The Final Girl Support Group
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER VOTED GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD BEST HORROR NOVEL OF 2021 A Good Morning America Buzz Pick "The horror master...puts his unique spin on slasher movie tropes."-USA Today A can't-miss summer read, selected by The New York Times, Oprah Daily, Time, USA Today, The Philadelphia Inquirer, CNN, LitHub, BookRiot, Bustle, Popsugar and the New York Public Library In horror movies, the final girls are the ones left standing when the credits roll. They made it through the worst night of their lives...but what happens after? Like his bestselling novel The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, Grady Hendrix's latest is a fast-paced, frightening, and wickedly humorous thriller. From chain saws to summer camp slayers, The Final Girl Support Group pays tribute to and slyly subverts our most popular horror films--movies like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Scream. Lynnette Tarkington is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she's been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized--someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece. But the thing about final girls is that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.
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Readers say *The Final Girl Support Group* offers a fresh, fast-paced take on horror, blending classic slasher references with emotional depth. Many a...
I'm not generally into the slasher gore genre. This was clumsy in spots and unclear, it seems the author inserted events without logic, just to create red herrings. For a paranoid, extra careful person, Lynette certainly was careless about key things (books written under pen name that could be traced, etc.) Confused relationship with the guy who helped her.
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I LOVE this book. I cried at the end, after everything you go through with Lynette, maybe you’ll find yourself misty eyed too. It’s intense, brutal at times, and makes us consider the emotional trauma of the “final girl” and how those who survive choose to cope. I thought I guessed the ending but was fooled, twice! An amazing story.
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