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

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I don't think I have the words for this book, at least, not yet. Which means this is probably the wrong time to write this review. But I do know, that for me, this was the right time to read this book.
Recently, I've been struggling with my own mental health, and feeling like I have to be tethered to a person in order to be healthy. This book was so wonderful about exploring how that feels. It guided me through how I feel lost in the world and in time. How a person can bring you back, and endorse your unhealthiness. This isn't a clean, 100% healthy love story, and I feel like that realism with the book's surrealist topics made it feel so undeniably real. While listening to this book, I felt like I was floating, but I for the first time, I knew that it's okay to do that sometimes. It's okay to float, and there are no perfect circles.


(If you liked The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern, and How It Feels to Float by Helena Fox, I think you'd like this book)