The Gryphon: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin and Sabine Is Rediscovered Book

So this is the 1st book of the second trilogy... I really enjoyed it, I can't believe I actually own a copy autographed by the creative genius himself.

I have to say that I like the mystery, but I'm not really into symbols or mythology so that part of the book is kind of lost on me. I think that would be better left to another one of our favourite fictional characters: Robert Langdon. (ha ha)

My only complaint is that I really can't figure out if Sabine is evil or these people are all crazy or something. I mean, (spoiler alert), in the very first book I was totally creeped out by Sabine, especially at the ending because of the lack of stamps/postage/address... all that. And Griffin just seems so vulnerable. I came around on Sabine in the second two books, but by the beginning of the Gryphon/end of the Golden Mean, she totally creeps me out again with the postcard she sends to Matthew. Where is Griffin?? I keep thinking either she is a mass murderer, or that this really is a mystical symbolic book and she and Griffin really have become the same person. I am worried for Griffin because if this isn't some big symbology story, he "reappears" in the middle of the Gryphon, but his handwriting is Sabine's..... And by the end of the book I'm back on the original side of the fence with Sabine totally creeping me out again. Maybe the whole plot with Frolotti was just so she could murder Griffin?? She does have a temper (aka "foolish man. you cannot turn me into a phantom just because you are frightened.")

My final bet really is that Griffin is crazy and these people are all an invention of his mind.

I guess I shall just have to get the 2nd two books of the 2nd trilogy and figure it all out. (But knowing Nick Bantock, there won't really be an ending to all this.)