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Alone with You in the Ether by Olivie Blake

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kittkat's review

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emotional hopeful inspiring slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Fuck Marc🀬!

Regan arbeitet in einem Museum, sie wollte mal Künstlerin werden, aber stattdessen ist sie fast im GefÀngnis gelandet. Regan hat einige Probleme, die sie aber nicht ganz offen mit allen teilt, nach außen wirkt sie für alle wie ein kompliziertes Problem, das man sowieso nicht lâsen kann, also warum sollte man sich nÀher mir ihr beschÀftigen?

Aldo ist wohl der furchtbarste Mathe Prof aller UniversitΓ€ten der ganzen Welt. Meistens denkt er ΓΌber theoretische Mathematikprobleme, Quantenphysik oder Bienen nach (die Reihenfolge hier ist arbitrΓ€r). Sein grâßtes Problem als Dozent ist jedoch nur, dass er nichts wirklich verstΓ€ndlich erklΓ€ren kann und er will das auch gar nicht kΓΆnnen. Ignorant king πŸ’β€β™€οΈ! Aber dahinter stecken auch ganz viele eigene Probleme und vielleicht braucht er einfach diese Distanz zu anderen.

6 GesprÀche kânnten alles Àndern. Oder auch nicht, aber sie werden nicht mehr zu ihrem vorherigen Leben zurückkehren kânnen. 🀭

Schreibstil: 12/10 - genau so wie ich mir perfektes Storytelling vorstellen. Wenn ichs beschreiben mΓΌsste, wΓΌrde ich sagen, es ist sehr β€žstream of consciousnessβ€œ (= so wie wir denken-mÀßig)

Charaktere: sind echt/10 - ich kann nicht mehr ohne sie leben

Marc: -∞/10

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arturo_luzen's review

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challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced
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  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0


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cobaltmade's review against another edition

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dark emotional funny reflective sad slow-paced
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  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

im totally inlove with AldoRegan no one can stop me

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anusha30's review against another edition

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dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced
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  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0


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tabbed_reads2much's review against another edition

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dark emotional tense slow-paced
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  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

To any person working through their abuse trauma: this book is not for you right now.

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_simplyrochellereads's review against another edition

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hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced
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  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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noveltay's review against another edition

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emotional funny lighthearted sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

One of the best romances I have read. Had me hooked from first chapter to the end. The way she shed light on mental illness and episodes, and also showed how those people can still be loved was a great message to readers. I also will never look at bees the same again.

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azrah786's review

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3.5

Β **I was provided with an ARC through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review**

CW: mental illness, suicidal ideation, drug use/abuse, alcohol, addiction, toxic relationship, panic attacks, emotional abuse, infidelity, sexual content, abandonment
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Olive Blake is an expert at writing messy, chaotic characters that you can’t help but be engrossed by and highly introspective narratives that really get you thinking.

Alone With You in the Ether is not your conventional love story. It’s about two people whose lives colliding sets them both on a journey of finding love and acceptance of themselves, of each other and of their place in the world. As made evident in the author’s note/acknowledgements it is a deeply personal book and after reading that part and seeing the idea at the core of the story it really enhanced the meaning behind everything.

However, I would be lying if I said I didn’t have issues with it and this for the most part comes down to the writing. Sporadic and inconsistent is probably the best way to describe it which I guess sort of reflected the protagonists themselves but it did also get confusing at times. At first you’d have random cut off where external narrators would jump in and say their piece in between the main story. Eventually I thought this was pretty cool, I mean characters breaking the fourth wall to add a detail every now and again gave the story a film like feel. Bu then this then stopped happening midway and diverged into chunky monologues from the leading characters. Now I’ve personally come to realise that I don’t exactly vibe with the rambling monologue narrative style which is probably why I didn’t wholly enjoy it.

Though I will say that I really enjoyed the β€œconversations” section of the book, it was the part that hooked me onto the characters the most. Blake has shaped two beautifully realistic and flawed characters through her words and I found that I couldn’t help but fall in love with the deep bond that formed between them despite elements of their relationship coming across as a little toxic.

If you pick this one up it is without a doubt going to stick in your mind for a long while.
Final Rating – 3.5/5 StarsΒ 

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amiably's review

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

it saw right through me. heartbroken it's over.

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