Erotic Paranormal Novel “Go Ask the Dead” by Frank Tropea Leaves Book Reviewers Astounded

“Go Ask the Dead” (ReadersMagnet; 2019) by Frank Tropea is a novel that, according to Kirkus Reviews, “offers a family drama with supernatural elements.” The book has been described as “a paranormal, erotic novel” by BlueInk Review and a “gender-bending thriller” by Foreword Reviews.
 
In “Go Ask the Dead,” a 15-year-old Amanda “Mandy” Mannon learns about her family’s powerful occult history. Amanda is a beautiful young girl with psychic abilities - and an insatiable appetite for sex, which she inherits from her promiscuous mother, Aurelia. When Aurelia goes missing for weeks, she allows her handsome stepfather, Ted, to seduce her.
 
Amanda learns about Aurelia’s death at the hands of Ted from her ancestress, Lily, who appears to her as a ghost. Lily, a spirit guide, informs Amanda that she is able to “see” the dead. Amanda avenges her mother by killing her stepfather.
 
Amanda is then sent to live with her religious great-aunt, Lavinia, who frowns on the occult. She unearths more of her family’s occult history and conjures the ghost of a young Confederate soldier, William, who was killed at Gettysburg. Like her Aunt Eliza who was sexually obsessed with ghosts, Amanda becomes involved with William. She also gets into a relationship with a human, Craig. What unfolds next is a provocative - and disturbing - narrative.
 
“Go Ask the Dead” becomes a subject of review by book reviewers for its unusual premise and storyline. “The idea of a teenage girl with witchlike powers who interacts with an array of ghosts that includes a rebel soldier is an inventive premise for a novel,” said Kirkus Reviews. “Tropea delivers rich and tantalizing supernatural and historical details.”
 
Foreword Reviews focuses on the aspects that make “Go Ask the Dead” “gender-bending”: the audience’s sense of Amanda; the suspension of belief that goes with the narrative; and dark humor. The review also touches on the novel’s treatment of the subject of race and racism.
 
Order today Frank Tropea’s “Go Ask the Dead” on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and the author’s website https://www.tropeasdarkdreams.com.
 
 
Go Ask the Dead
Author | Frank Tropea
Publisher | ReadersMagnet
Published date | June 4, 2019
Paperback price | $10.70
 
About the Author
 
Frank Tropea was born to a middle-class Italian family in Brockton, MA in 1949. After graduating from high school in 1967, he went into the Navy. He always loved reading and literature. Using the GI Bill, he went to college and took up a BA in Literature and Psychology. After being laid off from his job and going through some difficult years in life, he was hired by a courthouse. He also received an MA in Literature and Psychology from Harvard. He later joined Mensa and then Intertel. Frank always loved writing poetry and later books. He is an avid reader of the paranormal genre. His beliefs and probing of the paranormal enabled him to write “Go Ask the Dead.”

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