“After all this time, your fate has not bled you dry of it? You still have not learned that love cannot conquer all?”

This was poetic, whimsical, magical, and time-bending.

“I will always be yours. But I gave up the right to call you mine a long time ago.”

What would you do if the love of your life killed you before your 18th birthday? What would you do if you reincarnated and history repeated? Your love finds you before your 18th birthday and kills you again? Over and over for a thousand years. Losing mothers, fathers, brothers, and sisters, losing everything except your love over the millennia. Arden knowing nothing but Evelyn for a thousand years. Evelyn having no memory of why Arden was doing this.

“You have faith in all of humanity. You have faith in love. Please, have faith in me. I do this to protect you. Do you understand that? That I would lay my body over yours, war after war after war, life after life after life?”

I loved the concept of soul love in this. Loved love, yeah, I’m using that word too much. Anyway. Soul love for Arden and Evelyn was that no matter what body they wore in each life, man/woman, their souls loved each other. Evelyn didn’t identify with one gender over the other, whatever body Evelyn was in was acceptable. Arden did prefer a male body but also didn’t have to many objections when they were female. Love existed beyond the physical.

“If a hero is someone who will give up love to save the world, then a villain is the reverse. Someone who will give up the world to save love.”
“So you’re a villain. You admit it.”
He shrugged. “There’s no line I wouldn’t cross to keep a loved one safe.”

Our Infinite Fates was a test.

A test of time.

Of fate.

Of love.

Of death.

Of my patience.

It was a great concept, I actually LOVE this concept, the killing over lifetimes, over and over finding each other, but the flashbacks got old fast. I know they were mostly important to the story but I got bored.

“I love you, and I have loved you, and I will love you.”

I was enjoying it, aside from the too many flashbacks, until the end, like 85% in, where I just... what happened?? Like, a pyramid scheme? Really? And the very end? I don’t really like open-ended endings.

But you know, overall, really enjoyable!

Thank you so much to Wednesday Books and the author for an eARC and a gorgeous PR box!

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This sounds tragic.

Sign me the fuck up.