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

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This is a love story, but not a love story, because it's complex, it shatters, it sometimes has jagged edges, which gives everything life. She says so at some point - that if she was on medication still, she couldn't/wouldn't have loved Aldo. She chases highs, she is assailed by intrusive thoughts (some violent), she is her own worst enemy and both she and Aldo fear she is using their relationship as a fix instead of truly working on herself. Olivie has penned several indie SFF projects, including the webtoon Clara and the Devil with illustrator Little Chmura and the viral Atlas series. Gallery images of our book boxes show an example of what may be included – treat and gift content may differ.

The fact that I even finished this book is an accomplishment for me because I came thisclose to dnfing it more than once. There is also the issue in which medication and therapy are painted as obstacles to true love or feeling anything at all. i don’t know how it is to anyone else, if it’s aggressively unrelatable or boring or weirdly paced, so don’t listen to me. Regan did not enjoy honesty, she hated it, was repulsed by it and by her own truths especially,’ and the way the readers perceptions on Regan morph over the course of the book—and with new revelations on her life—emphasizes the way a person seems always in flux.People who are difficult to love still deserve to be loved, and that is captured so elegantly in Alone With You in the Ether. it was cool in the beginning with their dialogues about bees, time travel and art etc, but as the book dragged on i just found myself less interested in the characters, and when the writing style changed into just endless paragraphs without any conversations at all towards the end, i just lost my patience with it. Blake aims for grand phrasing of emotions that land quite impactfully and, sure, it may be overwrought at times but that's exactly how obsessive love feels. It does touch close to the romanticization of mental health struggles being a gateway to good art, which is a troubling perspective, though that doesn’t seem the intent.

I understand this is the point of it all, but that doesn’t mean I have to enjoy the ride, nor does it negate how often I see people praising this as one of the most romantic books they’ve read. they were both dealing with a lot when they met, and the realistic portrayal of mental health was very much appreciated. 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.There are books that are written in such a beautiful way that it feels like no words can do my thoughts justice on this. Olivie lives in Los Angeles with her husband and new baby, where she is generally tolerated by her rescue pit bull. 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.

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. but unless you can understand having an issue, a permanent, unrelenting and innate part of your brain, ruin so many parts of your life, yet you still feel like you need it, like you’re not whole without it, like there’s no point without it, please don’t criticize it.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.

The beginning might confuse you and might leave you scratching your head but godddd, this story was so beautiful. Perhaps the easiest to love character is Masso, Aldo’s charming, well-meaning father—a sharp juxtaposition from Regan’s mother who we see as highly judgemental through Regan’s perceptions—though even he warns Aldo that Regan is the type to burn someone up. 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. If this is what it is to burn, he thought, then I will be worth more as scattered ash than any of my unscathed pieces. how the characters were viewed in an omniscient way; all their cracks and flaws laid out for us to comprehend.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. 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? Told through prose that has passages so ethereally gorgeous it could only exist in service of love and with a dual narrative that threads their lives together, Alone With You in the Ether is a gorgeously interior and intimate portrait of difficult love that we can’t help but dive into even if it is destined to burn us down to ash as Blake’s storytelling beautifully cuts right into the troubled heart of matters as deeply as she cut into the heart of the reader. the book has six parts, and each part had it’s own voice and pacing that distinguished itself from the rest.