Lily swears she’ll never end up in another abusive home, but when Ryle starts to show all the same warning signs that her mother ignored, Lily learns just how hard it is to say goodbye. The provocative opening takes a dark turn when Lily receives a warning about Ryle’s intentions from his sister, who becomes Lily’s employee and close friend.
They meet on a rooftop in Boston on the night Ryle loses a patient and Lily attends her abusive father’s funeral. Hoover’s ( November 9, 2015, etc.) latest tackles the difficult subject of domestic violence with romantic tenderness and emotional heft.Īt first glance, the couple is edgy but cute: Lily Bloom runs a flower shop for people who hate flowers Ryle Kincaid is a surgeon who says he never wants to get married or have kids. Poe’s psychological masterpiece is perfectly matched with just enough digital interactivity to chill readers anew. Isolating it bit by bit while maintaining a linear, if wildly undulating flow adroitly capitalizes on the rising tension. Poe’s eerily elegiac prose is faithfully rendered. Additionally, following the crooked etchings-which vary in font as well as physical orientation-up, down, over and around conjures an unmistakable feeling of being alone in the dark with an unwelcome someone reading over your shoulder. Slowly and even painstakingly, tracing the story in this most tactile way brilliantly mirrors the disjointed, zigzagging inner workings of the protagonist’s tortured mind while also creating an uncomfortable intimacy with the unnamed antihero. Snatches of Poe’s first-person narration are found scrawled on a textured background that resembles a pitted wall they must be manipulated, twisted and turned in order to discover the next outburst of literary lunacy. But this marvelously restrained iPad app might just be the ultimate platform for conveying the claustrophobic creepiness inherent in Poe’s gothic tale of a killer betrayed by his own insanity.
It’s been 170 years since Poe’s chilling first-person narrative was first published in an ill-fated Boston-based magazine called The Pioneer. Poe’s classic short story of murder and madness is here subtly but effectively repurposed to haunt the dreams of a whole new generation of readers.
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