It feels like a mixture of Stranger Things, Stephen King's stories, and Steven Spielberg's films - in the best possible way. The mystery, though taking a bit of time to be set up, is suitably creepy and mysterious. There's a really solid mystery at the heart of the novel, surrounded by some genuinely compelling and relatable characters who the reader quickly comes to care for. This is a very promising debut novel from Rhett and Link. There are a lot of really good ideas and characters scattered throughout the book, but it's all a bit hampered by too-few pages and uneven pacing. And I don't really mean that as an insult, but an author's first novel is often very imperfect and that's exactly what The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek is - imperfect. Well, having read The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek definitely feels like a first novel. But, with its connection to these YouTubers, I eagerly awaited the publication of the book, unsure of exactly what to expect.

Were it not to have been written by them, it likely would have never made its way onto my radar. My love of Rhett and Link is what led me to their first novel, The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek.

Their content is so wholesome and enjoyable - and they grew up fairly close to where I live - so it's hard for me not to enjoy their stuff. I've been a fan of Rhett and Link's for a while now. “It’s scary, it’s fun, and it’s one hell of a carnival ride.” - Kirkus Reviews Read more Read this book.” -Rachel Bloom, co-creator of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend That puts Rhett and Link in the top 1% of smart people in the world. “Most people don’t read books, let alone write them. The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek, Will It Awesome Book? yeah!” -Kurt Sutter, creator of Sons of Anarchy You don’t have to be a GMM fan to realize. “ The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek is like your best friend from high school-kind of weird and a little twisted, but no matter how much trouble they caused, they always made you laugh. Praise for The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek What they find will leave them battling an evil beyond their wildest imaginations-one that will shake Bleak Creek to its core. But when the shoot for their low-budget horror masterpiece, PolterDog, goes horribly awry-and their best friend, Alicia Boykins, is sent to Whitewood as punishment-Rex and Leif are forced to question everything they know about their unassuming hometown and its cherished school for delinquents.Įager to rescue their friend, Rex and Leif pair up with recent NYU film school graduate Janine Blitstein to begin piecing together the unsettling truth of the school and its mysterious founder, Wayne Whitewood. Beneath the town’s cheerful façade, however, Bleak Creek teens live in constant fear of being sent to the Whitewood School, a local reformatory with a history of putting unruly youths back on the straight and narrow-a record so impeccable that almost everyone is willing to ignore the suspicious deaths that have occurred there over the past decade.Īt first, high school freshmen Rex McClendon and Leif Nelson believe what they’ve been told: that the students’ strange demises were all just tragic accidents, the unfortunate consequence of succumbing to vices like Marlboro Lights and Nirvana. It’s 1992 in Bleak Creek, North Carolina-a sleepy little place with all the trappings of an ordinary Southern town: two Baptist churches, friendly smiles coupled with silent judgments, and an unquenchable appetite for pork products. Chilling, hilarious, and suspenseful-I loved it!”-Felicia Dayįrom the authors of Rhett & Link's Book of Mythicality and creators of Good Mythical Morning .

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