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

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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. My Mom lives here now, and I'm actually visiting her while I was reading this book--all elements that elevated the story. but this one is different, it’s not for anyone else just because i don’t know how to describe this book for anyone else. But in the blazing glory of their initial infatuations we see clear into them and the very essence of their beings, with Regan representative of art and Aldo representative of science. 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.

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. the book has six parts, and each part had it’s own voice and pacing that distinguished itself from the rest. 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. 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. As someone who can't imagine going off medication atp, the author's story was so relatable and so inspiring.

but unless you can understand having an issue, a permanent, unrelenting and innate part of your brain, ruin so many parts of your life, yet you still feel like you need it, like you’re not whole without it, like there’s no point without it, please don’t criticize it. There are some truly troubling messages about ignoring the signs of deteriorating mental health in this story and one harrowing scene in which Regan (having just semi-broken up with Aldo) has graphic thoughts of stabbing him and her family until she runs with blood. The beginning might confuse you and might leave you scratching your head but godddd, this story was so beautiful. This is, ultimately, a literary romance, one with grit and uncomfortable explorations into themes of mental health, co-dependency, compulsive self-sabotage and the ways the veil of illusion begins to slip as relationships progress and we must decide to crack or embrace that ‘ it is perilously wonderful to suffer so sweetly with you. Come down the travelators, exit Sainsbury's, turn right and follow the pedestrianised walkway to Crown Walk and turn right - and Coles will be right in front of you.

This was my first Olivie Blake and I will certainly read others, it is a book without any fantastical elements though still is undeniably magical. There’s even a point in the novel where they have a fight and Regan has thoughts of stabbing Aldo, her family, and herself, all because she cannot have a man that she is literally addicted to because she puts all her value as a human being into one other person. 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. it just ended with more pretty, empty prose wrapped around a barely formed concept of time travel, multiverses and soulmates who are not really that. This normally would not bother me, but between Regan and Aldo, there was sex, obsession, co-dependence and very little else.

is this a metaphor for something or a truly disturbing intrusive thought of someone who IS NOT WELL! I wasn't able to connect at all for the better part of the first two chapters and then they went to the church and to say I ascended during that scene would be an understatement.

Gallery images of our book boxes show an example of what may be included – treat and gift content may differ. Both obsessive, eccentric personalities, Aldo Damiani and Charlotte Regan struggle to be without each other from the moment they meet. I started this book the moment it landed at my door expecting to laugh and cry and love two flawed humans who were lucky enough to find and understand each other.It is certainly a literary work, and all the heady topics of time theory and reflections and analysis of art are handled in accessible yet ponderous ways that are folded productively into the larger themes of the book. When Regan and Aldo's worlds collide, a chance encounter at the Art Institute, they bank on six conversations, a measure that elevates their relationship to an alternate world. While this book isn't necessarily a romance for me, its been a long time since I felt so connected to the characters AND the connection between them. The prose is pretty but tangential, half the time it feels like it leaves off in the middle of a thought and while I'm mentally trying to fill in the blanks, I've lost all feeling for the story and characters.