Our Infinite Fates - Review

*I received a digital copy from Wednesday Books and an audio copy from Macmillan Audio via NetGalley. All reviews are my own.

For those that has been following my journey on Instagram (@TheLittLibarian), ya'll would know that I made the pain in the ass decision of making my 2025 reading goal all about raising my reviewer percentage on the ARC-haven site, NetGalley. This has got to be the worst challenge I have put myself in so far, but I'm still swinging in the ring! I'm currently at 37% (I'm trying to reach 80%. Pray for me, y'all), and I hope that finally dropping the review for this next title will help raise that percentage a bit. Hey, a girl could dream! Today we are all about Our Infinite Fates by Laura Steven!

"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."

Digital reading has not been on my agenda lately, so I decided to listen to this story via audio. The 11-hour and 12-minute tale is narrated by Sofia Oxenham, best known for her starring role in Extraordinary and her performance as Princess Eugenie in A Very Royal Scandal. I'm not familiar with the actress, so I decided to give her voice a shot. She wasn't my favorite narrator – at times she slipped into a lull of breathy, romanticized tragedy, but I can also recognize that her style was perfect for the tone of the book.

Our Infinite Fates was an interesting read for me. When I initially added this to my TBR, I thought I was going to get a story centered around reincarnation with a touch of rage romance thrown in. That wasn't quite the prose. In each lifetime, every year before her 18th birthday, Evelyn is killed by the same person, Arden, with no explanation as to why. In this new lifetime, Evelyn tries her hardest once again to live long enough to save her little sister from a fixable death, before Arden comes to claim the cycle. I was hooked on the premise of Evelyn trying to outlive her death date while figuring out why she has an expiration date in the first place. However, after a while, my interests began to decline.

The way Steven wrote the story was extremely romanticized. It is considered a Romantasy, so that's my fault for picking it up in the first place, but I thought we would get some sleuthing and mystery in the mix. Think about it, why is the main character being killed off at her 18th birthday for each lifetime? What kind of curse did she invoke to drive someone mad enough to want to murder her? I was invested in that part of the story, which is why I held on for so long. OIF almost resulted in a DNF because I was so bored. The pacing and repetitiveness did not help. What saved me was that we did get a glimpse of her previous lives and how she died, as well as the plot twist! I can usually guess what's going to happen in a book before I get there, but this one threw me for a loop. The unexpected outcome altered my perception of how this book was structured.

Overall, I rated this book 2.5-stars. I was expecting more from the story. It took too long to reach its intended destination, and it felt hollow at times. I didn't feel a connection with the characters or their plights, which made it even harder for me to focus. Again, this is considered a Romantasy genre, and I'm now getting into the Romance side of books, so I wasn't a particular fan of the writing. But if you're in it for a magical entanglement, the reveal is going to mess you up!

Our Infinite Fates is available now!

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