Status Updates From Kafes

Just read Chapter Forty-Three. Back in the past, Malorie and Olympia's labor is disrupted by Gary's return. He's broken the windows and unlocked the doors, allowing creatures to drive the housemates to suicide, except for Malorie and the babies. After Gary leaves, a man named Rick calls to give Malorie directions to a safe haven. Malorie spends the next four years living alone with the children. Holy shit!

These are the most nothing burger characters smh and, gang, I hate it when I man tries to write a pregnant woman/woman with young kids when he clearly hasn’t thought about what the entails for more than 10 minutes in his life. Like, no one thinks like that???? And also you stripped her of all personality other than mother. It’s giving Guillermo Del Toro’s women in Frankenstein, I fear. But somehow worse

This book is so painfully written by a man

Just read Chapter Forty-One. Back in the present, the birds in the trees above Malorie and the children see something in the river (possibly what's been following them) and brutally kill each other. At that moment, they come to the fork in the river and hear a voicemail from Tom playing on a speaker. But the thing finally catches up to the boat. Malorie now has to open her eyes. Uh oh!

Plot twist shook me