Niki's Reviews > Alone With You in the Ether

A very self indulgent book, Olivie Blake herself admits that in the afterword. All her novels are, to some degree, but I especially felt it here because it read a bit like fanfic of her own life (again, she admits it herself)

Someone with her exact condition meeting a guy who just adores her no matter what, while she's mostly using him for validation (seriously, Aldo is stated to be madly in love with Regan, but her POV never comes close to that degree of adoration. We get constant descriptions of her being amazing and fiery and 'a titan' but Regan never sees Aldo as anything close to that. She only sees what he can do for HER, him 'keeping her together' and 'grounding her so she doesn't slip away', stuff like that), and they end up together "despite all odds!" (meaning: even though their respective families don't think they should be)

This is supposed to be a triumphant story of love prevailing no matter what, and it was pretty good..... up until they 'officially' got together. Then it just devolves to typical cringy descriptions of sex and endless navel gazing like "I think you carry around a sadness from another life. From centuries ago" or (paraphrased) "We're in love, who are we hurting? Fuck you!". I know all young couples think they've reinvented the wheel, but that doesn't mean that I need to read about that cringe. I've lived it.

So yeah. TL;DR: very self indulgent, very verbose, pretty one sided if you ask me (the codependency of the relationship is also never questioned), read uncomfortably like fanfic of Olivie Blake's own life. Came away just glad I managed to finish it.