Houdini Heart by Ki Longfellow6/19/2023 ![]() With extraordinary subtlety and skill, Longfellow slowly spins an inauspicious web, pulling readers in until they’re no longer sure of what is real or imagined. Woven together as a series of flashbacks, internal monologues, and excerpts from the central character’s best-known book, “The Windigo’s Daughter*”, Houdini Heart slowly and meticulously reveals the narrator’s troubled past, and the terrifying events leading up to her arrival at the River House. Ki Longfellow’s suspenseful, dark, and eerie novel is a compellingly written examination of the intense psychological unraveling of a lone, unnamed protagonist. ![]() ![]() Within the walls of the River House the narrator sets out to complete a task, her final novel, one to best her others, but soon finds there are forces at work inside the hotel (or, perhaps trapped inside her own tormented mind) that have other plans for her… There, she finds shelter in the River House, a once magnificent hotel that has been turned into a series of dilapidated apartments and shops. Houdini Heart is the harrowing tale of an anonymous narrator, driven by a horrendous ordeal to flee her glamorous life in Malibu for a small town in Vermont where she briefly stayed with her mother as a child. ![]() Purchased for Nook Tablet from Barnes and Noble. ![]()
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