Alone with You in the Ether

A Love Story

By: Olivie Blake

Narrated by: Robb Moreira, Sura Siu, Olivie Blake, Tim Campbell, Eliza Foss, John Pirhalla, Steve Wagner, Emma Paige West, Dion Alexander

"At the aural epicenter, Robb Moreira and Sura Siu alternate between protagonists Aldo and Regan’s perspectives. The listener is immersed into their sharply distinct, mundane, yet complex worlds..."- Booklist

Narrated primarily by Robb Moreira and Sura Siu, this program features a cast of cameos, including one from the author.

From Olivie Blake, the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six, comes an intimate and contemporary study of time, space, and the nature of love. Alone with You in the Ether explores what it means to be unwell, and how to face the fractures of yourself and still love as if you're not broken.

CHICAGO, SOMETIME—
Two people meet in the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts with compulsive calculations about time travel; she is a bipolar counterfeit artist, undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy. By the end of the story, these things will still be true. But this is not a story about endings.

For Regan, people are predictable and tedious, including and perhaps especially herself. She copes with the dreariness of existence by living impulsively, imagining a new, alternate timeline being created in the wake of every rash decision.

To Aldo, the world feels disturbingly chaotic. He gets through his days by erecting a wall of routine: a backbeat of rules and formulas that keep him going. Without them, the entire framework of his existence would collapse.

For Regan and Aldo, life has been a matter of resigning themselves to the blueprints of inevitability—until the two meet. Could six conversations with a stranger be the variable that shakes up the entire simulation?

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books.

©2022 Olivie Blake (P)2022 Macmillan Audio

Critic reviews

"Alone With You in the Ether plays with narrative structure and linear time to weave a story of two broken people crashing together like comets, and we, as audience, are witness to their glorious destruction." — Tor.com

“This is a book to savor.” — Publishers Weekly

Thank you

I realize something about me and my mind after finishing the book and i want to thank you for writing this beautiful story.

Intriguing

I love the writing style of Olivie! She is so talented and very creative, it is a magnet that draws me in. This story is intriguing and engaging. I did have to stop occasionally to ponder it and relate. I could watch it like a movie. It was captivating!

The perfect circle.

The performance was a little confusing at first; primary narrators had some good bouts of bringing the characters to life, but in my opinion, there were a lot of scenes that could've been done differently.
Overall bittersweet story; one that comes to full circle.

Lyrical and mesmerizing

I honestly wasn’t sure what to think of this book. But the writing was so different than it had me hooked,yet a little confused in the beginning. Once I got used to the authors writing style, I fell in love with the characters. I am definitely going to have to go back to read this, so I can highlight my favorite quotes. What a great book it was so different and so cool I don’t even know what to say.

Wow

For someone who hasn't had or lived around the mental perspectives depicted in this story, I absolutely ADORED this story. I feel that I can understand a larger segment of humanity now, and I thank you so much for sharing this rawness with us. I cannot wait to read more of your novels.

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One reader on good reads called this a pretty outer shell with no substance. I’m inclined to agree. The characters aren’t actually complex and their faux complexity hides a very simple and stereotypical “genius” and manic pixie dream girl. Not even a satire of this type of story. I have an hour left and I don’t think I can make it!

chewing on this audiobook

i have read this book before but the audiobook just adds to the experience of it all it’s so good

Wow

This book is something serious I loved it. Pulled at my heartstrings!!! Highly recommend for my romance lovers.

Complicated in a good way

This was my 1st book from by Olivie Blake. I was confused at times with the narration on who was speaking and how they were speaking. Internally or externally. I found myself rewinding a few times. To make sure I understood what and how it was being said. This was a story that needed to told and needs to be read. It gave me a lot of insight and perspective. The acknowledgment moved me tremendously. It was full of emotion and insight. I wish I would have read it first. It would have helped prepare my mind on what I was going to read. I know I will listen to again now that I understand the style of writing.

A true love story

Loved this book, something registered very deeply inside as if though I was part of Reagan’s thought process as weird as it was connected with my inner thoughts