Alone With You in the Ether: A love story like no other and a Heat Magazine Book of the Week

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i will cherish this book with every fiber of my being for the rest of my life and i want it engraved upon my heart. for me, it had me fascinated from the third page, then almost shoved me out into another breakdown and had me so so stressed the whole time just to pull me back at the last minute, and at the end i’m still confused. but this one is different, it’s not for anyone else just because i don’t know how to describe this book for anyone else. Regan and Aldo fall into something far beyond existential, beyond the quantum physics Aldo obsesses over.

The author went overboard trying to make the story and the characters seem deep and complex, and it turned out unbearably pretentious, tedious, overwritten, and straight-out boring instead. I will not understand how this book is classified as a romance when it felt like a horror story in my eyes.Le Guin, ‘ it has to be made,��� and through these trials will Aldo and Regan discover a way to make lasting love or will they burn up in each other’s atmosphere? Alone With You in the Ether finds Regan and Aldo caught in each other’s gravitational attraction of love, a love that scorches through them and their physical selves to expose their very essences as forces navigating either by emotion or logic. Because to me, it felt like unwrapping a beautifully wrapped present only to find an empty box underneath.

From the internationally bestselling author of The Atlas Six, Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake is a glimpse into the nature of love, what it means to be unwell, and how to face the fractures of yourself and still love as if you’re not broken. My Mom lives here now, and I'm actually visiting her while I was reading this book--all elements that elevated the story. Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake is a literary, intimate study of time, space - and a love story like no other. Interactions that seem so small and minute between them felt so intimate and so tender that my heart ached in the best way. as unlikely as it sounds given the negatives i just listed, there are some true moments of beauty in this.

To love a person was to forfeit the need to place limits on them, and therefore to love was to exist in a constant, paralyzing threat. I could study you for a lifetime, carrying all of your peculiarities and discretions in the webs of my spidery palms, and still feel empty-handed. What begins as romantic starts to look like a mental health spiral, and what comes easily at first is now fraught with fear and uncertainty, especially in Regan.

and olivie blake just is just such a talented author and the sentences she is able to string together, about really dark and hard to talk about things, really resonated with me in a way other words just never have before. Olivie Blake is the internationally bestselling author of The Atlas Six, Alone with You in the Ether, One For My Enemy, and Masters of Death. Alone with You in the Ether explores what it means to be unwell, and how to face the fractures of yourself and still love as if you're not broken.

There is a musicality to it, but it is like every instrument in a band trying to all take a solo at once in the cacophony of feeling so much you aren’t sure if you can contain it.

I would have enjoyed it if Blake continued this style more through the book as I missed it, but once the characters are established it instead turns more inward as they attempt to have more of a harness on their own narratives. People who are difficult to love still deserve to be loved, and that is captured so elegantly in Alone With You in the Ether. how the characters were viewed in an omniscient way; all their cracks and flaws laid out for us to comprehend.This is, ultimately, a literary romance, one with grit and uncomfortable explorations into themes of mental health, co-dependency, compulsive self-sabotage and the ways the veil of illusion begins to slip as relationships progress and we must decide to crack or embrace that ‘ it is perilously wonderful to suffer so sweetly with you. the moment i read the last paragraph of this book, i thought ah, i would never find a book like this.