An exquisite tale of love and loss. Our Infinite Fates stuck with me long after the final pages fell shut. It's one of those books I wish I could read again for the first time.

First I would like to thank Netgalley for providing me with this ARC.

I am left with very mixed feeling about this one. I was so excited to read it as it sounded so promising, however as much as I loved it, it also felt like it didn’t meet the expectations I had for it and felt flat somewhere in the middle.

The premises of the story felt magical and gave me strong feeling of longing through the glimpses of their past lives, however this is also where I felt the flashback did not serve purpose and felt repetitive after awhile. This is also where I lost a bit of interest as up until more than halfway through the book, nothing really was happening and it was just a bit slow paced for my liking. But then with the reveal, and the plot twist I feel it was redeemed.

Overall I liked the story and characters and how it was written, but unfortunately it was not the 5 star read I was anticipating.

In every lifetime, they find each other. In every lifetime, she dies.
This is a love story.
This time, Evelyn needs to live. Her sister needs her bone marrow - and she has a list, hidden away, of things she could do if she ever reaches adulthood. But she needs to find her killer, and find out why his love ends at the edge of a knife.
The characters, because they were reincarnated into so many lifetimes, felt hard to pin down after a while. I couldn't tell you what Evelyn and Arden are like. The plot is interesting, but the twist felt a bit out of place and just left me wishing the story had ended differently.

This book was written for the hopeless romantics, the people who believe in soul-mates. I am in utter awe of this book, it felt as though it touched my soul. I could not put it down! Every single sentence is laced with such a poetic narrative, I knew from the first page I was gone for.

Evelyn has lived countless past lives, always murdered by Arden, a supernatural being tied to her soul. To save her sister, she must break their curse, avoid Arden’s deadly pursuit, and resist falling in love with him.

I don’t think I've ever read a book like this before! I enjoyed the switching in timelines throughout the chapters and seeing Evelyn and Arden in their past lives. I thought the mystery aspect was so well done and it had me speeding through the book for answers!! AND that twist at the end?? I did not see that coming from a mile away.

This story was achingly beautiful, filled with yearning, betrayal and plenty of heartbreak. An epic love story which gives meaning to the term soulmates. I promise this will break your heart in all the best ways.

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

Evelyn remembers most of her past lives, their edges blur the further back she goes but one thing remains clear. In all of them, she is killed before her eighteenth birthday by Arden, a supernatural being whose soul seems tied to hers. She is very fond of her current life and her little sister needs her, she needs a bone marrow transplant to survive and when the date keeps getting pushed back and her eighteenth birthday approaches, Evelyn must find a way to break the cycle of death she and Arden seem stuck in.

So starting this review with the best part of the book: the absolutely beautiful writing. You could pick almost any sentence in the book and turn it into one of these Pinterest quotes (the good ones!!). I’m usually not one for flowery language but in this case I loved it. It made sense to the characters and story and actually added to them.

Overall I did enjoy reading our infinite fates, but I did have a gripe with the pacing. Almost nothing happens in the first 85% of the book. For the first half I didn’t mind it too much because again the writing made up for it but once we got past 45% and there still was nothing going on I did get bored. The final confrontation had so much potential but we skipped over it so quickly, it was over in a few paragraphs.

‼️Some spoilers in this para!!
I know this is Y/A and usually it’s my favourite genre, I can usually overlook characters doing stupid stuff in these books because they’re teens, they do stupid shit that’s normal. But in this one Evelyn is like a thousand years old, most of the time she acts accordingly but every time it was about Arden she acted like a five year old suddenly.

Overall, I do think this is a great book that I’d recommend to y/a lovers who want some beautifully written angst. All my issues with it were personal, (if you’re a fellow slow paced book hater this isn’t for you) so I can see many people loving it.

Thanks to Penguin Random House and Netgalley for a review copy of this novel. For me, this novel had hints of Virginia Wolf’s Orlando as it follows Evelyn and Arden down through the centuries in various incarnations and genders through flashbacks or rather chapters that take us back through different lives to find the clue that tells us why this couple are doomed to die before they’re eighteen, at Arden’s hands. They are tethered by a bond, that much Evelyn does know and in her current life living in Wales as a teen approaching her eighteenth birthday she would very much like to know why, because she wants to live beyond that day. Most pressing is the fact that she’s supposed to donate her bone marrow to her sister in her cancer fight. But as the day approaches and Evelyn looks warily around for the person who might be Arden she finds herself taking more desperate risks until it all comes tumbling around her and Arden is revealed. Bargaining ensues and though Arden assures her that he is doing it for them, for his love for her, every reincarnation, she tries to discover why and change his mind. Past lives colour their relationship and deepen it even more, creating a sense for the reader of the depth of both their loves.

Poetry created by Arden in a past life is threaded through the narrative, hinting at the cause, showing the deep abiding nature of that Arden has for Evelyn until it is all revealed. The revelation and the scenes that followed are a bit melodramatic and not quite in keeping with the rich narrative of the rest for me fitting more on a paranormal side but Stevens does manage to pull it off and the ending shows the richness the bulk of the novel displayed and the deft writing.

I have never read a book that really depicted soulmates the way this one did. It was incredible. I loved journeying with the characters through different period of times and seeing how they found each other again in every lifetime!

I was fully immersed from start to finish and I had the absolute best time reading it! This was such a beautiful story about love and how love truly conquers all! I couldn’t recommend this enough!!!

‘I love you, and I have loved you, and I will loved you’ I keep coming back this quote because it’s so achingly beautiful

Thank you to NetGalley and Penguin for allowing me to me read this arc!

I've read a few books with the concept of lovers reuniting life after life, but this was the first that really grabbed my attention. I loved the dynamic between Evelyn and Arden. Desperate to love one another but knowing that they'd have to kill the other and die themselves by their 18th birthday every single time they were reincarnated.
I loved seeing the little flashbacks to their previous lives and how different each life was throughout history. How they both could come back as either male or female, but this made no difference to either their romance or their ending.
I actually preferred the flashbacks to the main story, as I found the historical settings a bit more interesting, and at times, current day Evelyn irritated me a bit, but I couldn't tell you why.
But overall it was an excellent story, with a really interesting ending. Worth a read for a slightly different YA romance novel.

Our Infinite Fates is a beautifully written YA fantasy that is told from the perspective of our main character Evelyn who is able to remember her past lives and has been killed by the same person before her 18th birthday in every one. In the present life she is desperate to stay alive as her sister is unwell and needs a bone marrow transplant. The book follows the present timeline as she tries to stay alive and uncover the reasons for these events and also goes back over Evelyn and Arden's story in several of their previous lives to help piece together all the information. The book is beautifully written and is a captivating love story. I really enjoyed the development of the book and I definitely did not see the twist coming. This is a great YA fantasy and I'm very excited to read more by this author.

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

“𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒓𝒖𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒇𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒅𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏: 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝑰 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒚 𝒎𝒆”

“𝑰𝒇 𝒂 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒐 𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒖𝒑 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒂 𝒗𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒆. 𝑺𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒖𝒑 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆.”

This was so unbelievably heartwarming & heartbreaking at the same time. It was so good to start to finish, i was invested!!

It follows Evelyn & Arden who are already in love & have been for many every lifetime. However, just before they turn eighteen Arden must kill Evelyn. Arden has hunted Evelyn for a thousand years but doesn’t understand why, yet in every lifetime she is drawn back to them.

So much of this book hit home, it explores the meaning of life, the importance of love and its power & beauty. Their relationship transcends time, gender & social norms. The tension between the two had me gripped!!

It was such a good read, written beautifully.

I’m not a huge YA reader but this would be one i recommend

This book was everything I wanted it to be and more. I was completely on board from the moment I heard about even the premise for this book, but even then it lived up to my expectations and beyond.

There were so many reason this book deserved the 5⭐️. First off, the characters. Evelyn and Arden and every iteration of the two we met were so well written. I really enjoyed seeing their personalities shine through no matter what form we say them in, and how each new life added a new layer of texture to their personalities and world views.

I really enjoyed the somewhere subtle and wholly normalised queerness throughout the book. What you've essentially got, despite the gender swapping throughout new incarnations, is a masc leaning character and a canonical nonbinary/genderfluid character. Though it's not a main plot point for the story, I think how queerness was handled was done so incredibly beautifully, and it really sat well with me.

I was also a big fan of the sort of alternate and opposite timeline changes. Our main timeline always moving forward but then the secondary timeline always rewinding back, one only progressing thanks to the other. I loved that, it took me till about hallways to realise we were slowly revealing using the second timeline to go back in time as a reader, but that's what makes it se well done.

The writing style is so easy to read, I devoured this book in about 2 days because it was addictive. And prose and poetry was so beautiful.

Plus that ending was perfect, heart wrenching and so satisfying all at once.

I could gush about how much I loved this book for hours but I'll leave it here with a solid 5⭐️, 10/10, a stunning book!

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4 Stars - upper YA romance with fantasy elements.

Evelyn has lived many lives, and in every one she is murdered by her soulmate before she turns 18. Evelyn doesn't remember why Arden needs to kill her as she can only remember details of her past few lives. In her current life her sister needs a bone marrow transplant so Evelyn is determined to stay alive this time in order to save her life.

The story is told from Evelyn's POV present day and intertwined with some of her past lives. The past lives are only one chapter per life but the author made me fall in love with them which I think is a hard thing to do given the page length. Each life was unique and heartfelt and I would of happily devoured a book about each life!

As Evelyn and Arden are reincarnated in multiple time eras and different genders the story explores a manner of world views from religion, war, gender identity, LBTQ themes that really makes you think about love and soulmates.

This is one of the most beautiful love stories I've ever read so you may be thinking why I rated it 4 stars and not 5. It was on track for 5 stars all the way through the book and becoming one of my favourites of the year until the reveal of the reason behind Arden's forced murderings and the ending. Whilst the reason wasn't bad it just wasn't what I was expecting and it it jarred me slightly - the book went from this beautiful love story to a sort of dark horror fantasy. The ending that followed this again wasn't bad but I wished and expected a different one.

I would still highly recommend the book but just keep your mind open at the end! I would recommend for fans of divine rivals - at heart, a romance book with a sprinkling of history and fantasy.

“𝗠𝗮𝘆𝗯𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝘀, 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗱. 𝗔𝗻 𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗳 𝗳𝗮𝘁𝗲."

Evelyn can remember all her past lives. She can also remember that in every single one, she’s been murdered before her eighteenth birthday.

The problem is that she’s quite fond of the one she’s in now, and more importantly, her sister needs her for bone marrow transplants to stay alive. So with her 18th birthday fast approaching, she now has to:
• find the centuries-old enemy who hunts her through each life and destroy them forever
• figure out exactly why she’s being hunted in the first place,
• try quite hard not to fall in love with them
…again.

Unputdownable! Within the first few pages I was hooked, mesmerized and utterly enthralled.
I loved the set up of this book. Flashbacks interwoven through the current narrative, transporting the reading to various timelines and variations of Evelyn and Arden, each it's own glimpse of their reunion, their love and ultimately their deaths.

These little snapshots offering the reader more insight into these gorgeously complex characters, beautiful musings on life, love and living through grief, and how ultimately "𝗟𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗮 𝘃𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲."

I enjoyed the slow reveal of the Why, that eludes the reader until closer to the end, which was as sad as it was beautiful. Although Stevens might break your heart, she offers a sense of mending it (slightly.) It'll have the reader thinking about life, love and the basis of human connection, how something can be so fleeting but equally endure lifetimes.

Beautifully devastating love story spanning through the eons - time and space. Wow, this book was so unique, the plot twist had me jumping up the sofa and putting down my kindle! When fated love takes on a new meaning.
This is exquisitely written and although I found it a bit slow - I didn’t struggle like with most YA Books I read.

I ADORED this with all that I am. The whole concept is just DELICIOUS: two souls through time finding each other, loving each other, being ripped apart from each other. The characters are just amazing and I could’ve kept reading for PAGES more. The ending gave my heart everything that it needed to be healed from all the tears I shed. I loved all of the stories through time of them meeting each other again; I just wanted more and more. God, I just adored this so much. The world better fall in love with this too.

'I love you, and I have loved you, and I will love you'

I requested this because the pitch of The Invisible Life of Addie Larue x This is How You Lose the Time War intrigued me and let me tell you, this pitch was was spot on. It has that same tragedy and hopefulness; a love that is doomed and yet persists.

This book is paced perfectly, and there was not a single part of it that felt unnecessary to me. Despite not feeling overly connected to the characters at the start I absolutely raced through it; it was written in a very easy to read yet still beautiful way. I did begin to feel connected to the characters later in the book after learning more about them and there is a lovely message at the centre: 'big joy and small joy are the same'.

I loved the way the story was structured, with flashbacks to their past lives taking place in reverse chronological order. I did wish we got to see a little more of their previous lives and the historical time periods and I did feel it became a little bit too convenient at times to explain away the main character having skill or knowledge with 'they learned it in a past life' but this is probably a me problem.

I absolutely loved the choice to not have these characters reincarnate exclusively as one sex or the other, and this would be a real selling point for me in recommending the book to others.

Overall an enjoyable, easy read, that I look forward to gifting my niece when she a little older.

Thank you to Netgalley and Puffin Books for the eARC in exchange for an honest review.

Very different from anything I’ve ever read.

I really liked the premise of reincarnation and I loved both Evelyn and Arden (how could you not?)
The twist and turns did catch me off guard a few times and I was not expecting one of the bigger twists to be honest!

I’m not sure there will be another book to follow on given how it ended but if it’s is just the one I still feel it was a good resolution.

There were a couple of grammar mistakes that I picked up on but nothing too serious. Overall an enjoyable book x

if you want a book that'll destroy you, let me present our infinite fates.

this book so beautifully encapsulates the unyielding strength of love. it's not just romantic love but familial love too. Evelyn has lived hundreds of lives but still find the hope in each one, she finds room in her heart to love her families so fiercely, that you feel nothing but anguish when she has to inevitably give them up.

Evelyn & Arden's love is immeasurable, in every lifetime he finds her, in every lifetime she can tell who he is by his mannerisms, his love for nature & words. despite knowing he will return to kill her in each life, she longs to see him again, to feel the comfort of Arden and his love. Arden is her homeland, her soulmate. their love defies gender, time, wars, and a fate that means death. they know each other so intricately, down to the very fibres of their being. no matter what came their way they, their love transcends all.

the nonlinear timeline was INCREDIBLE. the present day chapters gave us the opportunity to see what Evelyn was fighting for, answers, truths, survival and love. but the chapters showing their previous lives were some of my favourite scenes I have ever read. they showed the strength of their love, the lengths they would go to. the time periods range from the 1000's to 1900's and each period was so well researched that it felt like I was being transported to that moment. I think my favourite lives were Siberia and the Ottoman Empire but the USA one broke my heart. the depth and description in each one was fantastic and I cannot explain how much I loved them.

Arden stole, my heart. the poetry in '10 thousand years of you' was painfully beautiful. I hope this man knows nothing but peace in his life.

I don't think I can really describe the impact this book has had on me. my perspective has been altered and it makes you really take a step back and reflect. the pacing was perfect and the history of them was so wonderfully woven into the story that my heart just aches for them.

the only thing stopping this from being a 6 star read for me was the final chapter. I understand why it was done, I just hoped for something a little different. it was still a fantastic read.


thank you net galley & penguin for the e-arc, all opinions are my own.

With thanks to Pengin Random House and NetGalley for the ARC!

I don't know how to describe how much I loved this book. It's very rare that a book leaves me at a genuine loss for words. I had high expectations for this book and it knocked every one of them out the park.

From the very beginning of the book, the writing was incredible and consistent. I truly believed our characters loved each other. The way it was described left me breathless, and I really have to commend the author for the powerful writing. It packs a punch, and was very emotional at times.

This book pulled me in from the very beginning and I couldn't stop reading. It was addictive and I had to keep reading to find out more. This very quickly became one of my top reads of the year, and I will definitely be looking to get my own copy for my shelf.

This book finished me. It was a slow burn that was bitter sweet the ending was a bit confusing but could see what the author was trying to do did leave on a cliff hanger as I am a fan of happy endings and it didn't feel like that to me but it kind of was I need another book to get the happy ending as not happy with the bittersweet one. But this is definitely one of my favorite books I have read this year I do recommend this if your in for an emotional journey strap in for this one