Mitchell, Brian John – Lost Kisses #7

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Lost Kisses #7

In case you can’t read the caption, it says “Keys, Phones and Barcodes: What do these things have to do with each other?”  It takes a while to get there, but he pulls it all together in the end.  This is the story of Brian finding some house keys from an old girlfriend, and it happens to be the old girlfriend who he actually bought a house with years ago.  She still owes him $5000, he has no interest in ever seeing her again and spends the issue trying to figure out what to do with them.  The trouble is that the first half of the book is all over the place and I didn’t start piecing this story together until the start of the second half.  He goes from a ringing phone right to a panel about the odd names of grocery stores in other states to questions about how the store located him in the first place.  Reading it over again, I got what he was going for: the grocery store called him because of the bar code on the keyring, but it was awkwardly put together.  He saves things in a big way with the second half though, because what do you do in that situation?  He goes through all the pros and cons and eventually comes to a decision.  Without ruining anything, it turns out he’s a nicer guy than I am.  Brian sent a small pile of minis again this time around, so more tiny fun will be had in the near future.  As for this one, I recommend it to anyone who has ever fantasized about revenge of an ex.  Which is probably everybody…