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

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About the Author: 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. Regan doesn't adhere to normal rules, always thinking of a better or worse outcome,bored with monotony. i will cherish this book with every fiber of my being for the rest of my life and i want it engraved upon my heart. 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.

Blake does well by having the story reject any quick fix or certainty, showing mental health is a lifelong journey and encouraging therapy and repeated self-assessment to remain both productive and healthy. 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.as unlikely as it sounds given the negatives i just listed, there are some true moments of beauty in this. i know it says a love story on the front, but this book is very much about mental health + choosing to not be medicated for mental health conditions. They'll need to face their fears and the fractures within themselves - and still love as if they've not broken. 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.

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. Yet there is a darkness lurking just beneath, something that might not be immediately evident in the blinding glare of meet-cutes and warm infatuation but still casts shadows they choose to find intriguing instead of alarming.Blake aims for grand phrasing of emotions that land quite impactfully and, sure, it may be overwrought at times but that's exactly how obsessive love feels. i was meandering through the reviews on this and found some of the popular ones describing how this was glamorizing deteriorating mental health, etc.