Our Infinite Fates is a mesmerising read. I fell in love with the characters and their stories. The way the author switches between the different timelines and places felt flawless. I was swept up and taken on a journey through endless worlds.
I love the idea of the soul mates, how they kept coming back to eachother despite everything. Gender didn’t matter at all and how the author was able to distinguish the two souls in the different bodies, countries and times is a mystery.
I adored the poetic prose and the intense emotions that were evoked. The plot is captivating as we try to unravel why the characters are in this seemingly endless loop. I usually dislike memory loss but not on this occasion. This is the kind of read I wish I could wipe my own memory of just to experience again. It’s also one (now knowing the ending) that I could reread. Despite being a YA novel it’s definitely one for adults who enjoy romance too.
Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for an ARC. This is a voluntary review of my own thoughts.

Thank you Netgalley and Saint Martin press!

It took me 2 days to read this gripping ya fantasy! Evelyn is just a girl who has lived 1000s years only till the age of 18…. You might ask how does that work? Thats not mathematically possible? Well she just reincarnates every time she is killed by her ex lover. Arden.

Oh my god every time we went backwards into one of her reincarnated lives i just wanted her to get away sooo badly!! Thats what made me finish it in 2 days i just wanted to understand and really like how historical it also was and it just left you wanting more with each chapter

The ending was not what i suspected kind of disappointing in some ways. I wanted it to be an answer I understood more but i didnt so thats why i gave it 4 stars ✨

I do recommend this to anyone who like a dystopian ya book with a touch of fantasy!

3.75★

I was drawn to this story because I love romances that transcend time and space. I enjoyed the books this was compared to, and see the inspiration that was drawn from them. 🌟

The concept was captivating, and the author’s poetic writing, along with the alternating past and present timelines, kept me intrigued♥️. I especially loved how the historical flashbacks felt authentic and diverse, showcasing different cultures, and hardships. I appreciated that Evelyn & Arden’s reincarnations weren’t tied to the same gender, which added to the believability of their journey through time.⏳

As beautiful as some of the prose was, certain lines became repetitive, losing their impact by the end. The ending was interesting, but it did fall a bit flat for me. 🤏

I struggled to feel the emotional connection between Arden and Evelyn’s love. I wish there had been more scenes developing their bond early on, rather than so much focus on the inevitability of death. As a result, I found myself more concerned about Evelyn’s fate in the present than invested in their relationship. I personally wanted to feel more immersed in their love, and understand why it was so important.

Overall, I appreciate this unique plot and think it will resonate with some people even if I wanted a bit more. I will read more from this author because I love the writing style! If you are curious about this story, I’d still say give it a try💫

laura steven has written one of the most poetic, heartwrenching, and romantic books i've read in years. our infinite fates is a genre-defying tale of two souls reincarnating over centuries that feels both achingly intimate and comfortingly universal. it is a story about what happens when love is the only constant—when it becomes your every reason, in every life, and transcends language and culture and gender—and when the only way to survive is to lean into the agony of it, instead of running away.

it's a story i hesitate to tell you anything about, in an effort to preserve the experience of it, but i will tell you this: our infinite fates exists at the intersection of some of the most captivating books of recent years—namely the invisible life of addie larue, divine rivals, and this is how you lose the time war—while feeling entirely and refreshingly original. it is an ancient tale told to you by a dear friend, and you'll only realize you're part of it when it's too late, when you've already cried multiple times and given your heart over to it. evelyn and arden are truly a love story for the ages, and their story will haunt me for a long, long time.

it's been half a year since i first read this book and i've thought about it nearly every day since, so when i tell you that you need this book, i'm not exaggerating. it is a grand catharsis for the heart that can't land in the world soon enough, and after reading our infinite fates, you—like me—will follow laura steven anywhere.

For hundreds of years, in life after life, two things are true for Evelyn and Arden: they have an undeniable and inescapable bond, and they will murder one another before they reach 18. Is it love that is eternal? Or hate?

In modern-day Wales, Evelyn is on edge, counting the days until her eighteenth birthday. She knows what's coming--her death at the hands of her true love, Arden. But he hasn't revealed himself to her yet, and Evelyn has an urgent need to live: saving her little sister.

This beautifully composed novel takes readers around the world and across time as we revisit some of the past lives Evelyn and Arden inhabited. Regardless of class, gender, or location, the tie that binds the lovers together never fails to tug them to their inevitable end. While Evelyn's memories are hazy and broken, Arden cannot forget a single detail, shouldering alone the secret of their infinite fates.

Like Evelyn, I spent much of the story struggling to fit the pieces of this mysterious puzzle together. I was decidedly unprepared for the twist that revealed why the pair reincarnated over and over again, with heartbreaking results every time.

I respect the hell out of this book. With every detail, author Laura Steven set herself a bigger and bigger challenge: making the ultimate reveal worthy of the emotional investment readers had made. She met that challenge admirably and memorably.

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for the complimentary ARC in exchange for my honest opinion.

This was a beautiful love story full of grief, heartache, and growth. The diversity of these characters was so refreshing and natural, I couldn’t get enough! Gorgeous!!

This book had such good potential - I loved the sweeping concept and LOVED all the different time periods and settings it took us too but it lacked a fundamental chemistry (or a build to this chemistry) that left me apathetic to the characters.

What worked for me:
- Like I said, I really loved the wide breadth of locations and time periods. I loved that it stepped out of a western-focused time traveling romance, it made the story more lush and diverse. There were a few settings where I was begging to spend more than a few pages in.
- The inherent queerness of the love - their fluid genders elevated the romance tenfold for me.
- I think the idea was very very unique and such a cool concept for a huge epic romance

What didn't work:
- When we really meet these characters, there has been thousands of years and hundreds of lifetimes of history between them. I think we needed at the beginning some of their first lives together to set up the emotional hook. It felt almost "insta-love" to me with the main character already in turmoil over her complicated feelings for him and I felt very much "who is this man???? and why do I care????" and though we do peel back the layers as the book goes on, I just felt like I was missing a lot of the emotional foundation between them.
- I think the book was far too short for this very huge concept. (I am biased because I love a 500+ page slow burn romance) but I needed more time in the very fun settings in the past and ESPECIALLY needed more time in the beginning of it all. No spoilers but when we finally get to see where there story started, it was a few measly pages and I wanted to tear my hair out!!!
- It didn't quite work as YA to me, though I will be honest and say I'm not the biggest YA reader (as I am a 30 year old woman LOL). I thought it just felt odd how YA the characters felt and acted even though they've been around for thousands of years. Would have worked much better as an adult fantasy novel, personally.

I read this book very quickly, so I would recommend as a quick and light read, but an all-encompassing, sweeping romance through time it is not.

Thank you so much to NetGalley for this ARC!
I fell in love with the premise of this book and it didn't disappoint. I did feel that it should've started picking up at closer than the 75% mark, which was the only kicker for me.
Arden and Evelyn's many stories were wonderful to follow and I genuinely wanted to read them falling in love all and over again. Laura Steven's writing is beautiful, enticing and so appropriate for the genres that she's chosen. Arden may have technically been the poet, but it was all Laura. I cannot wait to see what she writes after this, and I can't wait to read Our Infinite Fates again. This was great! I want more of them.

This book. THIS. BOOK.

I went into this completely blind, knowing nothing. All vibes, no thoughts. I left this book BEREFT, a changed woman. The writing! It’s so beautiful, I found myself highlighting 80% of the book. For fans of Addie Larue and Divine Rivals, Our Finite Fates is going to stay with me for a long time.

4✨ for Our Infinite Fates. I’ll start by saying I thoroughly enjoyed this and I was hooked in from the start. It started to lag for me around the 70% mark but really ramped back up in the end.

The writing is beautiful with some stunning prose and really lovely poetry as well. I’ve discovered that I’m a big fan of anything with time manipulation such as flashbacks, time travel, and reincarnation. This book hit the mark for me!!

Our two main characters are reincarnated lovers in different lives who are destined to kill each other in every life before their 18th birthday. The frustration and heartache is rampant. The tension of anger and love between the two is wild. We get flashbacks into different lives they’ve lived in different places and different bodies. I appreciated that the story was not confusing at all, despite the quick changes of bodies/names/locations throughout the chapters.

I was satisfied with the twist at the end and even more satisfied with the final conclusion. Overall, it was heart achingly gorgeous. Dark, yet ethereal. It will definitely be a book I recommend to others! Thank you St. Martins Press and NetGalley for the ARC.

This book had some of the most beautiful writing and a super original plot, however I just felt that some of the pacing was off. The story jumps from "present day" Wales to previous incarnations of Arden and Evelyn. While these were fun to experience, and read about different time periods, some of them seemed like filler and I felt like the plot was dragging in the present time line until pretty far into the book. The ending felt a little rushed and I would have liked some of the mythology to have been fleshed out a little more. Overall, an interesting read with likable characters and plenty of romance and mystery.
Thanks to Netgalley for an arc! All opinions are my own.

Why this book?

1. The book comparisons alone. It’s The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue x This is How You Lose a Time War. I’d also add The City of Glass. All of these books I adored, so it’s no surprise I loved this one. I think my biggest criticism in these big century hopping concepts is it’s hard to land the plane. That being said, sometimes the adventure vs. the destination.
2. My goodness, tension 🤝 pacing. Just perfection. This book was hard to put down. Often I found my breath caught in my throat.
3. “I love you, and I have loved you, and I will love you.” The love quotes in this book made it an awesome February/Valentine month read. 👩‍🍳💋

I want to thank @Netgalley for both the audiobook and kindle ARC’s on this. With this level of devilish yearning, the gluttony of having two mediums to consume this was awesome.

4.5/5

🌟 "Beautiful" is the one word that perfectly captures the essence of "Our Infinite Fates" by Laura Stevens . I'll admit, I'm not usually a fan of non-linear storytelling, but this book made it work 🕰️! Each time jump felt like a fresh start, offering a unique glimpse into the characters' backgrounds and development 🌱.

This book also celebrates the power of love in all its forms ❤️, showing that it can transcend time, space, and societal norms. It's a beautiful reminder that love is love, no matter what 🌈.

I'm so glad I stepped out of my comfort zone to read this book 📚. It's a game-changer, and I'll definitely be seeking out more books like it 📖. The writing style and themes reminded me of "The Song of Achilles" 🎶, which is high praise indeed! 🙌

Overall, "Our Infinite Fates" is a stunning, thought-provoking read that will stay with me for a long time 💭. 🌟 This gave me those yummy yummy vibes.

Thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press!! One ARC I won’t be forgetting anytime soon!!

Pub Date: Mar 04 2025🎉🎉🎉

“I love you, I have loved you, and I will love you”
It offers such a refreshing take on fate and soulmates, and really makes you think about existence lol. I wanted to love it more, but the pacing threw me off. The back-and-forth between different times and lives was a bit confusing, and I didn’t feel as connected as I hoped to the characters or their journey.

I think I would’ve enjoyed it more if the story had focused on just a few lives and really explored them in depth instead of jumping around to so many. I felt like I didn’t get enough time to invest in the characters before we were moved on to the next chapter, and it left me a little detached from the overall story.

That being said, the writing was beautiful, and the ending was unexpected. I’m usually really good at predicting what’s going to happen and what the plot twist is going to be but I definitely didn’t see this one coming.

Thank you to NetGalley for providing an ARC.

I was so excited to read this because the premise is incredibly appealing. Who wouldn’t want to read about soul mates who kill each one another in their past lives? The issue I had with the book was the execution. We’re told that Arden and Evelyn are soulmates and they love each other so much, yet it’s hardly shown. Their past lives and encounters are short chapters that lack depth. This book has so much potential, but as is, it’s underdeveloped. I wanted to know more about their past lives, I wanted to experience their current life and love together. And then when we get to the WHY of their predicament, it’s rushed as well. I didn’t feel satisfied with the solution to their predicament.

This was such a great read!
In this book, the reader slowly unwinds the mystery that is Evelyn and Arden’s entwined fates. Told in alternating chapters between the past and present, we learn that in every life before Evelyn turns eighteen, Arden finds her and murders her. If she manages to kill him first, her death soon follows. The cycle repeats itself as they are reborn through the centuries and only Arden seems to know why. Evelyn can’t stop herself from loving Arden, even though she only remembers snippets of their past lives and doesn’t understand why she has to die in each one.
The premise, characters, and writing of this book were all very well done. The premise felt unique and original. It did give off Invisible Life of Addie La Rue vibes at first, but the author took things in a completely different and unique direction. I loved Evelyn, Arden, and Gracie as characters and felt myself reading faster to learn more about them. As for the writing, I fell into this book immediately and was hooked. Alternating between the past and present was a good way to frame the story and for the reader to slowly figure out answers as Evelyn remembered snippets from her past lives.
However, I kept wanting to learn more about their past lives. Each snippet seemed a little too short to fully understand how their lives intersected each other in each one. I wish we could have better seen how they fell in love with each other so that their everlasting love through the centuries was more believable. I also felt like the ending was rushed. Everything in the book lead up to a final confrontation and I felt like it was over too soon.
Despite my few gripes with it, it was a compelling story and very well done.
4 stars, and looking forward to what Laura Steven writes next!

A beautiful tale that'll have you thinking about fate, destiny, and the immutability of love. It's worth going into as blind as possible - but here are some bullet points:

✨ two lovers who find each other in every lifetime - but they're destined to kill each other in each before their 18th birthday
✨ but this time, one needs to stick around to save a life - can they take charge of their own destiny?
✨ set across multiple lifetimes, multiple countries, and multiple genders
✨ YA romantic fantasy - be prepared for emotions over spice, and remember our characters have never managed to make it past 17

I loved this, ate it right up. It's beautifully written, it's emotional, it's incredibly unique. Tragically beautiful, beautifully tragic, and I can't wait for everyone to get their hands on it.

Thank you to to Netgalley and St. Martin's Press/Wednesday Books for the early copy in exchange for an honest review!

I'm surprised by how much this book drew me in. Steven's writing is full of life, and I was impressed by how well-developed the side characters and settings were across the various time periods Evelyn and Arden lived through. The little details, such as the quirks of their loved ones and the richness of different cultures and eras, were very well done and added a ton of depth. Evelyn's complete and utter love for those around her, as well as regret over their fleeting time together, was almost tangible. The story's structure, weaving snapshots of their past lives with the present, kept me engaged and immersed in their journey.

Unfortunately, I was a bit confused since I was under the impression that a huge part of their story is that Evelyn and Arden were in love from the very beginning, as opposed to slowly falling in love with each other through the centuries and with Arden even hating Evelyn in their first few lives for turning them into a devil as well. I don't mind that their relationship took time to build, but I wanted to see the development, rather than simply be told that they were in love.

The events behind their endless cycle of death and reincarnation also felt weak and unconvincing to me. In Ancient Greece, a manifestation of suffering—the Mother—kills Calliope (Arden), and Daphne (Evelyn) makes a deal to reap souls in exchange for Arden’s return. Evelyn and Arden are then doomed to reincarnate, with one needing to kill the other before they turn eighteen, or else they must begin reaping souls themselves. By the end, the story became a bit too convoluted for me, and the last 15% felt pretty disappointing. I wish there had been chapters from Arden’s perspective, not only to add variety and prevent the narrative from feeling stale and repetitive, but also to drop more hints leading up to the reveal.

There are many beautiful quotes, poetic passages, and reflections on love enduring across time, but ultimately, the book left me underwhelmed.

I went into this book with high expectations as it had been advertised as a “romantasy.” After reading this, I can definitely say it was not a romantasy. Although it explored the idea of love, it was necessarily a romance book. I felt as though I could not understand why the characters loved each other, and it was definitely more nuanced than just an “enemies to lovers” scenario. The ending was shocking, but it also fell flat for me. It was a decent read, but not marketed correctly in my personal opinion.

2.75⭐️ spice: barely any
very conflicted with this one because although the authors prose was giving me five star feelings, the story itself really fell flat for me. At first I was really enjoying it but the fact that the characters die before we get to know them and they change bodies, genders, centuries, families etc it really took away from me being able to root for them since they were constantly changing, and the direction the book went at the end caught me off guard. There were so many beautiful quotes in this but the story went from amazing to slightly disappointing which made me bummed. But I am interested to read other books by this author since her writing was beautiful!

Thank you netgalley for a copy of this ARC for review.