Our Infinite Fates: A Novel by Laura Steven

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Hardcover 346 pages

so many books are getting looooong! just for giggles, i’m going to start including page counts.

From the Publisher: 

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets This is How You Lose The Time War in this fantastical love story that defies death as two souls reincarnate through the centuries.

Evelyn can remember all her past lives. She can also remember that in every single one, she’s been murdered before her eighteenth birthday by Arden, a supernatural being linked to her soul. The problem is that she’s quite fond of the life she’s in now, and her little sister needs her in order to stay alive. If Evelyn wants to save her sister, she’ll have to 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, and try not to fall in love . . . again.

I’m not typically a YA reader. I have nothing against the genre, just don’t gravitate towards it and I’m not even sure it registered to me that this was a YA novel when I selected it for my March BOTM pick. All this rambling to say, don’t let the YA label keep you from picking this one up, because at what other age can you love someone so fiercely, completely, overwhelmingly than eighteen.

The premise of Our Infinite Fates grabbed my attention immediately. How can two people who claim to love each other through a thousand lifetimes continue to kill each other over and over again. Why in the world would you love someone so much that you have to kill them time and time again? The reasoning for the never ending murder is told through glimpses of Evelyn’s pervious lives. No matter what name they are born with, or what gender they are born as, Evelyn always remembers her previous lives.  Whether she is a soldier in WWI, a sailor in the 1700s, or a young woman in love with her best friend off the coast of Australia in the 1960s, Evelyn is always Evelyn and Arden is always Arden. And it’s revealed slowly, through past lives and the current crisis Evelyn finds herself in with her sister in 2022 Wales, that we discover how the fates of Evelyn and Arden are intertwined. 

Laura Steven’s writing in Our Infinite Fates is quiet, emotional, and incredibly descriptive. It’s intricately plotted and the story moves pretty quickly. I really enjoyed how the characters changed genders and locations with each life, giving the readers a glimpse of the world in different time periods. I loved the mystery surrounding where the characters came from and how they became entwined together at a metaphysical level. The ending wasn’t entirely the best, but I understand what the author was going for and while not perfect, it still worked. 

Overall, I definitely recommend giving this one a chance, but don’t forget that it’s very much a YA novel with teenage characters written for a teen audience. I’ve seen a lot of reviews that seem to forget that fact. 

If you’d like to add this book to your shelf, you can click on the cover above or here for ordering information. I chose this book as my March 2025 selection from Book of the Month.  You can use my referral code to get your first book for a discount and I get a free book in return. 

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