Monday, September 1, 2025

The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek by Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal

 

Based on my experience, including this novel, the odds of a podcaster writing a novel I'll enjoy reading are about zero. When the instigating event, clearly intended to be zany, sucked my interest right out of me, I stopped. I didn't even make it fifty pages.

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