Ryan Pfeiffer’s Reviews > The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek > Status Update

Was reading this on the bus as usual so I ended up having to stop mid-way through the climactic chapter.

Some nasty Robert Kirkman shit going on in this last chapter. Messed up. Interesting to see their plan coming together. Made me picture Rhett and Link having to figure out a way to write themselves out of the situation they made. Doesn't feel like it all flows as effortlessly in that sense I guess, but that's how stories are sometimes.

Janine is gonna have a hell of a time trying to put this documentary together if they have to edit around all the times they suddenly stop recording. Trust me, I've recorded stuff like this before and it's always a pain in the ass trying to come up with some sort of framing device after the fact. But I guess that's how documentaries are. Still, if you're not recording you have nothing.

I get that we're supposed to be somewhat sympathetic to Whitewood now but their backstory doesn't explain why they literally talk and present themselves like a diabolical mastermind.

How'd J not get caught anyway?

Wow. Okay. Didn't know Rhett and Link had this in 'em.

They said the F word in this last chapter.

Um ok interesting

I'm not worried, I don't think this book would get much more bleak than it already is. I'm over halfway through, surely it's reached peak bleak by now.

Perhaps it's getting a little too dark. Like it's already been pretty bleak up to this point but it's really getting to be a bit much here. Like cartoonishly evil but painfully humanly cruel. It's a weird choice. I'm interested to see where it's going, though.