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

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

2.0

i love character driven books and i love experimental writing, so i should have loved this, but there were many writing and character decisions that i didn't get along with and actively took me out of the narrative. for me, this book went the way of other lackluster character-driven-beautiful-writing stories where it loses its impact in the second half because it hasn't built enough to sustain itself to the end. ultimately i lost patience with it but i see the potential here — i related to some passages more than i'd like to admit on storygraph, and blake's personal connection to this story was beautiful to read in the acknowledgments.
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