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. She doesn’t know what to deal with first, the use of ‘love’ or the fact that it isn’t what she was expecting, or the idea that anyone can possibly think fondly of her brain when she has put almost no effort into molding it. 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. I really loved this book and had goosebumps at multiple moments, it is very moving and searingly gorgeous at times.

i like that sometimes people read and understand my opinion on something, or at least get a laugh out of it. Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake is a literary, intimate study of time, space - and a love story like no other.Olivie lives in Los Angeles with her husband and new baby, where she is generally tolerated by her rescue pit bull. Olivie Blake—a pen name of chosen through a name generator—began her career writing fan fiction and self-publishing novels until going viral on social media landed her a book deal with Tor and the recognition she certainly deserves. More often, her works revolve around our collective experience of what it means to be human (or not), and the endlessly interesting complexities of life and love.

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. 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. uk will use the information you provide on this form to be in touch with you and to provide updates and marketing. This was a book that was clearly a labour of love for the author whose endnote explained her motivations in writing this book.the writing style felt pretentious to me at first; how dialogues switch from being in first person i to being in third person she or him. 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. Regan is a fascinating character, one who is certainly flawed and can be rather frustrating at times but you want her to learn to love herself for herself and not because someone else does. 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.