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

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Their looks, fears and flaws become just as ornamental as the time and art theories of their conversations that point like maps to their underlying feelings, and I find it a rather beautifully bittersweet theme to place art and science together as a romantic couple hoping their union is an eternal, cosmic force that can even bend time to its will. This normally would not bother me, but between Regan and Aldo, there was sex, obsession, co-dependence and very little else. 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 was meandering through the reviews on this and found some of the popular ones describing how this was glamorizing deteriorating mental health, etc. This is what I get when I go into a book expecting it to become a new favorite based on the synopsis and glowing reviews. 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 will cherish this book with every fiber of my being for the rest of my life and i want it engraved upon my heart.Blake brings Chicago alive here, taking us through the streets, the classrooms of the University of Chicago where Aldo teaches and into the absolutely amazing Art Institute where Regan works as docent. I will not understand how this book is classified as a romance when it felt like a horror story in my eyes. While family is gathered, children playing, and everyone being merry, this book came to me like a gift, packaged with elements of raw, unadulterated beauty. 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.

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. 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? Their personalities had two or three distinct traits and little to nothing else to cling onto, as a reader, as we meander throughout their relationship that seems all consuming to them, but, as an outsider, deeply confused me because they speak for hours on hand but manage to say nothing in the process.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. As someone who can't imagine going off medication atp, the author's story was so relatable and so inspiring. Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake is a literary, intimate study of time, space - and a love story like no other.

Following two vulnerable and flawed characters who come together to form a deeply unhealthy, sex-addicted, codependent relationship, this book left me baffled that people can romanticize and idealize the relationship between Aldo and Regan when I was actively rooting for them to separate and seek help. People who are difficult to love still deserve to be loved, and that is captured so elegantly in Alone With You in the Ether. this is a character driven book and the plot is the characters lives so don’t go into it saying “omg it’s so pretentious” like that’s the point.Interactions that seem so small and minute between them felt so intimate and so tender that my heart ached in the best way. Her choice to abandon her meds is troubling, though Blake explains in the afterword that it is not meant as ‘ perscriptive’ and is largely based on her own experiences and struggles with medication after a bi-polar diagnosis. How is that in the same book as “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. 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.

A glimpse into a joining of hearts and minds as Aldo and Charlotte meet and fall ever deeper into love. i know this might sound awfully selfish, but if i could, i would keep this book to myself forever and ever and never let anyone approach it. Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake is a glimpse into the nature of love, and how to face the fractures of yourself.Regan doesn't adhere to normal rules, always thinking of a better or worse outcome,bored with monotony. 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. Many will disagree with me on this and that's ok but let me just say that what is painted as her vulnerability and uniqueness in this story just came across as manipulative and dependant for me. the narrative definitely gives off the vibe that its trying too hard, not to mention how inconsistent it is in a few different ways.