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

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I could study you for a lifetime, carrying all of your peculiarities and discretions in the webs of my spidery palms, and still feel empty-handed. Their connection is superficial and deeply obsessive (they both don’t have a single friend and barely reach out to their family because they are all consumed by each other), and it concerns me that their ending connection feels like a triumph when they are not in a good place to be in a relationship.

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).

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. Regan and Aldo fall into something far beyond existential, beyond the quantum physics Aldo obsesses over. 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. 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. 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. i found myself looking forward to hearing their thoughts on different theories and ideas and learning something new. 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.as unlikely as it sounds given the negatives i just listed, there are some true moments of beauty in this.