I found this book to be achingly beautiful—the emotions glide off the page effortlessly. The writing truly spoke to me, and I’ll definitely be keeping up with this author. Evelyn was my favorite character, especially because of how powerfully she felt; her emotions were raw and compelling. However, I do wish there had been more dialogue between the characters to build tension and deepen their relationships. My biggest disappointment was the ending—it had the potential for a much more intense buildup. Overall, though, this was a moving and beautifully written read.

The premise of this one was very intriguing and I couldn't wait to read. I loved that the connection between the leads didn't depend on their gender and they always found each other. The pacing was a little slow at times and the flashbacks distracted from the plot in the current timeline

What a beautiful love story!

This book had my heart swooning and breaking almost every other chapter. The love these characters have for each other is beyond anything I think we can comprehend. It was beautiful and poetic (quite literally at times), and I couldn't help but fall in love with it.

Evelyn and Arden are timeless. Their love grew beyond the sufferings they endured, and that is why I think this book has resonated so deep for me. They love that you could feel through both of these characters and their hopes, their longings, pain and grief was very well written. It was a love so deep and powerful, and now it's all I want. I feel like I could read this one over and over again and never feel any differently. Even the story itself had a very timeless quality to it. Also this book took a lot of twists I didn't really expect which was also very pleasant.

The only thing that knocked this book from being a five star read for me was the big "reveal" of what the curse/deal was. I just felt like it felt almost out of place if that makes sense. And it just didn't fit the story in my opinion. But other than that, I really enjoyed the story and the arcs.

I would like to give a huge thank you to the author, the publisher, and to NetGalley for the opportunity to read this e-ARC in exchange for my honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Rating: 4.7/5

THE YEARNING!!! Poetic and hauntingly beautiful, Our Infinite Fates stirred something deep within my heart.

I want to crawl inside of this book and make a nest. The prose is breathtaking and soulful, and I could not put this down. It’s definitely a slow burn, and I relished in the sultry atmosphere.

My rating: 5⭐️

Read if you enjoy:
✨ star-crossed lovers
✨ soul-stirring prose and poetry
✨ nonlinear, time-jumping across the world
✨ books like The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and How to Lose The Time War

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

This story was gorgeous. Beautiful prose, amazing plot, incredibly rich atmosphere and the characters were just so lovable. I loved every single moment of it. This is one of the best standalones I’ve ever read! Highly recommend, 5 stars, and if you’re a fan of Addie LaRue or Divine Rivals. I think you’ll enjoy this one too a lot.

Our Infinite Fates entranced me. Not only is it about the love for a sibling, but it's also about love which spans centuries and lifetimes. If we were always destined to lose the ones we love time and time again, would we continue to love? Is this not a question we have to ask ourselves even without infinite lifetimes? For Evelyn and Arden it's complicated by murder. By the fact that they keep dying and Evelyn doesn't know why. But even so, her power and courage to love remains almost infinite. The mystery of the Why and also if she can save her sister, propels us through Our Infinite Fates.

What a beautiful story… gosh I just finished and feel overcome with emotions. I pretty much loved every part of the story and all the time periods and mystery and build up. It was romantic, heart-wrenching, mysterious, unique, confusing, and bitter-sweet.

Don’t even know what else to say except read it 🥰.

And I absolutely LOVED the repeating quote of: “I love you, and I have loved you, and I will love you.”

Also I only listened to a bit of the audio but really enjoyed that and thought the narrators voice matched the story really really well!!

I really enjoyed this story and following our two main characters through time. Like our FMC, I could not come up with the real reason they were doomed to this fate. I was anxious for the final reveal. It was also very interesting to see the FMC grow throughout her lifetimes despite not remembering all of her lives.

I was both deeply excited and strangely uncertain about this book, because I’m not a fan of reincarnation stories (not a spoiler), but I am a fan of deep, abiding, stabby love, and angst. And I came out of it feeling the same way? As in I kinda love it but also am heartbroken from it? Idk how to put it in words that convey the exact way I feel about this book. Maybe Arden would know.

What I can tell you, is that if you loved The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, this book is for you. To be clear, these books are not at all the same, but the vibes are. They just made me ✨ feel ✨ the same way. For one, the writing is hauntingly gorgeous, like music for the eyes. Whether we’re in the present day or in an earlier time, each turn of phrase and line is sheer poetry. While this book is much more focused on the love story of the main characters while Addie was primarily about Addie (duh), the writing will similarly break your heart and make you weep, both with its beauty and the eons of sorrow in it. They also both left me a sense of melancholia that I cannot seem to shake.

Evelyn and Arden may appear in different bodies and locations and eras, but in every iteration, each of them is singularly themself, their souls instantly recognizable. And it’s what keeps them constantly drawn to each other. No matter that eventually one has to end the other, and the cycle continues. Never has brutal evisceration been so romantic as with these two. They may be immortal adversaries, but never has being each other’s demise looked so attractive. Some of their “past life” scenes were almost too hard to bear, time and time again seeing them not just suffer through this odd fate, but the conditions in some were almost too harrowing to think about.

Ngl, for the longest time I had no idea how this was gonna get resolved, and I’m still not sure how I feel about the ending. It gets slightly weird before it gets better, but even then I was left…wanting. Having said that, I was also left with a sense of hopefulness and optimism. This book broke me at every step and also built me up brick by brick as it went along. Idk this is going to be one of those books I think about a lot, and whose words I’ll go back to repeatedly.

Very well written. I rate this a solid 4.5! The way these to MCs would sacrifice quite literally their life to essentially save each other is amazing. I really hope we get a second installment of this story to see if in fact Evelyn and Arden can find love again.

Thank you to NetGalley, Laura Steven and St. Martin’s Press for the ARC!

This was such a fantastic, interesting premise and the parts that worked really really worked. It was refreshing to find something unique in the Romantasy Boom where everything is some variation of what’s popular right now. I loved the multiple timelines and the plot. I had a good time with this book. If I had to give a song to this book it would be “The Prophecy” by Taylor Swift.

My biggest issue is that because of the way the timeline flowed, there was very little character growth. It’s almost like more time was spent on the multiple timelines than this one that’s the current timeline of the book, but even then there wasn’t much time spent in any of them — so it was a little strange. However, I enjoyed the book overall. This is more than just a love story. It tackles heartbreak, fate, and love. If you’re a fan of popular YA fantasy books (Powerless comes to mind!) you’ll really like this one, too.

Laura Steven has a beautiful writing style and I look forward to more of her work.

Overall Rating: 3⭐️
Spice Rating: 🔥🔥🔥 - One open-door scene
Language Rating: !
Genre: Magical Realism
Reader Age: Adult - this book is marketed as YA because the main characters are around the age of eighteen; however, due to sexual explicit content, I would not recommend this book to anyone under the age of 18.
Content Considerations:

I found the concept of this book very intriguing and found myself very invested in the first few chapters; however, this book kind of fell flat for me.

I initially really enjoyed getting to see glimpses into passed lives lived by the main characters; however, those glimpses were so short that you didn’t get to fully understand them as characters and watch their love fully develop in any time line. Instead of feeling immersed in their love story, I felt like I only got to scratch the surface.

Additionally, I really struggled with the end of the book. I struggled watching the main characters make the choice that they did because despite it still being a large sacrifice, it kind of felt like giving up. The last two chapters also gave very little resolution to the story. The second to last chapter felt super out of place and the last chapter left me wanting to much more. Not only did they have to give up their love for each other, but their memories and currently lives. It just didn’t sit right with me.

Although overall I can say that I liked it, I have very mixed feelings about this book. I’ll start with the good. I loved the concept. Lovers fated to kill each other over and over in every life? The concept had me immediately. The way the concept played out broadly was fascinating as well. Seeing the different iterations across time and place with those times and places being so far reaching was really cool. Again, love the concept. But it fell flat for me in two big ways. The first was the MMC and FMC. Because there were so many iterations of them it didn’t feel like we truly ever got to know them beyond the three or four tenants that were the same across their lives. We never truly got to see them fall in love, we just had to accept they were and were fated to be so forever. I really struggled with that because although I could feel the tangible trauma ties between them, I felt nothing towards them. Instead of feeling immersed in the story, I felt like an outsider looking in. That combined with how repetitive the story became really made it difficult for me to push through to the end. Which brings me to the second way this fell flat for me - the big reveal at the end. After everything these characters had been through, the reveal felt so bland. I think it part because of the language that was chosen to refer to what was going on between them and why, it took me right out of the fantasy of it all and jarringly brought me to the real world. It just felt like such a let down that that’s why everything had happened and even the second to last chapter didn’t help me understand why. Then the end, while hopeful, just felt obvious and unsatisfying. Though throughout the book there was some truly beautiful prose, both the poetry and the writing of the story itself, I can’t overcome the big ways it fell flat. That being said, while I did not love it, I can see this having a big appeal for certain readers, which is part why I gave it the rating I did. I can see this doing incredibly well with the right audience!

I decided to DNF the book around 30%, then went to see what happened at the end.

While I loved the author’s writing style, I did not feel a connection to any of the characters or plot. It felt like chapters of fluff and useless information that I did not feel drawn in to read to find out the ending. I don’t think this book was for me, but could see this being a very popular.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an advanced copy!

This book…. this book… It truly made me rethink every other book I’ve ever read. It’s unlike anything I’ve ever read and such a stunning and unforgettable read. It took me a while to read but in the best way. I knew I needed to savor every moment of it. This story was so gut wrenching and heart breaking. The many lives of these characters were so different and filled with so much pain but also love. The writing was so poetic and powerful and it’s hard to believe someone can write this eloquently. I was so invested in these characters and their tragic love story. Destined to be in love in every life but also destined to kill each other in every lifetime. I can’t stop thinking about this book and it’s one that’s going to stick with me for a long time. I cannot recommend this one enough. I am forever in awe by this book.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the advanced copy!

Evelyn is reborn over and over again. Two things are the same in each of their lives: 1. They will always find Arden and 2. They will always die before their 18th birthday.

This book was so cool! Here's what I liked:

The past lives: The way this book is set up, it. gives you a really cool look at Evelyn and Arden's past lives. The chapters bounce back and forth between the present storyline and various past lives. Each one gives you a little bit more and unravels more of their complicated relationships.

The present day: I loved the storyline with Evelyn and her sister. This gives the conflict of the story so much more depth. There's a reason Evelyn needs to live just a little bit longer. Something that she's pushing for.

The concept: The general concept of this book was so cool. It really has Addie LaRue vibes. The story has layers and the characters attract you to them. This is not one to miss!

All in all, a really cool book with a fantasy plot that is engaging.

I was lucky enough to receive a copy of this ARC, and they had me at reincarnation, and “for readers of the invisible life of addie larue “ (one of my favorite books of all time) this story was very well crafted and I was so immersed in each of their lifetimes , I loved the supernatural aspect of this and was shocked by the twist , this is new and fresh and an angle I haven’t read before in the way this was written. Absolutely 5 stars , required reading. This book is amazing. I can’t wait to collect special editions of this book

thank you so much to Wednesday Books and Laura Stevens for this ARC via Netgalley!!

wow. this book was absolutely stunning and kept me fully engaged. to start off the premise drew me in — two souls who are endlessly stuck in a cycle of loving and killing each other. then i loved the way that we seamlessly switched from present to past in order to see bits and pieces of all the lives they lived and give even more depth to their relationship. and then finally the twists i didn’t see coming that i found so intriguing and the ending that left me speechless🙂‍↕️

i loved the way poetry was intertwined in this book and just the writing overall flowed so beautifully. i have so many quotes from this that i can’t wait to share once it’s published🥹 i highly recommend checking this one out when it comes out march 4th, 2025!!!


*posted review on goodreads & ig after submitting this

Thanks netgally and St. Martins Press for my very first ARC 🤩

"A star-crossed lovers romance that spans a millennia, for fans of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, They Both Die at the End and One Day

They've loved each other in every lifetime. They've killed each other in every one."

I was really hoping this would be a 4-5 star read for me. The premise--two souls riencarnated after thousands of years, only to kill one another in each life, and their journey to break this cycle--was a very promising synopsis! All of my reader friends know I dislike when there is time travel/time jumps in any book I read, but I was really hoping that this book would change my opinion on that. I will say, I didn't mind it as much in this book, as it served to show the relationship between both main characters through each life cycle (vs childhood to present day in most contemporary romances I read). I loved how in each life cycle, the main characters were riencarnated as different genders, showing that true love comes from the soul, and not a persons body/appearance. The plot twist at the end was also something I was not expecting at all, which kept me engaged!

I think I would have enjoyed this book more if there had been less time jumps, or more character development in each one. By the end of the book, I wanted to see how it ended, but I didn't really feel attatched to either of the two main characters. I would have loved the plot twist to be fleshed out more. It happened so close to the end of the book, and was resolved too quickly in my opinion.

Overall, I think it was a solid 3✨ read for me! If you enjoy YA fantasy, I think you should give this one a shot!

When a book is compared to Addie LaRue, it’s an immediate read for me but unfortunately this one did fall just a tad short. However, this book is still really good! The writing is beautiful, the characters are to die for, and I certainly did love the story! It just fell short in regards to the way Addie LaRue made me feel. I will and still recommend this book to those who do like Addie LaRue but maybe not to those who are obsessed with Addie LaRue, like me.

Thank you, NetGalley and publisher, for this early copy in return of an honest review!