I really enjoyed this book; it's not your usual run of the mill romance - it's full of so many twists and 'What on earth?!' moments! I wanted to keep going to find out what happened....it's almost like science fiction for rom.com fans!

It's an easy read, although in the arc I had there were some issues with format, and the characters are believable and likeable.

And I bloody loved the ending!!!!!

Wow!! This was absolutely fascinating!!!
Bee lives in London, enjoys limited one night stands, and has her own business which is building its success on social media.
Nick is a failed author and dog owner whose relationship has long since flattened and died off.
Both lost although they don't realise it, until an email sent from Nick directed at a client arrives in Bee's inbox of a Gmail account she rarely uses, and an unlikely connection happens.
Interesting, compelling, gripping and hard to put down.
There is so much involved in this book, from relationships, friendships, connection and disconnection, traumatic events and everyday boredom. The story is quite unique yet so familiar, its very clever, well written and thought out.
For a very different read, this one can't be beaten!!
Thank you NetGalley for the early read highly recommended and appreciated.

I'm not normally a fan of what I'd class as fantasy, but this tale of romance and friendship across the multiverse, in parallel universes, however you describe it, seemed plausible and real. I was rooting for Bee and Nick. A lot to think about as well as a "nice love story". The Berenstain society made me laugh as I remember buying a Berenstain Bears book for my daughter on holiday in the USA in 1998!
And it was definitely Berenstain! Am I living through the mesh? Interesting and a good story. Loved the ending too. #netgalley #impossible

For the first time after finishing my book I sat down to write my review and thought, I don’t want to write a review!

Because the book was terrible?
No!

Because I wouldn’t do it justice?
No!

Reason being I went into this book completely blind with no inkling as to what lay between the pages and I think this is why the dramatic turn of events completely caught me off guard and then had me so engrossed from this point and I don’t want to say anything that will spoil this moment for a new reader!
When a rogue email lands in Bea’s inbox starting “ Listen you tight-fisted pea-brained grouse-shooting tweedy twat” she wasted no time in sending her witty response to its sender Nick! Over the exchange of numerous emails the couple begin to feel a strong bond but they are hesitant to meet and spoil the idyllic connection having not seen a picture of each other. Taking the plunge they set a date and time to meet at Euston station but will they both turn up…….

So I apologise for this shorter than normal review but what I will say is this book is unlike anything I have read before with its fresh original concept it is a romance quite unlike any other. It is perfect reading to keep you on your toes, providing a few giggles along the way as we watch this Impossible romance bloom. Simply put this is such a clever storyline that shows the authors talent and imagination.

Impossible by Sarah Lotz

A misfired, mistyped, angry email from Nick to Bee – not at all the person who was supposed to be on the receiving end – is to change both their lives. Not instantly and not with great shifts of the ground beneath their feet, but slowly and gently. Bee is amused by Nick’s grumpy email (he’s a ghost writer who hasn’t been paid on time) and his self-deprecating humour while Nick falls for Bee, with her strange business of repurposing wedding dresses and her dire blind dates. They slowly get to know one another, purely online, using each other as a way to talk through some quite difficult situations in their lives. They have friends but in many ways they are isolated. Finally comes the time when Bee and Nick are ready to meet in person, under the clock in Euston Station, but, from that moment, the truth begins to dawn and it is impossible.

I love Sarah Lotz’ books. They’re unusual, very clever, frightening in some ways and not a little quirky. I like that. With Impossible, the author returns to the top form of The Three and Day Four, two books I cannot recommend highly enough, and which deserve a re-read. In those novels Sarah Lotz played with the horror genre. This time, romance gets its speculative and curious makeover.

This is a romance but not as we know it. Much of it is conducted by email at a distance, with the narrative alternating between Bee and Nick as they go about their lives while emailing amusing updates to their ‘penpal’. This means the reader gets to laugh but there is also sadness as we get to know the other people in their lives, especially Nick’s stepson Daniel. But all this leads up to where the novel is going and I am not going to say a word about that at all! I hadn’t read a review of Impossible before I read it and that did help but I do want to write this to urge you to dive in. If you don’t read romance normally then this is the romance for you and if you do read it then you will also fall in love with it.

Impossible is clever, sharp, warm, witty and original, as well as being fabulously written. It has the appeal of epistolary novels such as 84 Charing Cross Road while being very different. But, at the heart of it, lies a slowly and beautifully developing love affair between two immensely likeable human beings. It did me good to read it.

Other reviews
The Three
Day Four
The White Road
(as S.L. Grey) Under Ground

It was just a misdirected email but... well... it could have been fate.
We meet Nick and Bee. Brought together after an email goes astray. A ranty email sent by Nick to a client requesting payment. Bee receives it and replies, as you do! They keep up the correspondence and find they are drawn to each other. There's a connection. So... eventually they arrange to meet. And that where it all goes a bit strange... In a good way. For the reader anyway, not the characters, not at all...
And that's all I'm saying. Please go in as blind as you can. Discover the truth at the same time as Bee and Nick. Worry about the future, the past and the present, whatever they are, along with each of the characters. Ignore the "how" don't over think things and just let it flow...
It's very character driven but that's not to say the story is weak. Far from it. It's twisty and turny and delivers some rather nasty shocks along the way as it meanders towards the absolutely perfect conclusion... Enjoy spending time with Nick and Bee and their respective friends, relations and animals. Gasp at what is going on. Root for a favourable outcome, despair when, well, on occasion it isn't all plain sailing.
But above all, just sit back and enjoy what is a bit of an emotional roller coaster ride... It's so very very clever and totally unique... Simply wonderful. Probably ending up in my top ten books of 2022.
My thanks go to the Publisher and Netgalley for the chance to read this book.

Well, Impossible by Sarah Lotz is pretty difficult to review without giving huge spoilers, so this could be pretty short and sweet! It’s about Bee and Nick, two people who meet online, quite by chance, when he sends her a very stroppy e-mail. Except she wasn’t the intended recipient and he has messed up the e-mail address. They start chatting with one another and it goes from being two strangers bantering, to two people getting to know one another, to two people developing real feelings for one another. She lives in London and he is in Leeds so they decide to meet at Euston Station. What happens next is best kept secret, because, although on the surface this is a romance book there is a also more than a smidge of speculative fiction too.

This is an inventive and clever book and its strength lies in its main characters. Bee, a dress maker who repurposes wedding dresses and Nick, a writer are brilliantly written, and their personalities leap from the pages. I found them both to be endearing (if a little frustrating at times) and their e-mail correspondence was fun and lively. They hit it off almost immediately, bringing out the best in one another and their messages feel fresh and zingy. It was easy to root for them, and Lotz uses both their e-mails and alternate chapters from each of their points of view to let us fall in love with them.

Alongside the burgeoning romance, there is also a very clever examination of society and its issues. There was much that gave me pause for thought and which made my brain tick. I love books like this, because yes, I was enjoying Bee and Nick’s relationship, their simmering sexual tension and their growing feelings for one another, but I also appreciated the insights into the different ways that a life can be lived.

There’s much in this book about loneliness, and isolation and it touches on other important things such as mental health, children and whether to have them, the struggle to have children and also just how hard it is to be a parent. There’s also some wonderful depictions of friendship particularly between Bee and her best friend and I do love a book which examines female friendship which does it as well as this.

I found this to be a really enjoyable read with much to like; Bee and Nick’s chemistry is off the charts, it is a very clever narrative structure, really well plotted and quite fun to read. I did find some of the e-mail messages a bit wearing towards the end and it could have maybe done with an edit – it dragged a bit in the middle, but this didn’t detract from my enjoyment. It’s a super book which really kept me turning the pages, and by the end I felt that Nick and Bee were my friends. I really missed them and that to me is always the sign of a good book.

I absolutely loved this book; it was such a wonderful read. I loved the characters Nick and Bee. This is the first book I have read by Sarah Lotz, and I thoroughly recommend it.
Thanks to Netgalley and Harper Collins UK for giving me an ARC.

This book is brilliant, it is fresh, it is new, it is moving and beautiful. It is definitely going to be one of the most talk about books of the year and it really deserves all of the high praise.

I really don't want to spoil this book but I just wanted to rave about its brilliance. I was utterly transported and I fell in love with the characters of Nick and Bea.

Definitely a love story with a difference, reminding me of Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveller's Wife and Keith Stuart's The Frequency of us. I was utterly hooked and went on an emotional roller-coaster through the narrative. It feels to me like this could make a brilliant Richard Curtis film. I would definitely recommend.

This is a bit of a tough book to review without giving away any spoilers but here we go.

This is a love story. Bee and Nick meet when Nick accidentally sends Bee a ranty, abusive email that was intended for a client. Instead, it finds its way to Bee and an email exchange ensues. They click and eventually, decide to meet. And that’s where their problems start and where my description ends for fear of revealing any more.

The story is told in turn through their email exchange and each of their POVs. We get to know each of them, how they feel about the other, and about heir individual lives and circumstances. We see how they struggle to overcome the obstacles put on their path and the lengths they’ll go to to try and be together….even if only sort of.

I whizzed through this book. It’s easy to read and I desperately wanted to know how things would turn out. I thought I knew how it would go, but the author got me with a stinger at the end. Nice work Ms Lotz! You got me all emotional!

There’s been a lot of pre-release buzz around this and it’s easy to see why. This is a great book and I loved it.

I'm normally not too keen on romantic comedy books but chose this because of the author and I'm so pleased that I did. It had me grinning and tearful , a real rollercoaster of emotions. I so wanted it to work out and have a blissfully happy ending .... Rarely do I feel so emotionally involved in the characters as much as this but just couldn't help myself. This has to be one of 2022s books of the year. My friends are just so tired of me telling them how good it is.

Loved, loved, loved this book!

Funny, perceptive, and completely brilliant I raced through it, not wanting to put it down
I loved the premise of the novel. I loved the twist. I adored the leading characters, they were likable, they felt so real and their interaction was entirely natural.

The blurb for this book says that it is not a love story. Do not be fooled, this is ABSOLUTELY a love story. But it isn't your run of the mill love story. Actually I would say that this is a love story or romance book for readers (like myself) who don't normally read a lot of that old lovey dovey stuff. It is such a clever, original story with wonderful characters and tons of laugh out loud moments. I have been a fan of Sarah Lotz's writing for several years and when I heard that she had written what is essentially a romantic comedy (albeit with a....twist) you could have knocked me down with a feather. This brilliant new book very different to the horror fiction Lotz has become famous for but it just goes to show what a talented writer she is.

I absolutely loved everything about 'Impossible' and cannot recommend it highly enough.

I haven't read a book with this kind of plot in a long time so I am happy I got to read it because it is a good book: characters enjoyable to read, a story that kept me engaged and a good ending.

I'm struggling to find the words to write this review as I can't quite decide what I feel about it.

It started off so well; I loved the banter in the emails between Nick and Bee and I loved it when I realised that something wasn't quite right.

While I enjoyed reading it, I had a few too many eye-rolling moments and a few too many not-able-to-suspend-my-belief-moments.

I would rate this 3.5 stars. I enjoyed it but I didn't love it.

This book was brilliant, I loved it! It follows Nick and Bee who connect online when one day Nick sends an angry email to a client and it ends up in Bee’s inbox. The two strike up a friendship via email and I loved seeing their bond grow. I met my husband online and so books like this are irresistible to me! They share their lives and then one day decide to meet in real life but things don’t go quite as planned. I don’t want to say anymore and risk spoiling this book but I will say that it takes an unexpected direction and I was gripped! I read this book every spare second I had as I just wanted to know how it was all going to end. I definitely recommend this one!

I loved this book, it was an ‘easy read’ romance on the surface but had so much more to it in terms of wider plot and twists. It’s hard to review without spoilers so I will just say that I liked the characters and the details, and was constantly desperate to know what would happen next. I’d happily recommend this to friends.

I hadn't read the plot before nor the reviews and I didn't know the author, so I went in completely blind and didn't expect this book to hit me like this!
It all starts like a regular rom com, Nick sends an email by mistake to Bee and they start writing to each other. Ok so they "meet" online and at some point, they want to meet for real. Buuut there's a HUGE twist I wasn't expecting at all and it made the whole story so much more fascinating!
I loved the humour, banter and chemistry between Nick and Bee, but the story also touches more serious topics. It sometimes felt a little bit dragging but I kept reading because I wanted to know how it could end. I LOVED how the author managed to wrap up the end and I cried-laughed when I finished. That's definitely a story that will stay in my mind for a while and I want to read more books by Sarah Lotz.

Thank you to the author and publisher who provided me with an e-copy of this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Nick and Bee form an on-line friendship but when they arrange to meet, find they are in parallel universes separated by many years. Can they somehow get to meet up, or arrange for their future/past selves to meet? Fascinating reading, really making the reader wonder if they could make this possible.