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Topping
From Below by Laura Reese
Ok
boys and girls, de puss has a real winner for you this time.
Do
you like a good murder mystery? How about mind games and S/M? Well
if you do, you’ll enjoy Topping From Below by Laura Reese.
This book has been out for a while, it was published in 1995, but
I can tell you this – if you have it on your shelf, read it and
if you don’t, BUY IT!
There
are two sisters, one dead and one alive. The surviving sister, Nora,
is obsessed with finding whoever it was who had killed her sister
and left her “..with duct tape across her mouth and wound around
her bare ankles and wrists”.
Looking
through Franny’s things, Nora comes across a diary on her computer
and is shocked at what she finds. . “I feel I’m about to take
a journey, something wonderful and exciting is happening to me.
I feel re-created, and it’s all due to Michael…” Things that
she allows “M” to do to her. Nora cannot believe that her shy little
sister could do these things without some evil influence. That “M”
had “…maneuvered himself into her life and then set about to
destroy her.” The author’s use of Franny’s “voice” through her
diary is a wonderful way of getting into the dead girl’s mind. Nora
decides that “I shall take the same journey, but it will have
a different ending, for M and for me” and she is correct as
she boldly enters the world that “M” took her sister to in her search
for Franny’s killer.
Now
I could go on, easily, until I told you the entire story but that
would only mess it up for you when you read this because if you’re
anything like me, you will have a hard time putting the book down.
It is as if the author uses her words as a mind game to get you
to stay with her characters and plot, to follow them through their
somewhat steamy and sordid relationship because that is exactly
what happens between Nora and “M”, they develop a relationship and
the lines begin to blur as Nora denies that she is doing anything
other than searching for her sister’s killer. She goes to the edge
for revenge. Can she keep from falling over that edge forever? Read
it and find out for yourself!
Topping
From Below