Title: Alone with You in the Ether
Author: Olivie Blake
Pages: 272
Publisher: Tor Books
Release Date: 1st June 2022
Blurb from Goodreads:
From the New York Times bestselling author of
The Atlas Six comes an intimate and contemporary
study of time, space, and the nature of love. Alone With
You In The Ether explores what it means to be unwell, and
how to face the fractures of yourself and still love as if you're not
broken.
Chicago, sometime —
Two people
meet in the armory of the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their
encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive
thoughts with compulsive calculations about time travel; she is a
bipolar counterfeit artist undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy.
After their meeting, those things do not change.
Everything else, however, is slightly different.
Both
obsessive, eccentric personalities, Aldo Damiani and Charlotte Regan
struggle to be without each other from the moment they meet. The
truth—that he is a clinically depressed, anti-social theoretician
and she is a manipulative liar with a history of self-sabotage—means
the deeper they fall in love, the more troubling their reliance on
each other becomes.
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Charlotte Regan is a volunteer tour guide at an art museum who has been in trouble for making counterfeits.
Aldo Damiani is studying for a PhD in maths and is obsessed with bees and time travel.
When the two meet, they are instantly drawn to each other.
Aldo and Regan both have their own struggles, but can they make things work between them?
I wasn't a big fan of the previous book that I read by the author, but I decided to give them another go and requested a copy of this book on NetGalley.
I'm not quite sure what to make of this book. It felt rather messy at times, but it was also very honest about mental health struggles.
I didn't feel that I particularly connected to either Aldo or Regan, but out of the two of them I preferred Aldo. I did find Regan to be an interesting character at times, and I did feel for her, but I didn't find her very likeable.
The plot was mixed for me. I definitely preferred the first half as it felt like not much happened during the second half and I lost interest a little.
I struggled with the writing style at times, especially at the beginning, and I wasn't sure I would even end up making it to the end.
I am disappointed that I didn't enjoy this more, but I have to admit that I did go into this book thinking that I probably wouldn't love it.
Overall, this was a mixed read.
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