Alone with You in the Ether: A Love Story by Olivie Blake

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From Olivie Blake, the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six, comes an intimate and contemporary study of time, space, and the nature of love. 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. CHICAGO, SOMETIME—Two people meet in the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts with compulsive calculations about time travel; she is a bipolar counterfeit artist, undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy. By the end of the story, these things will still be true. But this is not a story about endings. For Regan, people are predictable and tedious, including and perhaps especially herself. She copes with the dreariness of existence by living impulsively, imagining a new, alternate timeline being created in the wake of every rash decision. To Aldo, the world feels disturbingly chaotic. He gets through his days by erecting a wall of routine: a backbeat of rules and formulas that keep him going. Without them, the entire framework of his existence would collapse. For Regan and Aldo, life has been a matter of resigning themselves to the blueprints of inevitability—until the two meet. Could six conversations with a stranger be the variable that shakes up the entire simulation?

  • Product Features

    • Suggested age range - Adult
    • Format - Hardcover
    • Dimensions - 5.3" W x 8.6" H x 1.1" D
    • Genre - Romance
    • Publisher - Tor Publishing Group, Publication date - 11-29-2022
    • Page count - 288
    • ISBN - 9781250888167
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1 year ago

Cringe

Simultaneously pretentious and dumb

Customer review from barnesandnoble.com

3 years ago
from Roanoke, VA

This book is STUNNING

I was anxious about picking this one up as I couldn't get into Blake's The Atlas Six, but Alone with You in the Ether is one of the most stunning books I have read in a long time. Blake's writing is beautiful and entranced me from the start. Aldo and Regan are both such flawed individuals, but the way they change and grow (both together and apart) throughout the book you can't help but love each of them despite their difficulties.

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3 years ago

A Masterpiece. A Must Read.

I really can't fully put into words what this book did for me, but it struck me to my core. It is art in the truest sense of the word. A generational masterpiece. As someone who struggles daily with mental illness and who has felt the otherworldly weight of its impact on my life and the life of my loved ones, this book was was... powerful. Heartbreaking yet.... comforting. There are many that wont understand this story, but it's not for them. I'll treasure this book and what it gave me for the rest of my life.

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3 years ago

A Complicated love story

I'm a little confused ... On the one hand I liked this book very much but on the other hand there is something that didn't make me love it immensely! Now let's try to figure it out XD The thing I liked was definitely the writing style: Olivie Blake writes very well and we all know it! Her style is something unique, it is very light but deep and thoughtful. In Alone With You in the Ether, writing is one of the strong points of the novel and this is what makes this reading an immersive and magical experience! Another point in favor of the book are the characters, especially Aldo! I loved him and his mind, the way he thinks, how he talks, how he reacts, how he sees the world… it's all perfectly described! I liked Regan too but not as much as Aldo, I couldn't get in tune with her! The beginning of the novel fascinated me very much and kept me glued to the pages, but, when I arrived in the middle of the book, everything collapsed! I lost interest and the story got pretty boring, don't get me wrong, as I said earlier, the characters and writing style continued to be on point but the plot got completely lost! Having said that, Alone with You in the Ether is a very interesting and well written book, it is a very deep and romantic book, it is a book with two truly real and flawed characters, but the plot in my opinion was not developed in the best way! Thanks to Netgalley, Pan Macmillan Tor and Olivie Blake for providing me with this ARC in exchange for an honest review! Alone with You in the Ether is out everywhere on November 29, 2022! If you are looking for a complicated love story, real and flawed characters and exceptional writing, don't miss it!

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