Reviews

Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake

jd08's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

blasfeminin's review against another edition

3.5

I see why people would like this. It feels like an adult John Green book with more intricate writing. (Maybe «are you thinking about bees» will be our always) Unfortunately the characters just didn’t hit right for me and i struggled to root for them.

Also there are Some Sentences from Aldo that made me raise my eyebrows and felt so out of pocket :,) (what do you mean you find it sexy that she looks at least five years younger without makeup??? Hello?!)

 I will however praise the voice actors because they did not need to go so hard, the first hour of the audiobook was such joy to listen to. At times it felt more like acting than narrating, especially the voice for Aldo. Love seeing people take audiobooks seriously <3

aquafire's review

emotional medium-paced

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

5.0

kayla_vermaak's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful medium-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

4.5

classwizard's review against another edition

5.0

If John Green swallowed a dictionary and a box of condoms and sat in the corner of a Chicago coffee shop beside a window that leaks smoke from the stoners outside and wrote about existentialism for adults, the result would be this book. There is a lot of sex, but it exists within the story as a form of expression and humanism rather than smut for smut's sake. There is equally as much math, and honestly, that is far more difficult to swallow of the two.

loiise's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.75

hannahbrown589's review

emotional medium-paced

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

3.0

hniereads's review against another edition

5.0

I so desperately want to write a review for this book but sadly i do not have olivie’s brilliance. She’s brilliant, but her brilliance infuriates me or maybe just annoys me or maybe I’m just jealous. We follow two very intriguing characters as most of olivie’s characters are. They are both broken in their own way, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re wrong. He is not capable of taking care of her but she doesn’t need to be taken care, she is perfectly capable of doing so herself but she cannot take of him either.
Or maybe both of them just need to be held by the other and that’s enough, more than enough. We see love in it’s perfect and pure form and how it like everything else is flawed and that’s ok. That’s exactly what makes it human or simply makes it alive.

vickyreadsx's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

4.0

michellechien930's review against another edition

3.0

It seems like a crime to say that I didn't like Olivie Blake's "Alone With You in the Ether" when it was so many people's favorite unorthodox romance, but I just didn't really get it. Olivie Blake's writing is really beautiful, the prose flows wonderfully but I found "Alone With You in the Ether" very surface-level and indecisive. Its characters are somewhat unlikable, and I didn't really understand the "click" between them or what the point of the story really was. Finished the story out of obligation, really not for me but the right audience would enjoy it.