Our Infinite Fates

"Even when there's no big joy... There's still the small joy. A sunset. A flask of tea. Your hand in mine."

Oh my HEART, this book! I absolutely adored it. I could not put it down. Evelyn and Arden and their love leaps off the page. The writing and prose is beautiful, and the story itself is as well.

Evelyn is cursed in every lifetime to be murdered by Arden before they turn 18. Over infinite lifetimes, they are reincarnated and fated to find one another, indescribably drawn to one another over and over. The story weaves through their different lives together, while repeatedly returning to the 2022 timeline, as Evelyn tries to piece together the why behind their cursed fate and uncover the origin to hopefully bring them out of the cycle. Their repeated mantra of "I love you, and I have loved you, and I will love you." was so beautiful to witness.

While the story is technically YA as they are 17, their lifetimes of experience made the story read more like an adult romance. Highly recommend, especially if you enjoyed The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue or the Divine Rivals duology.

I listened to the audio which was so magical, I could not stop listening. I do think it would have been equally wonderful to read with my eyes and savor the story.

HIGHLY recommend this one for fans of:
- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue or Divine Rivals duology
- Magical realism
- Fated romance through lifetimes because "Love is the only thing worth believing in."
- Beautiful prose

Thank you to Macmillian Audio for this ALC! Our Infinite Fates is on shelves March 4, 2025! My opinions are my own.

I love you & I have loved you & I will love you
Evelyn and Arden have loved each other in a thousand past lives but they have killed each other in every one. 💔 This book was so devastatingly beautiful! 😭 I'm still crying! It is written so beautifully and the characters grip your heart. 😭 5 stars! I can't even begin to explain how good this was. Thank you Macmillan Audio for the Audio Arc! The audiobook was so amazing, it sucks you in immediately! Sofia Oxenham's voice was magical!

4.5 stars

Thank you to Macmillan Audio for the ALC!

Evelyn and Arden keep coming back to each other in different lives, different bodies, and different times, but never live past the age of eighteen. In every single lifetime, Arden finds and kills Evelyn before they turn eighteen, and they die together before being reincarnated. While Evelyn feels an inexplicable pull to Arden in every life, she has no idea why.

This book is absolutely stunning. The writing is gorgeous and the while it is a little bit slow, the pace adds to the sense of longing between the characters. Evelyn and Arden are truly soul mates in every sense and I fell in love with their story. I adored the way they echoed "I love you, and I have loved you, and I will love you" throughout their journey. My heart ached for them, and when I found out why they kept dying at the age of eighteen, I literally gasped. This is one of those books that will stick in my memories for a long time.

I listened to the audio which was beautifully done. Sofia Oxenham was an incredible narrator who brought depth to the story.

I received an ALC of Our Infinite Fates from NetGalley. All opinions are my own.

I enjoyed this story but I had much higher expectations for it based on the description. The writing is beautiful, but for a story about fated mates intertwined over a thousand years the only real feelings you get for 70-75% of the book is hatred and longing. It isn’t until around 75-80% when you find out what caused our two MCs to be fated to love and kill each other forever. I will say, the twist of the how/why it happened, was really enjoyable for me. Especially with the perspective it gave our MCs after so many lifetimes once it was understood.

Another thing I enjoyed is that the timeline jumped around to different time periods and places in our MCs history, revealing what their lives were like, how they found each other and their loved ones, what they endured through time, etc.

All in all a good story and I would one that I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys fated mates/reincarnation tropes.

I was provided both an ALC and an ARC of this book via Netgalley, all opinions are my own.

This follows Evelyn and Arden through a thousand years as they have fallen in love and he has betrayed and murdered in each one before she turns 18. She can't remember why he hunts her or why they are bound to each other, and he won't tell her. All she knows that in this life, her younger sister is dying and her bone marrow is the one thing that might save her. She has to evade Arden long enough for the doctors to perform atleast her part of the procedure to give her sister a chance. The only problem is she hasn't figured out who Arden is masquerading as in this life as he has hidden himself very well this time and she is running out of time before her 18th birthday.

This alternates in varying timelines from the present day to past lives that Arden and Evelyn have lived. I liked that this takes us back to several different places in history, and Evelyn isn't always a woman and Arden isn't always a man and they aren't always in a traditional heterosexual relationship. Gender wasn't a preference for either one of them, it was more the connection they shared. Sometimes they are already together while others they have to find one another and that spark takes hold when they reunite again and they remember who they are. I do wish we would have spent a little more time in these past chapters getting to know the characters and their backstories a bit more. They were significant turning points in the relationship between the two main characters and would have lent a bit more to the character development and helped us understand how deep their connection really was and why they were willing to make the bargain they did.

We eventually find out why Arden murders Evelyn every 18 years just before her birthday, but it comes toward the very end and felt a bit rushed. I was a bit disappointed with the ending despite very much enjoying the rest of the book. I thought the reveal was good and the concept was great, I just wanted a bit more development and explanation to go with that plotline. Overall I did enjoy getting to know our characters and their relationship.

I was truly expecting a gut wrenching tale, in the likes of Addie LaRue. But unfortunately it fell a tad short for me. I absolutely loved the setup and how our characters are stuck in this curse. It really was just missing something, a soul, that extra feeling to connect to these characters. We are being told about their epic love and being reincarnated every 18 years but not really shown why their love was so strong or how they got there. It felt unfinished and bare bones.

Jumping between many timelines and recollections was a good plot device, I liked the experiences and memories they were able to keep. The highlight is Evelyn’s 2022 timeline plight to save her sister with a bone marrow transplant, her relationship with her mother and the life she wanted to keep living.

The writing was beautiful and I found myself trying to remember some of the phrases and poetic thoughts, a bit hard to do on audio! The phrase they repeat the most and adds that extra needed feeling for me was “I love you. I have loved you, and I will love you.” - reminiscent of “I remember you” from Addie LaRue. Definitely recommend for the prose alone.

Thank you to Macmillan Audio for the free audiobook copy to review. Narration was performed by Sofia Oxenham and I really enjoyed her delivery and accent. She added an otherworldly atmosphere to the novel that kept me interested in the story.

Thank you Net Galley for the ARC.

So this would be great for those that love Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. With that said this story isn't nearly as compelling. While the whole story is a very interesting premise it didn't really grip you until 80% and then felt very rushed. I wish we had more of their relationship but I also think a duel POV would have done this story some good.

Ultimately if you like two people in love for 1000 years and want snips of their life and are ok with them Romeo and Julieting themselves A LOT this is for you.

4.25⭐
Spice level:🫑(lots of yearning)

Evelyn and Arden are locked in some sort of curse where they are fated to meet and then die just before they turn 18. Usually it's Arden looking Evelyn, but sometimes Evelyn gets there first. They are born and live in different locations and times throughout history, not always as the same gender as before. Despite this, theirs is a story rooted in love and fated to die nearly together each life and come back to repeat the 18 year cycle, due to an agreement that was made with another party that Evelyn cannot even remember. After 1000 years of this cycle, Evelyn is trying to hold out long enough to save her sister in this life, before Arden catches up with her.

So the comparison was to The Invisible Life of Addie Larue and This is How You Lose the Time War, both of which I've read and this is fairly apt. I think the resonance with Addie comes through in the curse of living over centuries but never getting beyond 18 where as Time War comes in at the interplay of this couple, fated to murder/die yet not fueled by hate. I do not want to share too much more, but I will say that you spend the majority of the story not quite understanding what led these two to these circumstances.

Thank you to Macmillan Audio for an ALC on NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own. This book is due to be published 3/4/25. I'll be posting to Instagram right around publication.

My favorite thing about this book was to writing. The writing was so lyrical and beautiful! When it comes to the overall story I was very underwhelmed. With the beautiful writing and the idea of the overall plot I was just expecting more. I don’t feel like a got a true sense of relationship between the characters. I was expecting an epic romance with yearning. Sadly instead I wasn’t invested in their love story at all. I think that has to do with the fact our characters are changed genders in the different timelines. We also don’t spend enough time in those different timelines. The ending was a huge shock I wasn’t expecting and sadly not in a good way for me.

Thank you NetGalley for the advanced audio copy!

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley!

I really liked the premise of this book! Two souls intertwined and destined to kill each other over and over again? Sign me up!

Unfortunately the execution didn't quite work for me. For most of the book I just didn't care about their relationship. The main character knew they were doomed to die and yet still felt so in love with the person about to kill them for no real reason. We did find out important information in the last like 15% which explained things more but by that point I just really didn't care.

I also felt like the jumps through time didn't give us enough time with the characters in those periods to be meaningful but instead made the storytelling feel kind of jerky as you kept getting pulled out of the main timeline.

So sadly this didn't work for me, but hopefully it will work for others.

4.5 stars

What a beautifully written book. It takes place over multiple timelines and lifetimes. It is a slow, steady pace with not a lot of action but we learn so much about the two main characters through the present day and their past selves. I liked the narrator for this book and found the audio hard to stop as the story went on.

Thank you Macmillan Audio for providing this audiobook for review consideration via NetGalley.

Our Infinite Fates is beautiful, haunting and epic. It is only YA because of the mortal age of the main characters, but the story truly appeals to readers all ages. I especially recommend it highly to anyone who loved The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. Perhaps I loved this even more.

This was a 5 star read for me until the last like 10%. I don't do well when it feels open ended, but it also was not - not- a happy ending... still kind of struggling on how I feel. I do think the narrator did an excellent job for the audio, and the story was easy to follow while listening!

📚 #BOOKREVIEW 📚
Our Infinite Fates by Laura Steven
⭐️⭐️ / Pages: 346 / Genre: YA Fantasy
Audiobook Narrator: Sofia Oxenham
Duration: 11 hours 12 minutes
Release Date: March 4, 2025

Evelyn and Arden are cursed to relive their lives over and over again. And in each life, Arden murders Evelyn before her eighteenth birthday and then the cycle repeats itself. Each time they’re reborn, their souls are the same and they remember their past lives but they are born different people. Sometimes male, sometimes female, but they always find each other, fall in love, and then Arden has the sudden urge to kill her before her birthday.

The Groundhog Day trope is one of my favorites, but I really hated it in this one. Usually, the couple figures out a way to do things differently to make small changes until they finally get the outcome they want. This one just kept cycling with no resolution. It was so boring and I didn’t enjoy the flowery writing either. A definite DNF for me if I didn’t have to write a review in exchange for the free audiobook.

The only thing I liked about it was the lovely British accent of the narrator Sofia Oxenham.

Thank you, @macmillan.audio and @NetGalley for my free audiobook. #MacAudio2025 #macmillanaudio

wow. just wow. i’ve been following this book since may of 2024 when i saw a tiktok marketing it as if ‘exile’ by taylor swift was a book. i knew from the jump i would love this book. i was right. 



i was fortunate enough to get an eARC and an ALC of ‘Our Infinite Fates’ (thanks @wednesdaybooks and @macmillan.audio!) 



this book follows Evelyn and Arden across lifetimes. Evelyn remembers bits and pieces of her past lives. She also remembers that in every single one, she’s been murdered before her eighteenth birthday by Arden, a supernatural being whose soul―and survival―is tethered to hers.

the problem is that she’s quite fond of the life she’s in now, and her little sister needs her for a bone marrow transplant in order to stay alive. set in Wales, 2022, Evelyn, now Bran, must find the centuries-old devil who hunts her through each life―before they find her first… figure out why she’s being hunted and finally break their curse.. oh, and try not to fall in love with the very thing destined to kill her. 



the writing in this book was beautiful. it was romantic and lyrical and its not often that i find myself unable to put a book or an audio down. there were flashbacks to previous lives that not only provided insight and helped move the story along but also had me asking even more questions about the story of Evelyn and Arden. this story also manages a nod to societal issues and changes in history such as humans affinity for war & conflict, our relationship with the earth and its resources, the dealings of mental health, and the LGBTQIA+ community (some of the more beautiful and meaningful flashbacks involved mm and ff pairings!)



and the ending? the entire last 10% of this book had me on edge. literally screaming, crying, throwing up, anxiously tapping on my kindle, furiously adjusting audio speeds, all of the above. this books ending not only destroyed me but put me back together seemingly at the same time.



i could probably go on and on for hours about this book but please just take my word for it and go read it! 



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

wow this one was interesting and kept me invested! it reminded me of heartless hunter & the invisible life of addie larue. the two MC’s are drawn to each other in every life but one is being hunted while the other hunts them, ALSO one cannot survive without the other…

imagine if someone cursed you where your greatest love turns out to be the person who destroys you in every life ☹️

This book had it's hold on me from the second I read the comps. Addie La Rue meets This Is How You Lose the Time War- sign me up. Those are 2 of my favorite books ever. However, I was skeptical that any book cold really live up to that comparison. Talk about setting the bar high! But Laura Steven does just that, writing a beautifully romantic story about 2 cursed souls, bound to fall in love only to kill each other before their 18th birthday over and over and over again. Our Infinite Fates is one of the best YA books I have ever read!

Since before she can remember, Evelyn has met death at the hands of Arden (or sometimes vice versa) for hundreds of years. With each reincarnation, she is able to hold onto a little bit more of herself from past lives, but has now idea why she and Arden are connected of why he is compelled to hunt her down in each life. Told through her POV, the narrative moves from the present day arc to events in past lives seamlessly, slowly developing character depth and the bound between them. The prose throughout is poetic, and the dilemma excruciating. The hardest part for Evelyn is not knowing why this is their fate, and despite his love for her, Arden cannot (or will not) share the reason.

Sofia Oxenham gives a stellar performance in her delivery for the audiobook. With such emotional text it could be easy to over do it. But here, she finds the perfect amount of angst, longing, regret and care in her voice and especially in the dialogue between the two main characters. It was a wonderful experience to listen to the audio alongside reading from the book (my preferred way of reading) but you don't need the text in front of you to keep your attention and focus here- Sofia's delivery makes the listening experience immersive all on it's own.

I was glued to the story from the first few lines and did not put it done unless absolutely necessary from beginning to end. It is devastatingly brilliant in every way. As someone who has read a great deal of YA fantasy as an adult, Our Infinite Fates offers something truly original and special, setting the standard even higher for what I want from a five star read.

🌎 ARC REVIEW 🌎

OUR INFINITE FATES by Laura Steven
5/5 🌟
Pub date 🇺🇸: Mar 4th

Where do I even start with this one? I am so grateful to be able to read such a creative, well-written story. Discovering books and authors like these are what got me into this hobby, and continue to give me great joy. I'm looking forward to see what Laura puts out next.

The books follows a couple, reincarnated again and again through the centuries. They are fates to meet, fall in love and die each cycle. The catch is that he always murders her, and she doesn't know why.

Please read if you like the following:

✨️ A unique lense in which to view queer love
✨️ Historical backdrops to romantic tales
✨️ The love and suffering of living forever
✨️ Mind-blowing twists that make everything make sense

Thank you, Netgalley, Macmillan Audio, amd Wednesday books for the amazing review copy.

I'm going to start by saying I really enjoyed this. I loved the concept and Sofia Oxenham did a great job bringing the characters to life with her narration. That said, it wasn't quite what I was expecting based on the description of the book.

Big content warning, her little sister has cancer and her driving force of the book, something that was just completely glossed over in the description I was provided on NetGalley (it does look like on Goodreads and StoryGraph, they at least mention her sister needs bone marrow transplants so I'm hopeful that the back cover copy won't gloss over this). This wasn't a dealbreaker for me, but I think it is something people should be aware about going in.

The "hunting down a devil" plotline was completely non-existent for most of the book as well, instead it was focusing on Evelyn trying to convince Arden to let her live long enough to do the bone marrow transplant.

The timeline hopping via flashbacks was interesting and I enjoyed seeing their love play out in different lives, but the transitions were a bit jarring and they started to feel a bit repetitive.

This should have been a five star read for me, but the execution fell short of my hopes. Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan Young Listeners for the advanced copy!

This book quietly devastated me for the first 80%, but unfortunately fell a little flatter around the end when the twist came.

I was very engrossed in Evelyn & Arden’s story throughout their many lives. Laura Steven’s writing is so immediate and painted such a vivid portrait of the many disparate cultures they lived (and died) in. The romance was tragic, and I felt as angry and hopeless as Evelyn did during the big reveal in their Welsh life!

But the spell ended a bit when we reached the underworld portion. I found that section to be a large departure from the more magical realist tone of the rest of the book, in a way that didn’t really resonate.

I also felt like there just wasn’t enough catharsis in the ending, although the epilogue did make me cry.

Would I recommend this book? Yes, but I wish it had been a true 5 star as I was sure it would be for the first 80%.

I haven’t posted this review online yet, but will do so before publication.