Review by amateur_bookworm - Our Infinite Fates

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Our Infinite Fates by Laura Steven

4.0

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Our Infinite Fates by Laura Steven is a fantasy and romance blend. “𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺'𝘷𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺'𝘷𝘦 𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘯𝘦.” I mean, if that doesn’t make you want to pick up the book, then I don’t know what will. And if the first chapter doesn’t leave you shaking your head and muttering “what the f—k”, then is it even worth reading?!

Right off the bat, it was giving me mad Addie LaRue vibes (from The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab, which is one of my all time faves.) Which, I already would’ve known this if I had read the actual blurb for the book and not just BOTM’s synopsis. Because it’s literally the very first thing the blurb says. But, alas, I will forever and always be terrible about reading blurbs of any book before diving into it, but what a pleasant surprise it turned out to be here.

I really enjoyed the writing. I found a lot of the lines to be very poignant and insightful about life and love and mortality. The time jumps were interesting to see not only Arden and Evelyn’s relationship in a different time period but also the little snippets of history throughout. Other than the whole murdering each other thing, I think it’s a beautiful idea for two people to keep coming back in each life and always finding each other again.

I love the idea of the little lost book of Arden being later turned into a published book of poetry in the aptly named “Ten Hundred Years of You”. I love the idea that a small piece of yourself, cast off and lost, could someday make it out into the world and you’d live on through your words in people’s hands and thoughts. (I guess that is *quite literally* what being an author is, but I like the idea of it unintentionally happening here.) The excerpts of the poetry from the book throughout really ties it all together and conveys the nature of Arden and Evelyn’s connection to each other. And, I love that Arden writes more poetry in each life, no matter where or who he is. That a fiber of your being is so strong that it reappears in every single life, no matter the circumstances.

I really felt the tension of the buildup to the explanation of the reason for their peculiar situation. But the final reveal fell pretty flat for me. It was good, but it wasn’t great for me. I also was confused when Arden was sometimes referred to as “they” instead of “he”, particularly when I’m already trying to grasp what is happening in the plot and when it was done so inconsistently.

Overall, I’m glad I read this one. It was one of my March BOTM picks. I’m sure that I would not have picked this up otherwise, and this book is exactly proof of why I keep my subscription going. It definitely expands the genres and authors that I read.

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