Alone with You in the Ether
Olivie Blake
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
3.91
· Steam/Spice level: 3 of 5
Open door [?]
· 77 ratings · 288 pages · Published: 19 Jun 2020
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?
Sponsored links
Tagged as:
- contemporary 5
- new adult 4
- friends to lovers 3
- angst 3
- christmas 3
- young adult 2
- fantasy 2
- dark romance 1
- time travel 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- mental illness 3
- Format
- Audiobook
romance tags
