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

dark emotional reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

Ooof. Yeah, this was not for me, although I really thought it might be for a hot second! Part of the problem might be that I chose audio, but by the last third of the book, I knew it was also the lack of plot. I agree with another review noting that this was clearly a labor of love for the author, and I appreciate her explicitly stating that pills are not bad in her author's note — because the whole book basically seems to be trying to say the opposite of that. I have complex feelings about meds and treatment, but Regan truly needed them, and the book seems to argue that she was better off without them. Pretty tired of that trope, which feels a bit 2007 for me to be reading in 2023.
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