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Graphic: Violence, Grief, Murder
Moderate: Cancer, Confinement, Death, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Stalking, Gaslighting, War, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder
Moderate: Cancer, Chronic illness, Genocide, Gun violence, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, War
Minor: Sexual content, Death of parent
Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Torture
Graphic: Confinement, Torture, War
Moderate: Medical content
Minor: Suicide
Graphic: Cancer, Confinement, Death, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Drug use, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Ableism, Violence
Graphic: Cancer, Death, Sexual content, Medical content, Grief, Murder
Moderate: Confinement, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, War, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Mental illness, Vomit, Medical trauma, Car accident
Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail
However, the beautiful words is where the enjoyment stopped for me. I found the plot to be repetitive and dull. I wasn’t invested in the love story and felt as if I already knew the ending.
I didn’t completely know the ending, as this huge twist comes out of the blue—but it was a twist that was very out of character for the book and it didn’t immerse me enough to buy into it. Not to mention, once we jump into the twist, we seem to completely forget about the side characters, and never see how their lives play out.
I think if there were more (albeit much much smaller) twists throughout the book and the ending was more led up to with better foreshadowing, I could have liked it more. As it was, though, I wasn’t invested and didn’t enjoy the story 🙁
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
I was getting five star feelings from chapter 3… though I never in 1,000 years would’ve guessed the last 25% of the book. I’m still processing it and I don’t know how I feel about it- but we’re going to keep the five stars because everything else about this story was deeply, tragically beautiful and moving.
(Edit: changed rating to 4 stars because after a month of thinking about it, I decided I didn’t like the ending)
The prose and thoughts on love in this book quietly found their way right into my own soul. (I have 120 highlights lol). The steady consistency that who these two were at their core followed them through each life felt like such a comfort.
I loved the concept. I loved the execution. I loved the set up and the flashback chapters. I loved the mystery of it all.
Notes:
I wish the mystery of who Arden was in this life was drawn out a little longer. I feel like it could’ve been dragged out just a teeny bit longer, the big reveal didn’t feel very big to me.
Evelyn also became a little too wishy washy. She hated Arden and would say as much but in the same breath long for him so deeply. I get the complexities of their relationship, but sometimes this back & forth was too much for me.
Graphic: Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder
Moderate: Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Car accident
I loved the concept and got hooked by the plot pretty quickly. I also really enjoyed that we got to see Evelyn and Arden’s lives (briefly) through the last 1000 years. The end was probably the most impactful for me and I enjoyed the twist at the end.
On the flip side, I felt very little connection to the characters because of the consistent switching of time periods and lives. I wish that the book was actually longer so as to spend more time in each life,
Overall, Our Infinite Fates was good and I may read it again in the future. The writing was also pretty good and I may read more by this author in the future.
Graphic: Cancer, Confinement, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Murder
Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Sexual content, Torture, Death of parent, War
Minor: Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Classism