The Final Girl Support Group

Hardcover, 339 pages

English language

Published July 13, 2021 by Berkley Books.

ISBN:
978-0-593-43704-9
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4 stars (29 reviews)

A fast-paced, thrilling horror novel that follows a group of heroines to die for, from the brilliant New York Times bestselling author of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires.

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 is a real-life final girl who 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 actual 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 …

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TL;DR The best horror crossover?

4 stars

Content warning Plot and Character deaths

Review of 'The Final Girl Support Group' on 'Goodreads'

1 star

I guess there’s a theme. The title alone indicates as much. Hendrix does try to engage with the critical theory he borrowed, but I’m not convinced he understood it. The plot is as ridiculous as the slasher flicks the book pays homage to throughout so if you’re into that sort of thing, I guess it’s fine, but those movies aren’t known for their plot really are they? So no score there either. I guess if you’ve never bothered to look into critical theory, it’s not a bad introduction. That’s the only even remotely good thing I have to say about it.

Review of 'The Final Girl Support Group' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Absolutely stunning. Every book Hendrix writes takes out a chunk of my heart. He improves tremendously every book, and I deeply enjoy watching his career. This book is probably his most complex, but it's also his most complete. He's trying to address multiple different issues, from horror movies to how we treat women in society to true crime fanaticism to incels, and he weaves it all together in a strange universe of his own making. The world the girls live in is effortless and easy to imagine, real and wild, our own world writ large. If any book of Henrix's deserves a sequel (in 3D), it's this one.

Review of 'The Final Girl Support Group' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

A group of 6 "Final Girls" meet once a month for a group therapy session that seems more like a place to argue and insult each other than to recover from past trauma. Now someone is out to kill them all... I guess because that is what's supposed to happen, the slashers in horror movies keep coming back no matter how many times you manage to kill them and survive. But who is it? Which monster has found out about the group? Who is coming to kill them after all this time? Or maybe it's more than one person. What if it's several all working together? Now it's up to Lynette to find out who is after them before there is no one left to save. They never considered Lynette to be a true Final Girl because she didn't have to kill her attacker to survive. Maybe this time she …

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