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This isn't your typical love story but it was funny, heart warming and heart breaking. A love story that began as an email being sent to the wrong address in an alternate universe. A great page turner if you love fantasy realism.

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Confession time: I have a soft spot for Sci-Fi Romance. I love sci-fi, and I very much enjoy a cute love story, and when you put them together it’s like chocolate and peanut butter. (Just in case you’re outside the US: yes, that’s a very good thing.)

The Impossible Us was right up my alley. This book is like “You’ve Got Mail” with a multiverse sci-fi twist. Nick, a soon-to-be-divorced freelance writer, and Bee, an endlessly-Tinder-dating designer, strike up a friendship as the result of an email sent to the wrong address. Their conversations bring them closer and closer together, but when they finally arrange to meet, they inexplicably can’t find each other – because somehow, they’ve managed to connect across parallel worlds.

I adored the relationship and sparkling banter between Nick and Bee, who are perfectly suited to one another, but I really enjoyed a lot of their relationships with side characters as well. Nick has a really touching bond with his stepson, and Leila and Bee’s friendship is fierce. I even liked Nick’s eventual friendship with Geoffrey, the Berenstain Society kook (who turns out to be a lot less loony than he first appears.)

Overall, this book gave me some strong star-crossed lovers, “Time Traveler’s Wife” vibes, though it turned out to be less of a tearjerker than that one (thankfully, since I read this at work.) If you’re a sucker for a sci-fi romance mashup like me, don’t miss out on The Impossible Us.

Representation: Major side character of color

CW: infidelity, infertility, abortion, suicide

I received an advance copy of this ebook from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.