We’re following Evelyn & Arden who have met in every lifetime and in every lifetime they kill each other.
However Evelyn doesn’t know why Arden keeps on hunting her down so thats where the mystery comes in.

This reminded me of Addie Larue

old in many time settings, it was truly remarkable how the author weaved all of them together. The twists gutted me, then fixed me to make me whole again solely to leave me wounded in the next scene.

I am rarely as immersed in a book as I was in this. From the opening page I wanted to know everything. Who are these people, reborn every 18 years and why do they keep killing each other? Why do they seem to fall in love during most of their lives as well? I was enraptured by this mystery and the brutality and obsession between Evelyn and Arden. Evelyn’s voice is so clear and her hazy memories of past lives added to my intrigue.

The main action occurs in modern-day Wales, and Evelyn (in this life Branwen) awaits her 18th birthday with fear. She hasn’t encountered Arden yet, but knows they could appear anywhere at any time for her murder, but her 14yo sister, Gracie, is dying of Leukemia. Once she figures out who Arden is, can she convince them to let her live long enough to offer a bone marrow transplant and save her sister?

The writing in this was lyrical. And I got an especially strong sense of Arden’s artistic and sensitive nature, the prose and poetry, the interest in animals and botany. Evelyn’s continued ability to love and hope despite being murdered for centuries was beautifully heartbreaking. I could feel every bit of their tragic love story.

I was also SHOCKED by the final twist and did not see it coming.

A couple hesitations for me: I looked back at the plot days after reading and wondered what had actually happened. If I rated this simply on vibes alone, this would be a 10/10, but if I analyze it a little closer, I’ll admit I felt slightly distant from Evelyn’s emotions about family while feeling very near the emotions about Arden.

One other aspect that was difficult for me was the mental gymnastics it took for me to readjust to each past life. There are short chapters on the Western Front, in China, Africa, El Salvador, etc. These occur in different moments throughout history and that took some effort as a reader already. On top of this, I was never sure what gender or sexual orientation our two main characters (truly more non-binary immortal beings than humans) would be in each iteration. For some audiences this is a selling point, I know; for me, it felt a little like I got reading whiplash.

Finally, there was one vaguely open door scene and quite a bit of lust throughout the book. It’s marketed and written as teens/YA fantasy, but with that I’d probably recommend it to ages 18+. I’m aware I’m conservative in this regard.

The bottom line: I really loved this, but had a few minor issues that held me back from giving this a bright and shiny five stars.

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

Officially me at Laura Steven after reading this book. Well I guess not technically since this is my first book by her, but you get the idea. It definitely won’t be the last though.

I had super high expectations going into this so I was really nervous it wouldn’t live up to them. But from the first chapter, I realized I had nothing to worry about. The book pulled me in effortlessly from start to finish and every time I put it down I was anticipating the next chance I would have to pick it back up.

Reading about Evelyn and Arden’s relationship really felt like someone had found the perfect and most beautiful way to show what soulmates are. And actually, I think it’s a testament to how good of a writer Laura Steven is that I was able to 100% believe in their feelings, even before the whole story of how they fell in love was told.

I also really just enjoyed the writing style. I know it’s something that might not be for everyone and I can just hear some people saying it reads like 2013 Pinterest quotes but I’ll have to politely disagree if that happens. Some of the quotes were so good I literally had to stop to go back and highlight them - which is something I’ve never done on Netgalley. I will say there are some run on sentences here and there that made me thought I missed a period, but I really don’t care about that sort of thing much.

Even the aspects of this story that I did not think would work for me did; specifically flashbacks, which I usually loathe reading. It was hard not to love them when they were written so well though. Not only did each one manage to add layers to Evelyn and Arden’s relationship but even the time periods they were in in each one felt like I was directly transported to that time. The amount of research that went into different time periods and cultures during them definitely shows, and definitely pays off. Even the ways the characters spoke was tailored to fit the time period of each flashback.

AND THE LAST FLASHBACK?? Nearly threw my phone straight across the room and risked waking up my whole house just so I would have someone to tell. Just when I thought we had all the answers we were hit with that and it just added a whole extra layer to an already gorgeous story.

WAIT I THOUGHT I WAS DONE BUT I CANT NOT MENTION THE ENDING!!! The last line specifically - gutted. Gobsmacked. Absolutely perfect.

Overall, I don’t know what to say other than read this. Actually, it was so good you may have to download Netgalley right now just to apply for the arc because I cannot wait until March for people to be talking about how good this was. For now, I’m going to give it a 4.5 but that might go up when I sit with it for a few days.


~🅞🅥🅔🅡🅐🅛🅛 🅡🅐🅣🅘🅝🅖: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ . 5~

I received this book as an ARC.

Wow, this book really put you through the emotions. Quite unlike anything I’ve ever read, I devoured this book as followed the journey of the FMC and MMC through time. I found their relationship to be heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time and only made me like them more.

Easiest five stars I've giving in awhile. I was instantly immersed in the worlds of Evelyn and AArden.i loved the back and forth timelines. I will definitely be recommending.

Absolutely loved this read! What an intriguing and unique plot. The writing was impeccable with wonderful character development. Definitely recommend!

This was the most original romance I've read in a long time. The plotline initially intrigued me and it didn't disappoint as we learned Evelyn and Arden's love story throughout the ages. I laughed, I cried, I screamed (you know at what) but overall, I loved it. There were points where I would have liked the story expanded on a bit (especially when we got to The Underrelm) but as it is YA, I'll forgive it. That ending was bittersweet and honestly a bit gut-wrenching.

How do I start?! The premise of this book, my goodness. They marry and on their wedding day they are forced to kill each other, and repeat this cycle in every life before their 18th birthday. I loved it all, from start to finish. Our Infinite Fates was so beautifully written, I was hooked! You could feel the love these characters had for each other from the very first page and all I wanted was for them to have a happy ending. The story’s progression is slow and as we reach the top, it’s like watching a thriller where if you blink you’ll miss the most important scene! I just loved everything about it!!

Evelyn and Arden have loved each other in every lifetime and in each lifetime, they are fated to kill each other. Evelyn doesn't know why this is their fate, but when her path crosses with Arden yet again she is determined to find a way to change their destiny.

I enjoyed reading Evelyn and Ardens story and particularly enjoyed seeing the chapters that showed their lives in different eras. You see how they are drawn to each other in every lifeline and how they meet their end. When you are in the current lifetime you see, Evelyn is determined to save her sick sister and in doing so she has to find a way to elude her fate. As Evelyn digs deeper you learn about how they ended up with this tragic fate.

This was a quick and enjoyable read.

Devastatingly beautiful, heartbreaking, epic, and yet searing hopeful. What a book! This is going to be an instant classic. I fell in love with Evelyn and Arden and their journey through time and am still thinking about it days later.

OMG I finally was able to read it! This book was my most anticipated books to read! I couldn’t wait for 2025 but I’m so happy that I was able to read the advanced copy of it!

Two souls that reincarnate for a thousand years, love each other, find each other but before they turn eighteen, they have to kill each other.

Arden and Evelyn have been in love with each other for… well, for a very long time, hundreds of lives spent together in all of the parts of the world, they had different bodies, genders, names, backgrounds, stories… even lived apart for a long time before meeting, but in every life, Arden was able to find Evelyn and before their eighteenth birthday, they had to die from each others hand.

Through the book, we have a Present Day, a story about a girl named Bran, she lives a normal life with her mother and little sister Gracie that has cancer. Bran remembers a lot of her past lives and knows that Arden will find her soon and kill her, their eighteenth birthday is around the corner but Bran needs more time in order to save her sisters life by donating bone marrow.
Bran sees Arden in everybody, afraid he’s hiding somewhere close and waits for the perfect time to kill her and reincarnate again and again… but Bran is sick of it, she wants to live, she doesn’t understand why Arden has to do it…

So, who is Arden in the Present Day? Will Bran (Evelyn) get her answers of why he is hunting her? Why he has to kill her while the love they have for each other is bigger than the universe? Did they make a deal with some old gods, witches or maybe with the devil himself? Will she be able to trick him, or maybe convince him to continue living this life?

In the book there are a lot of time jumps into their past lives, we learn who they were, how their love was growing, in each chapter there are small hints of ‘why’s and when’s’ …

The story and the idea of the book is PHENOMENAL!!! I adored each chapter!!! Such a tragic love story, full of hope and trust! Arden was my favorite character in all of their forms.

However, I have to put my two cents because for me, the book wasn’t a complete 5 stars as much as I wanted…
I feel that the ending was rushed! The last few chapters when we finally understand the “Why”, I just didn’t like it, it didn’t click with me… Evelyn’s true Mother, why it was so rushed and short?! Thousand of years, hundreds of reincarnations and just as Arden enlightened Evelyn, so simply and fast they resolved the issue?! (I’m trying to write this review without any spoilers).

No, it was strange to me… and so easily giving up on their Love? I honestly didn’t like it, I expected more, expected the plot to be more complex and unique giving such an amazing story of love and reincarnation !!!

Also, with such a unique, deep and profound love, I expected to have a little spice and it was none! I understand it’s a YA book, but honestly, with such a plot, it NEEDED to be an Adult Book!

<b> <i> Publish Date: March 4, 2025 </b> </i>

<b> Thank you @NetGalley for an eARC of this book! </b>

ahhhh. i really liked the idea of this (& the ending!) but i think my favorite thing about reincarnation stories is seeing people fall in love over and over again—but most of the romance in this was based on the history. as well, i think the book leaned too much into the fantasy, as i think it could've been so much more poignant if it focused on the reincarnation as a speculative element, because it wasn't 10000% a high fantasy, but the elements of it in a story like this felt out of place—but i suppose i was too focused on the addie larue comp in the beginning, as i thought it'd be more of a divine rivals/addie kind of book, where the fantasy is secondary to the romance. however, it's a really great story, i think i was just confused by my expectations!

The most romantic book I've read all year is one in which two soulmates reincarnate and murder each other for a thousand years. Who would've thought?

This is a romance that transcends time, culture, gender. It's about hope, despair, devotion, betrayal. I've always wanted a love story where two soulmates are reincarnated and always find each other (and are in love regardless of gender), and this novel is IT. "The love of all my lives"!

My least favorite version of Evelyn and Arden, surprisingly, was the modern day one we got the most of. I found their journey through the centuries more compelling than the supernatural explanation and resolution. After following the two of them for lifetimes, the ending was a bit sudden and a little anticlimactic. Still, this book was beautifully written. My absolute favorite parts were Arden's poems. I cried.

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC!

"They've loved each other in a thousand lifetimes. They've killed each other in every one."

I mean, who wouldn't want to read this book after seeing this quote? The concept of fated lovers reincarnating only to kill each other again had me immediately intrigued.

The brief chapters of their past lives in between the main chapters were definitely my favorite to read because each one was so different and unique. They kept me wanting to read more. I also really enjoyed learning how Evelyn and Arden rediscovered each other and observing how their dynamic had changed during their many lives together.

That being said, the concept of alternating between their past lives and the current timeline gave me a hard time finding any real connection or chemistry between Evelyn and Arden. Each time we were transported back in time, I felt a sense of disconnection from the story. Additionally, the incorporation of these flashbacks did not seem to contribute significantly to the overall plot or discoveries later in the book. The ending also felt somewhat rushed, leaving me wanting a bit more in the end, but that might just be me being greedy.

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for the eARC in exchange for an honest review.

I absolutely adored this book and the world Laura Steven created. The relationship between Evelyn and Arden is both tragic and beautiful.

This book blended components of mystery, romance, and fantasy novels and turned it into one super original books. I haven’t read anything like this before!

The only issue I have with this book is the ending, which is why I have it four stars. I feel like it was a bit far fetched and came out of nowhere. I would have loved to seen more hints throughout the book about what was to come. But overall I really enjoyed this book!

This book. THIS book is why I read. To feel all the things that people hide from. The hurt the beautiful the sad the grief just LIFE. Omg I’ll never get over this book.

I bawl whenever I even try to explain what this is about.

They love each other. Deeply. For thousands of lifetimes, literally. But they don’t survive it. Not past their 18th birthday. Every single lifetime ends in the same results. They leave behind their families and each other repeatedly. CAN YOU IMAGINE??????

Just go read it immediately. It broke me and put me back together over and over and I loved every minute of it.

The easiest 5 star rating I've given all year, and I've already read over 200 books (so that's saying a lot). This was so moving, deep, raw, and intriguing. You'll instantly be swept up, and it just takes you on a journey, bending time, and what you think could be real. Told in many time settings, it was truly remarkable how the author weaved all of them together. The twists gutted me, then fixed me to make me whole again solely to leave me wounded in the next scene. The ending was quite lovely, and I'm so thankful it ended in this way. I will forever think about Evelyn and Ardan. I want to quote so many things from this due to how poetic this book was with words. However, I'm not allowed to while it's in the ARC stages. Just know this IS a fantasy novel that will sweep you off your feet and linger on your mind for a while after you've finished it. Beautiful, breathtaking, painful, eye-opening, and inspiring all at one time!

I received this ARC from NetGalley and St Martin's Press to read/review. All of the statements above are my true opinions after fully reading this book.

I am SO glad I was able to snag Our Infinite Fates as a 'read now' on Netgalley- I have heard nothing but incredible things about this book from close friends, and the more I heard about it, the more desperate I was to get my hands on this book. Laura Steven absolutely lived up to my expectations- this book is nothing less than stunning. It's taken me a few days to gather my thoughts enough to even write this review, but the fact that I genuinely can't stop thinking about this book should say something!

Our Infinite Fates is the first book I've come across where comparisons to The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and Divine Rivals actually ring true. The concept, the characters, the pure lyricism of it all- my chest physically ached finishing this book in the best way possible. Laura Steven writes in such a way that had me yearning and hurting and FEELING right alongside our two main characters, Arden and Evelyn. This is one of those books that caught my attention by the first page- the souls of two people fated to kill each other, reincarnating over and over throughout hundreds of lifetimes? This is the kind of book you get sucked into without realizing how beautiful and devastating it is (until its punching you in the gut). And honestly, that's my favorite kind of book.

Laura Steven has some of the most beautiful, poetic writing I've come across, and I think Our Infinite Fates is one of those books that will haunt me for a long time (in the best way possible). I cannot wait to see this book released in March of 2025. Truly one of the most delicious reads I've had the pleasure of indulging in this year.

This book reminds me of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue in all the best ways! Laura’s writing style is so beautiful and I loved the way reincarnation was explored!

Incredibly fascinating, captivating writing. The cover art is attractive and well done, the formatting of the book is just as satisfying. If this is a debut work it is beyond expectations.