Is there an audiobook of Alone with You in the Ether: A Love Story?

Yes. Alone with You in the Ether: A Love Story has an Audible audiobook edition, narrated by Olivie Blake, Dion Alexander, Eliza Foss, Emma Paige West, John Pirhalla, Robb Moreira, Steve Wagner, Sura Siu, and Tim Campbell.

How long is the Alone with You in the Ether: A Love Story audiobook?

The Alone with You in the Ether: A Love Story audiobook runs 9 hr 57 min.

Is Alone with You in the Ether: A Love Story on Kindle Unlimited?

Yes. Alone with You in the Ether: A Love Story was included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on July 15, 2026.

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Our score

4.2/ 5

Excellent

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EDITION PUBLISHEDJune 2022

Genres

Fiction Literary Fiction Romance

Themes

Mental illness and self-perceptionLove as radical honesty rather than repairTime, memory, and nonlinear identityAuthenticity versus performance of the self

Alone with You in the Ether: A Love Story

Name: Alone with You in the Ether: A Love Story
Price: 11.99 USD
Availability: InStock
Author: Olivie Blake

Olivie Blake

Olivie Blake pairs a time-obsessed grad student with a bipolar artist under court order to get better, and builds a love story out of two minds that both refuse to trust themselves.

The Review

Our take

Aldo counts. Regan spins. That's the whole engine of Alone with You in the Ether: a doctoral student who manages his darkest hours with compulsive equations about time travel, and a counterfeit artist who copes with her own mind by imagining herself into a dozen other lives at once. They meet by accident in a museum armory, and Blake spends the rest of the book asking what happens when two people who have each built an elaborate private architecture to survive themselves let someone else see the blueprints.

What surprised me is how little the novel cares about diagnosis as plot. Regan's bipolar disorder and Aldo's spiraling thoughts aren't obstacles to clear before the real story starts; they're the texture the story is made of, rendered from the inside instead of observed from a safe clinical distance. Blake writes Regan's highs with a kind of reckless, funny bravado, then drops the floor out from under a scene with a plainness that stings more for how little it announces itself. The dialogue between Aldo and Regan carries most of the weight, six long conversations doing the work other novels would spend two hundred pages building toward, and it's in those exchanges, half flirtation and half interrogation, that the book finds its real subject: whether honesty about your own damage is a gift you can give someone or a burden you're asking them to carry.

The structure jumps in time without much warning, and readers who want a clean chronology will have to do some assembling of their own. That looseness is deliberate. Aldo's whole worldview is built on the idea that time isn't a line, and the book's shape argues his case for him even when the plot resists it. It also means some readers land on the therapist sessions and side characters as thinner than the central pair; Blake is far more interested in Aldo and Regan's heads than in the world around them, and it shows.

Why you should read

Readers who want literary romance over plot-driven romance
Fans of dual narrators with distinct, vivid interiorities
Anyone drawn to mental illness portrayed from the inside
Readers who like nonlinear, conversation-driven structure

What to expect

Nonlinear timeline built around six pivotal conversations
Dense, image-heavy prose that slows down on interior moments
Dual close-third perspectives with distinct voices
Minimal plot mechanics, maximal emotional interiority

None of that undercuts the two people at the center. Their romance never pretends that loving someone fixes them, and it never pretends love is only worth having once you're fixed either. Regan's counterfeiting, of paintings and of herself, becomes the quiet argument at the heart of the book: that the self you fake your way through some days is not less real than the one underneath. By the end, what stays with you isn't the twist of how they land, but the specific, unglamorous courage of choosing to keep showing up as your unfinished self.

Reviewed by Avery · How our reviews are written

Our verdict

4.2/ 5

Excellent

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Is there an audiobook of Alone with You in the Ether: A Love Story?: Yes. Alone with You in the Ether: A Love Story has an Audible audiobook edition, narrated by Olivie Blake, Dion Alexander, Eliza Foss, Emma Paige West, John Pirhalla, Robb Moreira, Steve Wagner, Sura Siu, and Tim Campbell.
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How long is the Alone with You in the Ether: A Love Story audiobook?: The Alone with You in the Ether: A Love Story audiobook runs 9 hr 57 min.
Is Alone with You in the Ether: A Love Story on Kindle Unlimited?: Yes. Alone with You in the Ether: A Love Story was included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on July 15, 2026.
How much does Alone with You in the Ether: A Love Story cost?: On Amazon: Kindle $11.99, Paperback $11.54, Hardcover $12.38. Prices as of August 21, 2026 at 3:47 AM EDT and may change.

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Common questions

What is Alone with You in the Ether: A Love Story about?: Aldo counts. Regan spins. That's the whole engine of Alone with You in the Ether: a doctoral student who manages his darkest hours with compulsive equations about time travel, and a counterfeit artist who copes with her own mind by imagining herself into a dozen other lives at once. They meet by…
Is Alone with You in the Ether: A Love Story worth reading?: We scored Alone with You in the Ether: A Love Story 4.2 out of 5. Olivie Blake pairs a time-obsessed grad student with a bipolar artist under court order to get better, and builds a love story out of two minds that both refuse to trust themselves.