Our Infinite Fates by Laura Steven – Book Review | The YA Shelf

Our Infinite Fates Review: Love Keeps Finding the Same Fatal Ending

Our Infinite Fates begins with a wonderfully cruel romantic problem. Evelyn and Arden have lived many lives across history, and in every one they find each other. They also kill each other before their eighteenth birthdays. In the present, Evelyn needs to survive long enough to protect the younger sister who depends on her.

Laura Steven moves through past lives to show affection, rivalry, recognition, and violence wearing different faces. The structure turns reincarnation into emotional evidence. Evelyn does not merely believe she has loved Arden before; she carries memories of tenderness and death that make every reunion both irresistible and horrifying.

A Thousand Years of Longing, One Life to Save

The historical glimpses are lush, sometimes more like beautifully lit rooms than fully inhabited eras. The rules of the reincarnation mystery also stay hazy until the plot is ready to use them. Readers who need a hard magical system may find themselves asking practical questions the book prefers to answer with feeling.

Feeling, fortunately, is something Steven handles with confidence. Evelyn’s devotion to her sister keeps the romance from swallowing the present-day stakes. Arden is compelling because eternal love does not excuse lethal choices. The book wants us to yearn and remain suspicious at the same time.

The reveals require a generous relationship with coincidence, but the emotional pattern lands. Strong reader enthusiasm makes sense: this is high-concept yearning delivered without embarrassment. I would have traded a little decorative history for firmer rules, yet the final ache stayed with me.