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.
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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Grady Hendrix’s The Final Girl Support Group is a fast-paced, darkly witty thriller that pays homage to the “final girl” trope popularized by classic slasher films. The novel follows Lynette Tarkington, a reclusive survivor of a brutal massacre, who attends a support group for other final girls each loosely inspired by iconic horror movie heroines. When one of them goes missing, Lynette must confront her paranoia and fight for survival all over again.
Hendrix blends suspense, satire, and emotional depth to explore trauma, resilience, and the cost of survival. The result is a clever, self-aware horror novel that keeps readers guessing with twisty plot turns and nostalgic horror references.
Fans of horror and feminist thrillers will find this an engaging, bloody ride.
I’d give this 3.5 stars. This was an unexpected like of a book. I thought it was going to be a simple thriller but I was severely wrong. There were many twists and turns that come at you unexpectedly and just when you think you know what is going on, boom surprise plot twist. At sometimes I found it a bit chaotic, but that made it feel like we were in the main FMC POV. Overall, it was a decent read.
This book had me cracking up. Such a wry humor was weaved between lines filled with terrifying experiences. I laughed and I shuddered. The protagonist was everything - she failed spectacularly at pretty much everything and I'm not sure if that was intended to be humorous, or heart wrenching, or annoying, or all of the above but man oh man did it make me love her. I can't believe I slept so long on Grady Hendrix. Excuse me while I end this review to go pick up another book by him.
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