A review by hannahollihan
Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake

A book about flawed people falling in love. Kind of obsessed with these two. Although I'm pretty uncomfortable with the cheating in this book. Hmm not sure how I feel about this. I'm really invested in the writing/characters, but some of the philosphical musings... are like half formed and not great? Not treating her mental illnesses... not taking her meds? She is only able to paint and love Aldo because she is off her meds? This is also imbalanced character wise towards Regan, Aldo feels half formed. Is she essentially descending into a manic episode? This would be better if it was actually SciFi maybe? Codependency, manipulation… I have no idea how to feel about this. I feel like either Blake is too smart for me to understand, or she is attempting to be smarter than she is and is just writing a confusing mess?