This was not my normal style of book. With that being said, I think it will be a great option for people who love this genre. I thought it was clever and interesting with a unique plot.

A beautifully written tale spanning time with a unique storyline and characters you want to know. The pacing was slow for me personally which at times matched the atmosphere in this story but when it didn’t it felt repetitive. My favorite moments were found lost in the backstory of their past lives, I loved their history which always ended far sooner than I’d of liked. I wanted to know Evelyn and Arden much more intimately than I was able to by the end. The writing was stunning, the concept and the characters were full of potential but in the end I wanted to feel their love for each other more, I felt like I was missing that piece to draw me into their story.

Truth be told, I didn’t know what to expect. I tend to go into some of these stories somewhat blindly. Not paying attention to reviews. I’m absolutely glad I did. This story was FANTASTIC. The narrator captivated me from the start. I was enthralled by the basis of it all.

Immediately I was consumed in the world of these two characters. The many lives they lived and the stories of their past and present selves. This book was darn near perfect. I felt all sorts of emotions throughout it all. I wa invested. The ending was so poetic, I didn’t see it coming.

Thanks so much NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the ALC.

firstly, thank you to the publisher for an arc and an alc!

♾️ stars (see what i did there?)

gahhh this simultaneously comforted and hurt me, but obviously in the best ways. as a hopeless romantic, the idea of the red string of fate/soulmates is something i hopelessly long for, and the way laura steven writes it is fascinating.

i think, what i loved most about this depiction of finding your other half across lifetimes, was the fact that love is not gendered. in the multiple lives evelyn and arden live, they are both male and female, but do not necessarily identify as either male or female. they simply are, and love the other for their soul, not their gender identity.

as for the audio, the narrator did a fanastic job.

UGH AND THAT ENDING!! i will be thinking of it, and of course this book, forever.

I completely understand why it's mentioned as for fans of Addie Larue. If you like Addie Larue you MUST read this book because I truly think you'll love it. All the same vibes are there.
I was hooked from the very beginning until the last page. I had theories and I was so far off it's crazy, this book has multiple great twists that truly will blow your mind even when you're sure you know what is going on.
The angst is there and you will absolutely feel it, the longing, the sadness... the hope.
I loved our main character, though I struggled a little to relate to her love for this being who is killing her and betraying her over and over. I wish we'd seen a little more conflict on that, but I get that was not the point of the story.
I absolutely loved that we got to see the flashbacks of their previous lives and deaths, it really added SO MUCH to the characters and their relationship.
The only thing I really can say I didn't like was the age of the characters. The characters purposefully

felt older because of how many lives they've lived. Not a single moment did they feel like teenagers and to be honest, I never once imagined them as such, I kinda aged them up during the whole book without meaning to.
Not only that, but the book itself and the writing, the pov from the main character, does not feel YA. So I wished they'd just aged them up, I think it would have added a lot more, and would not affect anything negatively but the opposite.

When it comes to the ending, I expected an open, bittersweet ending, and that's exactly what I got. Like I said, if you like Addie, this will be right up your alley. Still, I did still hope for a happier, closer ending and... I wish I had that but that's just because it's my preference. This book is insanely good.

I liked getting to know the many iterations of Evelyn and Arden throughout the book, especially seeing how they retained certain character traits regardless of their different life circumstances, place in time, location, or even gender. Instead of enemies to lovers, we get lovers forced to be enemies (but also, still lovers?). I have some unanswered questions about the ending (or more specifically about some of the laws that govern their world, honestly), but I also felt like it gave the right amount of closure.

While I liked the audiobook, I found the narrator was put in the tricky position of keeping a consistent voice for the two main characters even as those characters transformed from life to life. She stuck to a feminine voice for Evelyn and a more masculine voice for Arden even in lives where that didn’t match their characters. This took away from the idea that their souls transcended any specific form or gender, but I also understand that it made for easier reading to have the voices stay consistent between lives. This is less a critique of the narrator and more an acknowledgment that some elements of a book are hard to translate into audio format.

Needing to remind myself occasionally that this is a fantasy, I was surprised how much I enjoyed this book. Mainly saying that because even though I knew the storyline is fanatical, I questioned a few things throughout. But I overlooked all that because this was so much fun to get into. This would definitely be a great book if you're dipping your toes into the fantasy genre, which was me for sure.

Evelyn and Arden were great characters and because the author wrote them well enough and affable enough, anything they did was fun to read even though at times it was a little offbeat. I don't want to spoil too much, but I kept picturing the author planning out the storyline and the basis of the immortal narrative that I had to stop questioning the logistics of some events. I had to think - just enjoy the relationship between Evelyn and Arden because the book was so full and great that questioning things would just put the halt in the enjoyment of the book. Sometimes that could ruin the tone, but not with this one, this was worth the overlooking.

And that cover. Wow! So gorgeous. Definitely drew me in. And the narration was amazing.

Pub date: March 4, 2025

Thank you to NetGalley and MacMillan Audio for an audio copy of this book. All opinions are my own.

Thank you to Wednesday Books and Netgalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

“Our Infinite Fates” is a beautiful tapestry of grief, betrayal, and steadfast love woven across time. Evelyn and Arden come off the page with the depth and intensity of their emotions. Love is a central theme in the story and Evelyn is overflowing with it, not only for their soulmate but for every single person in all of their lives. Laura Steven also paints an evoking metaphor of genderfluidity and pansexuality in historical and modern context. “Our Infinite Fates” is a thought-provoking story that will stay with you and make you wonder who you were in a past life.

Sofia Oxenham is the most perfect narrator for this story, with her steady pace and emotive voice. I will listen to anything Oxenham narrates for the rest of my life.

character development, longing, and angst. The dialogue about loss, family, and belonging was expertly done, and the romance was incredibly profound and sincere. loved it! great narration!

This was beautiful. It was the combination of Divine Rivals meets This is How You Lose the Time War and had the ages not been mentioned this could easily have worked as new adult or even adult. It was whimsical, tragic, and hopeful. Some of the most beautiful prose. I would love to have a poetry companion of all of the notebooks that Arden filled.

I'm going to pause this and pick up a physical copy. It's not that I dont like the narrator, the audio is just confusing going back and forth between times. I feel like I was dropped into the middle of something I know nothing about and I can't seem to get a handle on what's going on. I'm hoping seeing it in print will help. 🤞 I do appreciate being sent the audio though as that's my main form of reading.

Only rating because I have to

Laura Steven’s take on conscious reincarnation was breath of refreshing air in the popular romantasy genre. I enjoyed the little tidbits of history throughout the characters’ centuries of reincarnation. The addition of detailed & accurate historical references could have elevated this book to four stars.

Although overall I enjoyed this book, the amount of words it took to figure out why Arden was repeatedly killing Evelyn was painstaking. You have to read/listen to EIGHTY percent of the book until you get any idea as to why any of this is happening. Light clues sprinkled throughout would have helped with my frustration.

As an American, I found the narrator’s English accent and lilt pleasant & soothing. Tone changes for male characters were smooth & not awkward sounding as some female narrators are when using a masculine tones.

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!

This book was so gorgeous! Top tier angst, yearning, and character growth. The romance was so deep and heartfelt and the conversations concerning grief, family, and belonging was very well executed. I also found the diversity to be incredibly refreshing. The narrator did a great job!

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

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!
The narrorator was great but I preferred reading this one physically.

For once, the marketing comparisons are accurate - if you liked Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, you'll probably feel similar about this. And if you didn't, this has a lot of the same issues, improved maybe slightly.

The concept is one I love - combining constant fated soul reincarnation with having to kill your fated partner in every life. it's the sort of thing I eat up with a spoon. The problem for me is once you've got that concept, the scope of the execution of it and the reasoning behind why they're stuck in a reincarnation and death loop is just as important to me as however lyrical and painful each life is. The other problem is the more you try to explain it, the more work you have to do to make that explanation work both at the start and all the way through the resolution. Sometimes less is way more. And here, for me, the explanation just isn't at all satisfying compared with both Evelyn and Arden's actions throughout the years.

There's also the issue of trying to balance a global, no-borders sort of reincarnation and not being completely out of your depth when writing those lives. It becomes increasingly obvious that Steven is British in the lives that aren't set in the western world (and even then there are only like...two) and Evelyn and Arden are always on the "right" side of history (from a 21st century perspective, and while both are happy to spout off lines about humanity and ethics with a distinctly modern ring to them, we never examine things like the fact that they've both been in wars and lived so many culturally different lives but were still more than willing to lie about their ages to enlist for WWI). That's not even getting into some flat-out incorrect historical facts (the Song life is rife with them and I can only express my thanks that the "crossbow at Mt. Fuji" life isn't ever actualized), including my favorite that tomatoes weren't in Europe until the 14th century, if the reincarnation cycle started around 1000, they could never have had a life in Pompeii, etc. etc., things like that that are poetic lines, but make no sense if you stop and think for more than a second.

ANYWAY. I actually would have liked less of the other lives, as they don't add all that much (they could have, but they're mostly repetitive themes instead of adding context to their relationship really evolving and changing) and more of Evelyn and Arden talking in this life about what that tipping point in Siberia was, delving more into why Arden's happiness was just watching Evelyn get to live, things that they don't get a chance to talk about in previous lives because of the impending deadline. I did love the fact that as much as this is a book about death, each death is so wrapped up in love and the result of living.

I did also really appreciate that each of them has lives in all sorts of bodies, that their love is of the soul and there is an abundance of queer love (once again there is a...very modern western view on queerness, but if you're here for nuance, uhhh....). There are also so many different explorations of love, familial, friendship, so much found family.

I think this will be a huge hit with its intended audience, and those outside of that will depend on their threshold for teenage characters (despite being immortal souls, both Arden and Evelyn - Evelyn in particular since she only remembers so many lives - are and act like teenagers), since for arbitrary (western) reasons, we've picked 18 as the threshold age (I would have been more forgiving if the number had something more to do with the original starting life, but no, it's just "oh at 18 you're adults" ONLY IN CERTAIN CULTURES??? Anyway.). I did enjoy reading this and it made me want to read so many parts in so many different orders.

As an audiobook, I really appreciated that although there weren't specifically different voices for each character, the cadence and tone was shifted enough to change life to life and character to character so that you never get confused (and there are a LOT of characters when you add up all the lives) Oxenham's voice complements the more lyrical moments of Steven's writing really well.

*update* I get not tagging authors in a negative review and I won't tag authors if it was a 3star or less. That said this book IS a 4 star read for me. I can't put my fingers onto why it isn't a 5 star read. IDK. My review is more positive then it is criticism and even then the "criticism" is more my personal opinion. I didn't say that she was a horrible writer or that the story was bad. The story is amazing, I LOVED the premise and she has an amazing way with words. I just *personally* wish it wasn't YA! I made the mistake of sharing one of her post along with sharing this review. I got a response of "why would you tag me in a review that is almost entirely criticism?" *shrugs emoji* I didn't read her reply to my reply of " wait what? I loved the book?" I made a coworker go in and delete the message because I could not be bothered. That said, it left a negative taste in my mouth and while I will not be petty and lower my rating, I canceled my preorder.

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

I'm giving this a 4 star.

Laura Steven is undeniable a very good writer. I loved the writing, I just genuinely wish this wasn't YA. I get it because of the plot, but ugh ... the POSSIBILITIES. That said if I was 16-18 years old and reading this I would probably give it a 5 star. I'm also wondering if I would have rated it differently if I read it versus listening to it. I did still order a UK special edition though.

I love the premise of this book. I also loved the multiple timelines but I do wish we got to spend more time with the two main characters. We know they're in love and they love one another deeply, but I wish there was more "show don't tell". I personally wasn't expecting the "twist" as to why they're trapped in this loop so I was like wait what? That said the resolution was just a bit toooo tidy. but eh it's YA. I also love. LOVE. that every reincarnation it isn't necessarily male/female. Sometimes it's male/male and sometimes it's female/female and I LOVE it. They love one another regardless.

Overall, I enjoyed the story, i loved the writing, but I wish there was juuuuust a bit more.

Thank you NetGalley and MacMillan Audio for the audiobook in exchange for an honest review.

It’s unfair that I will never get to read or listen to this book for the first time again. Wow, I loved it.

This is a stunningly gorgeous, magical book following Evelyn and Arden through various lifetimes over 1000 years where they are fated to fall in love and kill one another before their 18th birthday in each lifetime. Their lives take them all over the world and put them in all sorts of cultures and different genders each time. Each life they find eachother and live out their cursed fate.

But now it is 2022 and Evelyn is living in a life where her younger sister needs her bone marrow for a cancer treatment and she must figure out who Arden is and try to find a way to stay alive long enough to make sure her beloved sister gets the treatment she needs.

I was captivated from the first page. This is one that I’ll be purchasing and reading again and again.

Audiobook narrator was Sofia Oxenfam and she’s fabulous. I’ve found a new favorite narrator!

Kudos to the author, Laura Steven, for this brilliant book based on my favorite Taylor Swift song (ft. Bon Iver), Exile.

This is a story about love after death… again and again and again.

Ahhhhh I LOVED this book. This book perfectly captured the experience of yearning while somehow also interweaving it with the promise of death over and over. Love sick assassins?! I want everything I read this year to feel like this.

Thank you so much @macmillan.audio & @wednesdaybooks for the Arcs of my most anticipated book!