The perspective rotates between Regan and Aldo, offering both internal and external perspectives on each other creating more dynamic characters but also allowing us to detect inconsistencies that show how a self-image is often a slight fiction. 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. As always, Olivie Blake brings her characters and her setting to life so vividly and with such precision that the whole book feels like it's alive.

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He gets through his days by erecting a wall of routine: a backbeat of rules and formulas that keep him going. If she had ever asked anything from the universe, Aldo imagined she’d probably gotten what she wished.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. Though these are characters and topics that could lose their appeal in a less capable author's hands, Olivie Blake weaves them together so expertly and so honestly that I haven't stopped thinking about her words since I finished reading two days ago. 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. Narrated primarily by Robb Moreira and Sura Siu, this program features a cast of cameos, including one from the author.

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There are books that are written in such a beautiful way that it feels like no words can do my thoughts justice on this. 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. 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. 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.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. 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. The premise is rather cute with Aldo and Regan agreeing to have six conversations to see what they learn about each other, something right in Aldo’s wheelhouse as ‘ for Aldo, to love something was to study it; to devote every spare thought to understanding it. Deliveries to destinations outside Australia are made by DHL courier, and cannot be made to post office boxes. I can't precisely describe how this book made me feel while reading it, however, to name just a few emotions, it would have to be: transparent, alive, awake and hopeful.

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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. 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. It was Aldo’s firm belief that the hexagon was the most significant form in nature, not purely because of his fondness for the Apis—commonly known as the honeybee—but not entirely unrelated. 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.Regan and Aldo fall into something far beyond existential, beyond the quantum physics Aldo obsesses over. At many points, Regan is truly manic (not in the funny personality sense but as in DSM criteria mania sense), makes questionable personal decisions, commits a criminal act (this is never really addressed) and shapes her world entirely around Aldo and how him being a genius and wanting her somehow elevated her personal value. i really liked the sciencey part of the book too, made me feel super smart even though i know nothing about quantum physics or the concept of time travelling. There is a musicality to it, but it is like every instrument in a band trying to all take a solo at once in the cacophony of feeling so much you aren’t sure if you can contain it. They drummed against the threading of his jeans, impatient, while his left hand continued the motion of faux-smoking.

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He could get arrested for not-smoking or die at any moment, and then he’d have to do his thinking in jail or not at all, and the universe would remain unsolved. I’m not one usually for a romance novel, but this feels rather different than what one would expect. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. I will not understand how this book is classified as a romance when it felt like a horror story in my eyes.

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. This chilling story of ambition and magic will make you question your own morals as you grow to love (and hate) its fascinating, ruthless cast of characters. 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.