Our Infinite Fates

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What The Vibes Are

What It’s About

The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue meets This is How You Lose The Time War in this fantastical love story that defies death as two souls reincarnate through the centuries.

They’ve loved each other in a thousand lifetimes. They’ve killed each other in every one.

Evelyn remembers all her past lives. She also remembers that in every single one, she’s been murdered before her eighteenth birthday by Arden, a supernatural being whose soul―and survival―is tethered to hers.

The problem is that she’s quite fond of the life she’s in now, and her little sister needs her for bone marrow transplants in order to stay alive. If Evelyn wants to save her sister, she’ll have to find the centuries-old devil who hunts her through each life before they find her first, figure out why she’s being hunted and finally break their curse, and try not to fall in love… again.

What I thought about it

***Possible Spoilers below

Laura Stevens’s Our Infinite Fates is a soul-aching novel about a love that transcends time, anatomy, and death. 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.

Our Infinite Fates has 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 has 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 fallen
and I have loved you,
plagues have leaped from rat to daughter
and I have loved you
humanity has conquered sea and sky
and I have loved you
kings have been slain and forests razed and witches
burned and and gold struck and maps redrawn and
fortunes traded and volcanoes erupted and moons
landed and cathedrals sculpted and rivers dirtied
and masterpieces painted and battlefields bloodied
and 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 earth
My eternal heart will love you still,
For even when a star does perish
Its 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.”

Conclusion

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 etethereality The Invisible Life of Addie LaRuse and the titimelessness Tuck Everlasting to create an exexcruciatingly 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!!

♡ G&P