This is an underground cult classic. I heard about this first on an author's Baen book listserve (can't remember which) and I was intrigued.

About ten years later, I found all three books at my library's used book sale for $9. I took them home and immediately opened the first one.

This books sucked me in. I loved the artistic nature of the books, and the interactive experience. Sabine and Griffin's story is sweet, and then tragic, and them bordering on hysterically absurd. I still don't know what happened but I'm glad I got to watch it unfold.

I see there is a sequel. Why aren't Bantock's books more well-known and available in the US? ( )

Ohh, this is intriguing! I need to know what happened to Griffin! And who really is Sabine?! ( )

These books formed a very large portion of my childhood. My mom used to read them to me, at a maddeningly slow pace. Each night when I was heading to bed she'd come into my room and we'd painstakingly remove a letter from its envelope. We'd spend nearly as much time looking over the drawings, the postcards, just the gorgeous artwork of each piece. Then the letter would be read.

It was a magical experience, and one I ended up repeating on my own when I was old enough. I spend just as much time examining the script, the art. These books are a work of art, as much as the story in and of itself is. It's a book to fire the imagination, to whet the appetite for more.

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This trilogy is a treasure. Read a while ago, but it certainly is a MUST REREAD. ( )

The books are works of art in themselves. The story revolves around Griffin, a man who designs cards and an islander woman, Sabine and their extraordinary correspondence through letters and postcards. What's quirky is that Sabine can 'see' Griffin designing his work even though she's not physically there with him. A romance develops between the two and they seek to find a way to 'leap' into the same dimension so they can be together.

What's startling about these books are that the story is delivered in actual letters that one pulls out of little envelops stuck in the book, or written on beautiful postcards, and the pages are often illustrated with little symbols, doodles, or partial designs. It's beautiful, it's exotic, it's sublime and one loses oneself in the story and in the art. ( )