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Mystery/Thriller Monday

Review - Dead Ringer, by Kate Kessler

Caring about someone doesn’t end with letting them chase their dreams, kid. It’s hard and awful, and sometimes it breaks your heart, but if you can’t be there for the bad, you don’t deserve the good.

Fuck it. She tried very hard during the course of her adult life to not act impulsively. Doing so in the past had always come back to bite her on the ass. But, every once in a while, she gave in. She wanted a new pair of boots but also groceries? Fuck it. She got the boots and ate peanut butter for a few days. Her feet looked fabulous, and she liked peanut butter, so it wasn't that much of a trial. She wanted desert but her scale said no? Fuck it. She upped her cardio for the next few days. She was all about the gratification and she knew it. Not like she was hurting anyone. At least not anyone other than herself.

Words had power, and those ones hit with the force of an eighteen-wheeler.

I like the part of you that's wrong. Always have. We're single because no one in their right goddamned minds would have either of us.

Perspective sometimes cast an unflattering shadow.

If you don't take care of the people you love, no one else will.