![]() ![]() If I had a physical copy, I might have turned it into a coloring book. If I could, I’d have highlighted my entire kindle copy. This is a gorgeously written book and I can’t stress that enough. This is the problem with mortality, which is in fact a problem of time. ![]() Your future self will always see what your present self is blind to. The mind comforts itself by believing this to be coincidence but isn’t-it’s ignorance falling away. When you learn a new word, you suddenly see it everywhere. I kind of wish it was touched upon more, but it doesn’t really influence the story all that much. It’s a part of who they are, and kind of left at that. Honestly, I’m not a genius nor do I love math, but I relate to Aldo so much for some reason because of how his mind and thought process works which is probably part of the reason why I love this book so much.Īldo and Regan are also both biracial- Regan is half-Chinese while Aldo is half-Dominican but their heritage isn’t really explored in the novel and just touched upon. Simply, put they’re both not okay in their own way and having two neurodivergent characters as leads in a romance novel is one of my favorite things in this book. Rinaldo Damiani or Aldo, is a pot-smoking, leather jacket wearing doctoral student of theoretical mathematics who has an incredibly low rating on and is anti-social as well as clinical depressed and OCD. She’s an artist or at least wants to be, but she feels that her pills make that difficult. Regan is a curious woman, a compulsive liar, and has a lot of issues with her family. She has mental health issues, has a court-ordered psychiatrist, and has been arrested for counterfeiting art. There are two characters we follow in this story, Charlotte Regan or Regan, who works at the Art Institute of Chicago. If you’re into academia aesthetics, AWYITE kinda reminds me of light academia and/or romantic academia. It’s the kind of book you’d want to read in the summer, in the daylight because it fits the mood perfectly. ![]() It is simply incredible and it’s difficult to fill or even articulate the void it left in my heart after I finished it. It is so to my taste in a way I haven’t even considered exactly what my tastes are. I didn’t realize it would be the perfect romance novel for me. ![]() Alone With You In The Ether caught my eye and it seemed more like the kind of books I’ve been picking up recently so I decided to read it first. I originally picked this book up because I’ve seen a lot of people talk about The Atlas Six on my twitter timeline so I decided to check out Olivie Blake’s other books. How often did nature create perfection? Almost never. What does it mean to fall in love? When do you realize you’ve fallen in love? How do you love even when you’re broken, when you yourself struggle to accept the rawest, most honest parts of you? It’s a literary romance in the best sense of the word and because it is a romance novel, there is a happy ending, or as happy as it could be given the personalities of the characters. It’s a book that made me think deeply about love, life, time, and art. It’s a truly underrated book that I want to recommend to everyone I know. It conveys the feeling of letting someone into your space, and allow them to get to know you- not the façade you might put up, but the real and the messy, even if it’s done inadvertently because they see you, see through you.Īlone With You In The Ether is one of the best romances I’ve read in a long time and I will continue to think about it for a long time. It conveys the feeling of the intimacy that comes with someone who engages with what you’re saying no matter how little they understand what you’re talking about simply because they find it- you interesting. It feels like baring a part of your soul to another, it conveys the intimacy that comes with a conversation with someone who doesn’t simply listen to what you’re saying because listening is the easy part. It is beautiful, literary, philosophical, magical without being fantastical, romantic, and intimate. There would be times, particularly at first, when Regan would attempt to identify the moment things had set themselves on a path to inevitable collision.Īlone With You In The Ether has captivated me in a way that no romance novel has before. ![]()
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