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Os nossos eternos destinos by Laura Steven

78 reviews

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

if "The Husbands" by Holly Gramazio and "The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue" by V.E. Schwab had a beautiful, perfect, prodigy baby. 

"How could the soul fated to kill me be the one to make me feel so alive?"

"Suffering is in itself a pyramid scheme. Hurt people hurt people. One soul feels pain, so they inflict the same upon three more, in a bid to rid themselves of it. ... The human condition, so it seems."

"To love was to live, and to live was to die."

Seriously one of the BEST books i read this year. started it and finished it less than 48 hours. love love love. 

i am absolutely blown away right now!!!

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emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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challenging emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced
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Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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dark emotional mysterious slow-paced
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Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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This was an intriguing story which I found very easy to get caught up in.

Arden and Evelyn are bound together by some supernatural force.
In each life, they die, at the hands of each other, before their 18th birthday.
And each time, they come back.

This time, Wales 2022, Evelyn is determined to stay around long enough to save her sister Gracie and maybe get to the bottom of WHY this keeps happening. Surely there is a way to break this curse she finds herself trapped in, to never reach adulthood.

This story definitely has some non-linear components and a fated romance type tale. As we learn more about their lives we also visit different locations and time periods and take a fascinating look at just what defines a person. Is it their gender, birthplace, caste in life, traits, physical or otherwise, disabilities...? And just what is a soul?

I am especially glad that this was a standalone as I don't think it needed to be dragged out into a second book, but I do feel that the ending could have been a little bit tighter and some of the earlier exposition could have been a little bit shorter. Regardless I had no problem staying interested in the story and really liked all the extra background context to their past lives.

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Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Very poetic and reflective 

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Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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adventurous emotional mysterious sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Every once in a while a book come around that makes the reader feel sad that it’s over and happy for the experience. This is one of those books. It has quickly become my favorite book of all time and I highly recommend it to anyone who wants a true love story. If I could rate it higher than 5 stars I would. 

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