"Just like the two characters in Laura Steven's Our Infinite Fates, it feels like we're destined to fall in love with this book again and again." —Cosmopolitan
"An excellent, anticipation-worthy achievement." —Booklist
“Two doomed souls keep reincarnating as star-crossed lovers in this sweeping romantic fantasy… vividly illustrating love’s boundless nature.” —Publishers Weekly
"Sprawling, star-crossed, and sensational, OUR INFINITE FATES is the kind of book that only comes around once in a lifetime. With immaculately crafted settings and whirlwind twists and turns, Evelyn and Arden's story is a breathtaking romantasy that gives enemies to lovers a whole new meaning" - Kara A. Kennedy, author of I Will Never Leave You
“One of the best books I’ve ever read.” - Rachel Greenlaw, author of Compass and Blade
"It has been a very long time since I’ve found a story as sweeping, as heartbreaking, and as utterly gorgeous as Our Infinite Fates. With effortless finesse, Steven weaves a tale that manages to feel epic and vast, but also beautifully, achingly intimate. I was on my toes from this book's beginning, and by its end I knew one thing with certainty: Evelyn and Arden are a pair for the ages." - Ayana Gray, New York Times bestselling author of Beasts of Prey
“Our Infinite Fates is the type of book that demands to be read in one sitting, then takes up residence in your mind for days afterward. It’s more than just a twisty, romantic story—it’s a meditation on love, the human condition, the indescribable and the intangible. I was utterly enraptured and absolutely enthralled.” - M. K. Lobb, Sunday Times bestselling author of Seven Faceless Saints
"Vividly beautiful and brilliantly transcendent... Laura Steven’s imagination is endless, her prose brimming with a magic that threads emotion and meaning into the ordinary everyday.” – Amélie Wen Zhao, New York Times bestselling author of the Song of the Last Kingdom duology
"A beautifully tender book about the power and vulnerability of loving deeply. Our Infinite Fates is an iridescent ode to love, life and humanity. An absolute triumph." – Bea Fitzgerald, Sunday Times best-selling author of Girl, Goddess, Queen
"Impossible to put down." V.E. Schwab, internationally bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
"Romantic, gorgeous, and so breathtakingly clever it hurts... Evelyn and Arden have crawled under my skin and into my heart, and Steven has (once again) broken me & stitched me back together. I've never been so happy to have my heart shattered." - Rebecca Mix, New York Times bestselling author of The Ones We Burn
“Our Infinite Fates blew me away... At once completely original but also like reading the story of an old friend, deeply romantic and heart-shatteringly painful... Compelling, timeless, and beautiful, I have never read anything like it.” -Lindsey Kelk, Sunday Times bestselling author
"This gorgeous book is a must-read of 2025. It's like The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets Every Day and was a perfect, beautifully written, heart-wrenching story. What a privilege it was to read it early. " -Diana Urban
“Our Infinite Fates is the kind of book you only come across once in a lifetime. Laura Steven has crafted an ambitious tale that is both unforgettably epic in scope and filled with intimate moments of quiet, piercing brilliance. A propulsive and aching exploration of love, time, fate and death that is destined to leave its mark on us all.” — Emma Theriault, bookseller & author of Rebel Rose
2024-11-23
Teens are doomed to repeatedly fall in love—and kill each other.
Welsh teen Branwen is the latest reincarnation of Evelyn, a being who’s over 1,000 years old and is fated to die, again and again, shortly before their 18th birthday. Intertwined in their fate is Arden, with whom they have fallen in love over the course of 100 lifetimes, and who is their perpetual murderer/victim: When Arden kills Evelyn, Arden immediately dies as well, and vice versa. This time, Branwen needs to stay alive long enough to donate stem cells to her sister, a leukemia patient. To do so, she’ll need to figure out who Arden is in their current form and convince them to help. The story is interspersed with chapters from their previous incarnations, offering glimpses of a variety of times and places and helping to create a sense of urgency as the mystery unfolds. Notably, they are French soldiers who die in the Great War and, in the 1930s, Algerians raised to hate the French colonizers. Steven delves into the inherently queer concept of swapping bodies and switching genders; Evelyn doesn’t have a strong attachment to living as a particular gender, but Arden expresses a preference for “being a boy.” Some of the incarnations enable the author to explore same-sex longing and romance in various contexts, although the brevity of these interludes leads at times to insufficiently nuanced representations of the cultures at hand.
An intriguing romantic fantasy with characters readers will root for.(Fantasy. 14-18)
