Alone With You in the Ether Paperback – June 20, 2020

Loved the book

This was such an eloquent story of life and love from the perspective of people who are different. A beautiful representation of mental struggles, the meaning of love through the vision and surfactants of mental disorders. A story of two people finding themselves by finding each other and learning to move and waist as one in a life and the ether!

I saw this book on a video somewhere titled "books I wish I could read again for the first time," and it did NOT disappoint. I laughed. I cried. I scoffed. I took a break and made a cheesecake and then finished it the same day I purchased it anyway.

I’m honestly not sure what to feel about this book. It was written oddly… at least in a format I’ve never read before.My initial thoughts after reading it was that it was trying too hard.Aldo is a mathematical genius and Regan (Charlotte) has bipolar, is lost in life and is an artist.I know there is someone out there for everyone and I think they fit perfectly but I couldn’t get over the way the author portrayed her needing him so much in order to get better. I get he was her muse in a way but idk I can’t quite put my finger on why I didn’t love this book.

I don't know how to describe the revelations and connections I felt while reading Olivia Blake's book. I had to keep on checking in with myself to see if I was really understanding this book as a sort of a reflection with the way my brain thinks--mostly. I am a neurodiverse person but haven't been diagnosed with bipolar however, I'm rethinking getting evaluated. This book was full of rapid fire thoughts that I have never read in a book, maybe I haven't found those books but the story between Regan and Aldo was beautifully complicated, so vivid, all encompassing, them together being so different and completely the same, a true math/life/relationship equation, and intimacy on steroids. Thank you Ms. Blake for sharing this incredible truth of a book. It seems that a door opened up in my brain to push me to create and accept my thought process --- finally. Can't say enough tks.

Not sure anything about this is believable. It has some elegant writing and deep understanding but it wasn't for me.

Alone With You In The Ether has captivated me in a way that no romance novel has before. It is beautiful, literary, philosophical, magical without being fantastical, romantic, and intimate. It feels like baring a part of your soul to another, it conveys the intimacy that comes with a conversation with someone who doesn’t simply listen to what you’re saying because listening is the easy part. It conveys the feeling of the intimacy that comes with someone who engages with what you’re saying no matter how little they understand what you’re talking about simply because they find it- you interesting. It conveys the feeling of letting someone into your space, and allow them to get to know you- not the façade you might put up, but the real and the messy, even if it’s done inadvertently because they see you, see through you.Alone With You In The Ether is one of the best romances I’ve read in a long time and I will continue to think about it for a long time. It’s a truly underrated book that I want to recommend to everyone I know. It’s a book that made me think deeply about love, life, time, and art. It’s a literary romance in the best sense of the word and because it is a romance novel, there is a happy ending, or as happy as it could be given the personalities of the characters. But it is a happy ending.I really do highly recommend this book. It’s a lovingly told love story with two flawed, but deeply fascinating characters at its center and a message that just because you have issues doesn’t mean you can’t love or you don’t deserve love. It’s literary, philosophical, intellectual, and romantic. No other book has left such an impact on me. No other book made me reread after I finished it. It quickly became my favorite book and it surprised me in such a good way that I don’t think I’ll ever be able to fully articulate.

This book was recommended to me by a like-minded friend. I will say it is not for everyone as it dives deep into theoretical and existentialist thought; however, if you have a curiosity about the meaning of life and the loose definition of time, this book will CHANGE you. I have never read a book and felt so understood in both the “pretty” and “ugly” facets of my own mind. The paradox relaying that you can’t have one without the other is hypothesized and proven so well throughout the entire narrative.This isn’t like the cheap “beach read love stories” that have been so commercialized as of late. This is a raw, beautiful, ugly, honest (but also dishonest at times) summation of what it is to be a human being. The fact that it successfully incorporates a love story to match is a true testament to the author’s talent in reflecting upon the innate desire to find one’s TRUE match. I will only recommend the book to those I feel can truly appreciate it but I know that each and every one of them will find the same life-altering experience that I did while reading it. Bravo, Olivie Blake. You are truly a standout voice of this era.