This is some notes I wanted to make on another book series before I talked about reading The Impossible Us. This will be spoiler territory for the first Griffin and Sabine book trilogy. I think I read this series long before I started this blog so there shouldn't be mentions of it already around these parts. Discussion of the plot below the spoiler cut. It's not a review since I haven't reread these lately.
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Griffin Moss is an English post card designer. Sabine Strohem is a stamp designer in the Sicmon Islands. Sabine has been having random visions of an artist painting their works since she was a teenager, and she finally stumbles across an article in which she figures out who the artist is. She writes to Griffin and they start "an extraordinary correspondence," very artistic, with a lot of actual envelopes and letters to read within the book and take out. This is all great fun.
But finally, Sabine insists on wanting to meet Griffin, and he runs from it like a thief in the night. He travels around, she hangs out at his house, okay fine. But at the end of book 2... apparently the two of them were somehow in the same house, not experiencing or seeing each other? DA FUCK?
In book 3, the two of them try to figure out this problem via letter, while a creepy dude tries to horn in on them. Eventually they are all, "oh hey, there's a gate in Alexandria and we can go through it!" (seriously I don't remember that being foreshadowed, seemed like it came outta nowhere) and presumably that solved the problem, I guess? There's a second trilogy I tried reading but was not terribly into, I have only just found out there's a seventh book covering their actual meeting.
Here's a good recap of how that book goes.
"this overlapping of time and space seems like we're living in parallel universes. Do you think we are separated for life, each unable to exist in the other's presence?"
Apparently not, in the end.
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