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Elaine Marinas

This book will stay with you long after you've put it down

Reviewed in Australia on July 7, 2020

Alone With You in the Ether is brilliant. 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. Her style is such a gift for this story in particular, which zooms in on highly specific (and complex!) individuals, art, and math. 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.

I highly recommend Alone With You in the Ether to anyone who wants to read something honest about love, and life itself.

Silver

One of my new favourite books of all time

Reviewed in Germany on May 5, 2022

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This book ripped me to shreds to only sew me back together. They must have stuffed me full of bees, time, mathematics, obsessions and cravings before Olivie Blake masterfully healed me, though, because I will forever view the world with Aldo and Regan in mind. A part of me, in return, had been taken to be put in between the paragraphs of devastatingly gorgeous prose, and I definitely do not mind one bit.
Definitely read this if you are a hopeless lover of love, like me and love character-driven stories.

Leyny

It is impossible to put this book down!

Reviewed in Germany on September 18, 2020

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Everything about this book is just brilliant. I`m amazed by the vulnerability of these characters, Olivies writing style and the love story she created. To qoute Aldo, I`m in love with her brain. Seriously. I highlighted my favourite lines and now there`s more highlighted than there is not. I really recommend this book, I`ve already read it twice. Also it is not too complicated to read for someone who is not native, like me. A must read!

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Sarah

Breathtaking

Reviewed in Italy on July 5, 2020

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Poetic and tragic, a real rollercoaster of emotions that will tear you to pieces and then rebuild you. I really loved every bit of it, couldn’t stop reading it and finished it almost in one go.

Alex

recomedable

Reviewed in Spain on January 3, 2022

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recomendable

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Rebecca

Great book

Reviewed in Germany on December 20, 2021

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Nicely as described.

Alexia

A Beautiful Slow-burn Love Story About Loving Even When You're 'Broken'

Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2021

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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.

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Stacy

Stunning

Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2021

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Sometimes when fantasy writers focus on the mundane, they flourish. More and more lately it seems I find myself in character driven worlds that are absolutely devastating (in a good way). Sometimes we're told characters have fallen in love, but that doesn't necessarily come through the dialogue or actions of the story. With Regan and Aldo, I felt it with my entire being. This is an instance where I'll be getting this book in paperback after having read it simply because it NEEDS to be on my shelf.

I recently read The Atlas Six and really enjoyed how much time was spent developing the characters, and Alone with You in the Ether likewise showcases Blake's skill in this area. This is one of those books that I didn't want to end; there's no need for a sequel, but I absolutely love the characters and want to revisit them and this specific instance of their lives. Much like a painting captures a specific moment or feeling, this book and these characters exist perfectly in the finite time we see of them.

I've recently purchased a few more of this author's works and can't wait to get lost in them. She's quickly becoming a new favorite.

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Jan

here’s me trying to convince you to read this glorious book

Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2022

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Tears are rolling down my face because it was so easy to find a fracture of myself in both Regan and Aldo.

A few things you will find carved on my tombstone when I meet my inevitable end: (spoiler warning)

- That I could study you for a lifetime, carrying all of your peculiarities and discretions in the webs of my spidery palms, and still feel empty-handed.

- “You can’t fix me,” she whispered to him, her mouth tracing his neck. Do you understand, do you know what you hold in your hands, do you know how readily it breaks? “I don’t see anything to fix,” he said.

- “She does burn me, she ignites me, you’re right. But it’s different, they’re different things.” He was thinking more than he was saying, unsure what was even coming out of his mouth. Science without faith is crippled, Masso, and life without it is soulless. She is my hope and for that she is dangerous, unequivocally, but she is also alive, unreservedly. It took this long for me to finally understand.

I wish I could say more and do more than regurgitate Olivier’s words to you, but something about experiencing this book is profoundly personal and intimate. My brain has rooted this book and implanted it so deep in my subconscious. Needless to say, I will carry Aldo and Regan and perfect imperfections through my time on earth.

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Makenna Winchester

Changed my life.

Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2022

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I loved everything. I related so well to her, but that was far from the only reason I fell in love with this book. The choice of words? Astounding. Just the pure gift this author has to publish this book, is extremely evident. The story was beautiful. The book is beautiful. She is beautiful. He is beautiful. The way their minds work? Absolutely gorgeous. This book will be reread over and over and will keep a special place on my headboard. Even though I’ve read it, it is the kind of book you can read a million times and never get sick of. Plus, every time you read it, you recognize more things than you did the time before that. Please please read this book. My life is completely changed after reading it, and my purse will always be a little bit heavier knowing this book will always be on me.

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