OUR INFINITE FATES BY LAURA STEVEN // spoiler-free book review: ya romantasy or reincarnating soulmates with complex discussions on gender & love?

This review was written like 7 months ago, but the awful person I am is only posting it now. I apologise to the publishing gods on the daily frfr

Anywho,,, let’s get into!

Title: Our Infinite Fates
Author: Laura Steven
Page count: 352
Date published: 27 February 2025
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Romance

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Synopsis:

They’ve loved each other in a thousand lifetimes. They’ve killed each other in every one.

Evelyn remembers all her past lives. She also remembers that in every single one, she’s been murdered before her eighteenth birthday by Arden, a supernatural being whose soul―and survival―is tethered to hers.

The problem is that she’s quite fond of the life she’s in now, and her little sister needs her for bone marrow transplants in order to stay alive. If Evelyn wants to save her sister, she’ll have to:

1. Find the centuries-old devil who hunts her through each life―before they find her first.
2. Figure out why she’s being hunted and finally break their curse.
3. Try not to fall in love.

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Big thanks to Penguin Random House SA for the eARC via Netgalley & physical review copy! All thoughts and opinions are my own.

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STAR RATING: (4 out of 5 stars)

Moment of silence for the glory that is this cover because my jaw will forever be on the floor.

Here’s a snippet from past me who read this book early but sucks too much to post this review before release date: Okay anyway, I feel far too early to even talk about this book yet so I shan’t be saying much. All I will say for now is that this book is 10000% worth your time and I’m so excited for it to hit shelves next year!!!!

Arden can also step on me,,,

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When I tell you this book had me hooked from page ONE I do not overexaggerate. I was obsessed before I even started the book and basically inhaled it. Slowly because work apparently. But inhaled nonetheless.

The writing was absolutely spectacular. The way the multiple timelines was also perfection? I can often find critiques when authors do this, but Miss Laura Steven NAILED IT. I was drawn into every century, every “new” character’s mind, lost in what I didn’t think could be a sadder scenario. So basically an emotional rollercoaster, but I was happy about it? Kinda?

Idk I do have a death wish, so maybe that’s the explanation.

Moment of appreciation for the way in which Laura Steven also managed to make me love the same narrator in a different body in every timeline? Ngl this is hard to explain but it’s written in first person and it’s always the “female” main character (we’ll get into it) whose head we’re in and I LOVED EVERY TIME.

I have two favourite things about this book: romance and gender. The first is self-explanatory because I’m a hopeless romantic. The latter, however, is something that makes me want to scream into the abyss, and that is the way in which gender was discussed in this book. The book was marketed (to me) as queer and I guess it kinda is? But not in the typical sense. Obviously, the book is about reincarnation and what I loved most is how they would reincarnate into different genders and the way in which the characters dealt with this. And that is, they literally just moved on? It was effortless and beautiful to watch them love each other in every timeline. SCREAMING INTO THE ABYSS,,,,

Let’s talk about love, baby, let’s talk about Evelyn and Arden, baby… Hope you enjoyed my Salt N Pepa remix there. But it’s true, I loved them. Like a lot. Maybe so much I need to find my reincarnation soulmate? These two were both gutwrenching but brilliantly charming and funny? When I tell you I was CACKLING at some of the moments. Ugh, just love all around <3<3<3

My one teensy complaint was that I didn’t *love* the last 20% of the book. No spoilers obviously but I wanted more from the ending?

Nevertheless, this is for sure a book you need to add to your TBR so you can too can feel wholly alone and without a lifelong soulmate. It’s a really fun feeling to be honest.

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“My heart is a haunted house surrounded by a moat of my own digging, kept empty of warmth so I won’t miss it come winter.”

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“It never failed to amaze me, even after all these centuries, that the elements cared not for human pain. That the sky and the stars paid no heed to the obliterated corpses below. That the birds still sang each morning, no matter how many men had fallen the night before. Sometimes that sense of insignificance was a comfort. But here, languishing in a rotten maze carved into the ruined earth, I felt nothing but despair. How simple and beautiful life could have been. How far that humanity had strayed.”

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“Like the sway of the sea and the tug of the tides, love is a moving, eternal thing. Let us not be afraid of the wax and the wane, the rise and the fall, the eternal undertow. Each time our souls meet, let us submerge our bodies in the bright blue cold, and let the waves make us anew.” A tear slid down the apple of her cheek. “I love you, and I have loved you, and I will love you.”

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

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“Though, without you, there would be no poetry. I would have only the harsh lens of my own worldview. I wouldn’t be able to see the beauty of life, because I only see it through your eyes. Muse is too simple a word for what you are to me.”

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“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.”

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HAVE YOU READ THIS BOOK? WHAT WAS YOUR FAVOURITE PART? HAVE YOU READ ANY OF LAURA STEVEN’S OTHER BOOKS? ANY RECOMMENDATIONS? LET ME KNOW!