and I've been thinking about it daily ever since I finished it! Thank you so. much Netgalley for the ARC opportunity! I cannot recommend this read enough!

I’m still recovering from this book. While on paper, it looks like it took me forever to read, it’s because I wanted to savour it.

The concept 👏🏼 the writing 👏🏼 the love 👏🏼. And not just romantic love too, the strong familial love was gut-wrenching. For me, this book had it all. It was so beautifully written, with such detailed settings of the past.

The title OUR INFINITE FATES is a heavy one, and it surely delivered. Although it gives ADDIE LARUE fall vibes, it could also be best read in the colder months!!!!

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC of the book.
The concept of the book was very interesting. I loved the idea of ressurection a lot and seeing the characters previous lifes was intriguing.

For the first 30-35%, I was interested in both storylines. Seeing their past and how they feel for each other every single time was very fascinating. I also liked the first small plot twist in the first chapters, it was a fun one.
I also liked the small poems at the end of some chapters, showing us how the love interest felt. I loved the characters personality as well!

The problem is that after a while, the plot became a bit repetitive, knowing how every past memory will end.

I'm a little bit insure about the ending, it became confusing. It was too easy <spoiler>They really defeated the enemy with the power of love.</spoiler> There's also the fact that the origin of the "curse" isn't very clear. The love interest tells us about how it began but we discover something else? I'm confused a little. We also had no real hint for us to analyse, trying the guess what happened. I wish we had more.

In summary, it was a good book but a little bit too repetitive reaching the end.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for this arc!

This book was gut wrenching and beautifully written and just wow. Really made me think. I often don’t like that in a “fun book” but it works here.

I can say without a doubt that this is one of the most beautifully written, heart wrenching stories I have ever read. I haven’t had my heart broken and mended that many times while reading. I cried 7 times due to being overwhelmed by the pure beauty of the writing and from the story itself.

I find myself struggling to find the words to describe this book because this is a love story but it is so much more than that. It is agonizing pain, heartbreak, swoon-worthy love and harrowing adventures that will actually make your heart do leaps and bounds throughout the story.

What would you do if you were destined to kill your soulmate every year before your 18th birthday for centuries? What will you do to survive and get answers? Why are you stuck in this twisted turn of infinite fates?

That is this book in a nutshell. I went into it completely blind and can honestly say that is the way to go. I haven’t sobbed that hard in a while and it was honestly refreshing to have a book elicit that much emotion from me. I will definitely be rereading this book and it will be a book that sticks with me for many years to come.

y’all. this book 😭 i have so many feelings to unpack so buckle up because this is going to be a long one.

evelyn and arden are two souls inextricably linked, destined to meet each other in every lifetime, but kill each other before their eighteenth birthday. the book is primarily told in the present where evelyn is more desperate than ever to break the curse so she can give her sister a life-saving bone marrow transfusion. but every few chapters, we also have the delight of flashing back to a previous life, tracing their tragic story across the world and throughout history.

everything about this book with its incredible hook, stunning writing, and gut-wrenching plot twists had me devouring it cover-to-cover in five hours. i literally could NOT put it down. don’t even speak to me about the final two chapters..... i think about them every day and break down again every time i do.

one thing is that i REALLY loved how steven raised the idea that a person is not their body, but their soul, and as she takes the reader through evelyn and arden’s past lives, they are reborn each time as someone completely new. this meant that evelyn and arden had no way of identifying each other beyond a gut instinct. because of that, there is a really compelling element of mystery and suspense that is almost always at the back of evelyn’s mind.

but it also meant that their relationship is not always straight-presenting. for a book that is centered on this incredibly powerful, tumultuous, tragic, beautiful love between two characters across a hundred lifetimes, it brought me to tears to see it presented with equal weight and importance whether it was girl meets boy, or boy meets boy, or girl meets girl. in short, evelyn and arden, you will always be famous and always be carried in a special place in my heart.

so. this is me formally requesting that each and every one of you go online to preorder this gem, or go in person to wherever books are sold on march 4th, 2025 because you DO NOT want to miss this. thank you so very much to netgalley and st. martin's press for providing me with an arc in exchange for an honest review!!

Our Infinite Fates is a deeply moving story focusing on two lovers who have found each other time and time again across a thousand years and hundreds of lifetimes. Each Life time one must murder the other before they turn 18 but only one of them remembers why.

What I loved
1. The relationship between our main characters is complex and compelling for its complexity.

2. in alternating chapters the reader is treated to glimpses of the past lives shared by the characters allowing for a deeper understanding of the connection between them than what their modern day interactions would grant.

3. Both main characters have incarnated as other sex's or genders making their nature feel transcendent of modern notions of gender, sexuality, and relationships.

What didn't work for me as well
1.There is a side character our leading lady originally suspected of being our leading man , and I wanted so much more about what happened to him after the events of this book.

2. The law enforcement in the book felt woefully incompetent.


Who I would recommend this title for

Fans of lyrical writing such as in Lani Taylor's Strange the Dreamer or morally complex love stories such as in the invisible life of Addie La rue are in for a delightful treat with Our Infinite fates.

*A note on the ending*
I loved the revel of a heroine's nature and how the lovers had to sacrifice in standing up to The Mother but something about love being how to defeat the literal incarnation of suffering as a being felt a bit heavy handed after the delightfully subtle way much of the narrative had been handled.

I absolutely loved this book. Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC! Imagine killing the person you love in infinite lifetimes before you turn 18. For thousands of years.

I was so intrigued from day 1 when I read about this book. If did not disappoint! Evelyn has been murdered in every lifetime by Arden before the day they turn 18. But in this current lifetime, Evelyn’s younger sister Gracie has cancer and without Evelyn’s bone marrow transplant, Gracie will not survive. Evelyn is determined to make this lifetime the one where she survives in order to save her sister.

A great book with a twist I honestly didn’t expect. I’d read more by this author any day.

Our Infinite Fates presents a compelling concept of love and reincarnation, blending elements from The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and This Is How You Lose the Time War. I was drawn in by the intriguing premise, eager to explore Evelyn and Arden's tumultuous relationship through the ages. However, something about the execution fell short for me.

Evelyn's struggle to break the curse that leads to her repeated deaths before her eighteenth birthday is an engaging hook, but I found myself wishing for a different approach. The constant cycle of death limited the exploration of their characters, and I think the story would have benefited immensely if they had the chance to experience life as adults. This might have allowed for richer development and a more profound emotional connection to their journey.

While the writing has its moments and the themes of love and fate are beautifully woven, the repetitive nature of their story ultimately detracted from my enjoyment. If Evelyn and Arden had the opportunity to navigate life beyond their teenage years, I believe I would have connected with their narrative on a deeper level. As it stands, Our Infinite Fates offers an interesting read, but it left me craving more substance and growth from its characters.

Amazing is the first thing I need to say. Somehow I finished this book in one sitting. The narrative was so beautiful, it made my heart ache. To feel the want of Evelyn and Arden made me want to cry. The love and suffering of these two characters are written throughout the whole book. 100% one of the best books I read in a while.

I received an ARC from the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Our Infinite Fates by Laura Steven is an excellent YA contemporary fantasy romance following two souls deeply bound together throughout time. Evelyn and Arden have known and loved each other for centuries and only truly know themselves in each others. However, they are just as bound to die by each other's hands before they can turn 18, no matter how hard Evelyn tries to live beyond this cut-off. Arden, though, is inflexible, insisting that it is impossible for them to live any longer than this point, less something terrible happen. In this life however, Evelyn is determined to get to the bottom of why this must always be so.

Throughout the book, which is written entirely from Evelyn's POV, we see alternating scenes from their current life in Wales to the lives they've had together in the past, both the good and the bad. What shines clearly on every page of this book is the depths of love and devotion that these two have to each other and it was by far my favorite part of the book. We also see a profound level of reflection and introspection, while Evelyn thinks on what it means to love, to live, and to find happiness in another and in one's one life.

I would recommend this to fans of reincarnation and star-crossed lovers who love to see a tragic relationship that can never truly bloom.

This was a beautifully done reincarnation story, it had that element that I was looking for and was engaged with in the genre. The concept worked well and was written in a way that was engaging and kept the readers attention. I enjoyed the way the characters were written and enjoyed the past lives of this story. I’m excited to read more from Laura Steven as this was a really well done book.

⭐️3.75

Thank you to Net Galley for the ARC of Our Infinite Fates.

This novel reflects on the themes of love, loss, and grief. Have you ever been visited somewhere and the place felt familiar? Have you ever met someone and it was as if you had met before? So have the main characters of Our Infinite Fates. Except their souls have met before, in multiple lifetimes, and they have been forced to kill each other over and over again.

This book will really have you digging into emotions and having high hopes for the main character. And that ending? Beautiful.

The star and a half was removed because the of the visit to the underworld and with The Mother was just too corny for me. I was reminding myself it’s a YA book, but I’m not sure even teenage me would have thought that it wasn’t corny.

Thank you to Laura Steven, Wednesday Books, and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this book!
This was my first by Laura Steven after hearing such high praise for her writing, I was excited! But this book just fell flat for me. I did really love the glimpses of the historical fiction side to this book as I love that genre all on its own, along with the bit of mystery in the story. I also really enjoyed the “present day” story and characters and would have loved to see a HEA there. Overall, it was okay. I think I won’t go out of my way to read more by this author.

A magical realism tale of two people destined to kill each other, again and again. Evelyn & Arden have known each other for centuries: in the trenches of France during World War I, at the height of the spice trade in the Dutch East Indies, and now in modern day Wales. Each interaction ends in the same way: one of them kills the other before their 18th birthday. Discovering why they are fated to this existence is a tale full of magical realism and heart. I would say this is solidly YA, the poetry bits especially, but still an enjoyable read if YA typically isn't your thing. I enjoyed unraveling the relationship between Evelyn & Arden and though the ending felt a bit rushed, I was still thoroughly invested in the story and characters and enjoyed this trip through time.

Many thanks to St. Martin's Press, Wednesday Books & Netgally for the ARC.