![]() But it’s hard not to feel whipsawed by the contrived plot turns Anastasia invents to keep these three affairs moving, and the app’s additions are largely ephemeral. ![]() Credit Anastasia for cannily merging street lit, Fifty Shades–style erotic romance and a soft-focus sentiment fit for a Thomas Kinkade painting. ![]() The novel turns on three romances, each lacquered in hokum: Livia, a college student, falls for Blake, a homeless man who plays a cardboard piano and counts the smiles she gives him on the train platform in the titular New York city Livia’s bad-girl sister, Kyle, falls for Cole, a priest-in-training and Beckett, a coldblooded criminal, falls for Eve, a kind of sexpot mercenary. Whatever is prompting people to transform this tale into body art, it’s not the high-quality prose and plot. ![]() This app can be read as a kind of extended thank-you note to those readers: Anastasia offers extra chapters, brief commentaries on particular sentences when clicked (“This is one of my favorite lines”) and a feature on people who’ve had tattoos done of the novel’s logo, a merger of a dagger, cross and treble clef. Published in 2011, Poughkeepsie garnered a cult following among readers who were seduced by Anastasia’s tale of three foster brothers and the women who love them. ![]() An indie epic of sex, crime and romance is bolstered-though not exactly improved-by photos, videos, quizzes and a recipe. ![]()
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