It’s a beautifully written book, the author takes a lot of time to bring back ideas from the beginning of the book and to repeat and tie it in at the end. 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. Olivie has penned several indie SFF projects, including the webtoon Clara and the Devil with illustrator Little Chmura and the viral Atlas series. They are difficult characters but they still deserve to feel love and there were fleeting moments I felt this book was akin to Sally Rooney characters. 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.

Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake (Paperback, 2020)

The bumblebee was slow and stupid enough to be petted, which was sort of sweet, though not quite as interesting. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. While I don't enjoy a traditional sappy love story, I did enjoy reading about this rather unconventional couple in a storytelling format that is as unconventional as the characters. They'll need to face their fears and the fractures within themselves - and still love as if they're not broken.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 highly recommend Alone With You in the Ether to anyone who wants to read something honest about love, and life itself.

Alone with You in the Ether - Macmillan

Genau wie bei den anderen Büchern, die ich bisher von Olivie Blake gelesen habe, habe ich auch dieses Buch quasi verschlungen. this is kinda a side note but this book takes place in chicago and that alone can be a five star read for me, but my point is that olivie blake describes chicago so accurately that only a person who has lived here could ever do. Mit viel Einfühlungsvermögen, Feingefühl und vor allem einem großartigen Schreibstil beschreibt Olivie Blake die Liebesgeschichte zwischen den beiden und thematisiert dabei ganz natürlich Themen wie mentale Gesundheit und Neurodivergenz, die in der Geschichte auch eine große Rolle spielen.There is also the issue in which medication and therapy are painted as obstacles to true love or feeling anything at all. struggling with mental health issues myself i really related to some of the aspects that regan dealt with in this book, it really felt like i was understood.

Alone With You in the Ether: A love story like no other and a

I will not understand how this book is classified as a romance when it felt like a horror story in my eyes. 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. 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. Please note that some countries may charge the recipient duties on the 'import' of parcels from time-to-time.There would be times, particularly at first, when Regan would attempt to identify the moment things had set themselves on a path to inevitable collision. The pages fly by in this character-driven novel that is intimate, complicated, and utterly romantic.

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There was something about 'Alone With You in the Ether' that drew me in, tangled me in its abyss, trapped in the world of these two complex characters. Auch wenn es mich, aufgrund des fehlenden Spannungsbogens, nicht so begeistert hat wie die Atlas Six Bücher, war es eine tolle und recht kurze Liebesgeschichte, an die ich sicher noch das eine oder andere Mal zurückdenken werde.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. there is nothing inside my head but aldo and regan and bees and quantum formulas and differential equations and the crevices of their fragile minds and i am at lost for words to describe how utterly devastatingly beautiful this book was. SCENE: The air that afternoon has the crisp, weatherless quality that only happens in Chicago for about a week in mid-September. Interactions that seem so small and minute between them felt so intimate and so tender that my heart ached in the best way. Masso asked the universe how much salt to boil in the water, or whether this vine or that one would provide the sweetest fruit.