Kaz’s Reviews > The Mighty Red > Status Update

“One of the best things about selling old books was going through them before they went onto the shelves. She tried not to buy marked-up or underlined books, but there were other ways books were personalized. People kept or left things in books—quotes, clippings, often about the author, letters that arrived while they were reading the book, bills they didn’t want to pay, foil gum wrappers, bookmarks from….

And so love dies, Crystal thought, pulled down to earth by the tedious weight of a partner’s habits.

Or at least love hibernates. Because to tell the truth, Crystal was finding that she still had some feelings for Martin, even when surrounded in her own kitchen by police.