SYNOPSIS
In horror movies, the final girl is the one who’s left standing when the credits roll. The one who fought back, defeated the killer, and avenged her friends. The one who emerges bloodied but victorious. But after the sirens fade and the audience moves on, what happens to her?
Lynnette Tarkington survived a massacre twenty-two years ago, and it has defined every day of her life since. And she's not alone. 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, putting their lives back together, piece by piece. That is until one of the women misses a meeting and Lynnette's worst fears are realized―someone knows about the group and is determined to take their lives apart again, piece by piece.
But the thing about these final girls is that they have each other now, and no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.
Title: The final girl support group
Author: Grady Hendrix
Publisher: Titan Books
Publication date: July 13, 2021
REVIEW
RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Final girl: the last and sole survivor of a horror movie.
Are you a fan of the slasher movies from the 80’s? Then The final girl support group is the book for you.
The final girl support group is a therapy group for all those women sole survivors of a horrible massacre, whose lives turned into books and movie deals, making them nationwide celebrities. More than 20 years after their original attacks one group member is killed and the others come under attack at the same time, so that seems like too much of a coincidence. Who wants to kill them all after so many years? All their “monsters” are dead or behind bars, aren’t they? But Lynnette, another of the final girls, isn’t ready to give up and sets herself to face their attacker to become the ultimate final girl.
This was a really fun read. Although I haven’t watched many of the movies referenced here, I could catch some of the nods to the genre, but I guess a true fan would be able to appreciate all the references and homages that flew over my head.
I had some trouble at first trying to remember all the characters and the different massacres they had lived (in fact, I’m not sure I could pair each final girl with their killer right now). I liked Lynnette and her no nonsense approach to everything. Some of her antics were a bit OTT but hey, a girl needs to survive!
Interspersed through the chapters there were extracts of police interviews, news articles, books excerpts, that told us about all the final girls’ stories (I don’t know how it will be done in the final digital version, but I left my eyes trying to read those on my Kindle).
The final confrontation was a killer scene and in true slasher fashion and I kept visualizing it on the big screen (the whole book would make a great movie).
Special mention to the chapter titles. So much fun!
Thanks to NetGalley and Titan Books for providing an eARC in exchange for an honest review.
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