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

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About the Author: 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.

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.I’m not one usually for a romance novel, but this feels rather different than what one would expect.

and are they a safe harbor where the other may flourish or will they run to ruin, dashed to pieces on the shoreline of the other. i like that sometimes people read and understand my opinion on something, or at least get a laugh out of it.I will not understand how this book is classified as a romance when it felt like a horror story in my eyes. The prose is quite engaging and this is a much faster paced novel than I tend to read so I was gripped the whole way through.

She works at a Museum, mostly as a guide, her parents are absent as hell, her mom-destructive and cutting, and her sister, too perfect for words. Regan and Aldo fall into something far beyond existential, beyond the quantum physics Aldo obsesses over.I love the way it spirals through the stratosphere or seems to be tumbling out of control or even trails off mid-thought because it so lucidly captures untethered emotions (and intrusive thoughts, which are constantly present in this book). Regan struggles to define herself for herself and even many of the bad-faith representations of her she rages against are mostly invented in her mind (Blake has a brilliant moment of narrative crafting when we discover the argument between Regan and her mother is all staged in her head though proceed to assume her fictionalized words are the truth of how she feels about Aldo and Regan).

The premise is rather cute with Aldo and Regan agreeing to have six conversations to see what they learn about each other, something right in Aldo’s wheelhouse as ‘ for Aldo, to love something was to study it; to devote every spare thought to understanding it. Art is loss,’ she muses, ‘ it’s the fleeting breath of a foregone moment, the intimacy of things undone, the summer season that passes. 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.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. My Mom lives here now, and I'm actually visiting her while I was reading this book--all elements that elevated the story.