Our Infinite Fates — Laura Steven || Book Review
- The Keeper
- Feb 6
- 3 min read
Updated: 4 days ago
This story will live inside your soul
and fill you with a yearning for
something unattainable.
Book Content Warning — Depiction of murder, chronic medical illness, and grief
Post Spoiler Level — Mild
Our Infinite Fates is a soul-aching contemporary fantasy novel about a love that transcends time, anatomy, and death. Our heroine and hero, Evelyn and Arden, were cursed a millennium ago to kill one another before their eighteenth birthday. After every death, they were immediately reincarnated to complete the same cycle over again. With their memories of each life surfacing around the age of eight, Evelyn would wait the next ten years for Arden to find her and kill her. Most lives, they’d fall in love despite knowing their destiny. They loved each other through the rise and fall of empires, through torture and pain, and through the loss of so many possible futures.
Shadow: V | Fire: Kindle
Our Infinite Fates
Laura Steven
Hardcover (Exclusive Edition) — 352 pages
Contemporary Romantasy
February 4, 2026 — February 4, 2026
Musings
Exordium & Enthrallment
I received Laura Steven's Our Infinite Fates in the Owlcrate's March 2025 YA Fantasy box. The theme was Until We Meet Again, and boy, did this book deliver! This book burrowed its way inside my brain and made a home for itself. The yearning, the heartache, and the ending?? My heart roots for these two endlessly.
This gorgeous edition featured:
Exclusive redesigned dust jacket with art by @annguyenart and design by @lichen_and_limestone
Reversible dust jacket designed by @art_by_benni
Foil hardcover case designed by @littleforestcat_
Foiled end pages designed by @hachandraws
Stenciled edges designed by @annguyenart
Author signature page designed by @the.pearledreader
Author's letter bound into the book
Bonus content bound into the book
Ribbon bookmark
Laura Stevens’s Our Infinite Fates left me bereft. I’m still stuck in 986 when Daphne lost Calliope. The cruelty of the Mother and the turmoil that this loss caused have left an empty ache in my chest. I know this is a book I’ll always think about — notably about Arden’s poem book, Ten Hundred Years of You. There’s nothing more romantic than poetry about an everlasting love.
Favorite Quotes
“I love you, and I have loved you, and I will love you.”
“in the last thousand years:empires have risen and fallenand I have loved you,plagues have leaped from rat to daughterand I have loved youhumanity has conquered sea and skyand I have loved youkings have been slain and forests razed and witchesburned and and gold struck and maps redrawn andfortunes traded and volcanoes erupted and moonslanded and cathedrals sculpted and rivers dirtiedand masterpieces painted and battlefields bloodiedand I love you,and I have loved you,and I will love you.”
“Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.”
“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.”
“Even when we are but bones in the earthMy eternal heart will love you still,For even when a star does perishIts light burns on for millennia…”
“You see me to my very core. I know that to be true. Nobody has ever known me, or will ever know me, like you do. That’s such an intimate thing. You can’t help but be drawn to someone who understands your every word, your every step, your every heartbeat. And I love the connection you have to nature. Your roots are buried so deep in the earth. When I see a gnarled tree branch or a beautiful lake, I think of you. It makes it feel like you’re all around me, in every twig and leaf, in every butterfly and every bramble.”
Finale
Coda
Our Infinite Fates was a five-star read for me; it’s a novel I’ll think about and re-read constantly. Arden and Everlyn’s story will live inside your soul and fill you with a yearning for something unattainable. Stevens took the beauty and ethereality of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and the timelessness of Tuck Everlasting to create an exquisitely beautiful love tale for the ages.
If you haven’t read Our Infinite Fates, you need to! May I suggest you read it on a rainy, cool day with a warm mug of coffee? Get comfy, cause you’re in it for the long haul.
Read it? Then talk to me! What did you think of the 1006 reveal? How about the final twist? Are you as affected by it as I was? What did you think of the ending? Do you need a novella as badly as I do??? Comment below!!
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