Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake
6/19/2020
Genre: romance
Page number: 300
For me, this started off a bit slow, but once I was able to get into it, I started to really like the writing style and how the characters were portrayed. It’s split into 6 parts, the first part is their lives before they met, and the rest are the after. 
This is the kind of book where it’s for hopeless romantics. And I don’t know how to describe it other than in monosyllables. The characters Aldo and Charlotte are so complex and messy.
These two people, Aldo and Charlotte, meet in the armory of the Art Institute. Aldo is a doctoral student who has destructive thoughts with a hyper-focus on time travel. Charlotte is a bipolar counterfeit artist with a complicated family life. They both have their own flaws, which causes trouble once they meet and everything changes.
A quote I loved was,, “She is in all of his spaces and all of his thoughts. He contemplates formulas and degrees of rationality and they all turn into her. He thinks about time, which has only recently begun, or at least now feels different. He thinks: the Babylonians were wrong; time is made of her.”
TW: panic attacks/disorders, sexual content, addiction, and mental illness.
