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

emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

“The day before was nothing special. It was special only because of how unspecial it was, or perhaps by how unspecial it would very soon become. things were always stranger in retrospect, which was a funny little consequence of time.”

Found this book firstly in between my shelf and heard almost everyone around me talked about it— before I decided to put my hold on the line to read each page of it. Based on its title, my first impressions of this book was sorta kind like; `Wedding Tomorrow You,’ as it lead us The Ether or the holy places on the altar, to the science-fiction phrases that make this book sound more tragically unrequited love happening at its core. As I try to dig into it, I found it far away from that! 

It's like a magicless glimpse into the nature of love, what it means to be unwell, and how to face the fractures of yourself and still love as it you are not broken. The story is soft-crack and safe, that immediately lead you to the home sweet home ambience as you wouldn't turn your page down. It's a little guide for us to find in the meaning of inner peace in between this crowded hazardous place. As what people used to believe the universe was filled with light needed to pass through something, only Einsten proved light can be particles, which don't need a medium to travel through. Ether was what they called the air in the realm of the gods, a shining, a fluid substance. Alone in everything. In time and space, in existence, in religion. 

Alone With You in The Ether, like its name, is the story of how you let yourself be all alone with the love you cherish. It's a book about love, loss, and fighting those against it that come upon it all the same. It is a story that will teach us if this is what is to burn, then they will be worth more as scattered ash than any of my unscathed pieces. It also showed us for some reasonable disguises how toxic relationship works based on mental clinical issues, as we learn how to face it and deal with it with other people. Two cupids with their arrow from the east and west coast to find each other. It will be a little magical thing that laid on your mind for more decades later. If you are looking for the sacrifice of life-time to make it works for the whole flowers pathway, then I really recommend this book for you.