Houdini Heart by Ki Longfellow My rating: 3 of 5 stars This was a fun piece of fiction + meta fiction, and stories-within-stories, but overall, it did not thrill me. Also, unlike many of the works which the narrator discusses, and which the author evokes within the book, it did not scare me. I could see every nail as the author hammered it into the board, and much of it felt contrived and overworked. I felt outside the story, consistently, except when the narrator spoke of her family and her life prior to her tenancy at River House. The main story is about a novelist and screenwriter whose name we never learn, who returns to the town of her childhood and takes…
