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 decades 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 misses a meeting and Lynnette's worst fears are realised -- 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 that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife...they will never, ever give up. 'The Final Girl Support Group sizzles with action, originality, and a gleaming concept sharp as a scalpel.' -- Charlaine Harris, #1 New York Times bestselling author 'Pray for morning, wish for speed, and be as quiet as you can, it doesn't matter--Grady Hendrix's The Final Girl Support Group already knows where you live and breathe.' -- Stephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians 'The Final Girl Support Group is funny, scary, and a roaring good time. Grady Hendrix puts his own spin on final girls and I loved it.' -- Samantha Downing, USA Today bestselling author of My Lovely Wife 'Take slasher movie adoration, critique, and satire, mix with compelling, flawed characters and neck-breaking plot twists, and drop it all into an industrial blender with large blades. Voilà, you now have Grady's maniacally clever and compulsively readable The Final Girl Support Group.' -- Paul Tremblay, national bestselling author of Survivor Song 'The Final Girl Support Group is a deft examination of how our culture's obsession with misogynistic violence destroys the lives of women and how those women are able to keep fighting and living after unthinkable trauma. The beating heart of this book is empathy and it's set into a lightning-paced, vicious thriller. Reading it was a catharsis. Absolutely unmissable. Horror fans...you've never read a slasher like this.' -- Mallory O'Meara, national bestselling author of The Lady from the Black Lagoon 'With The Final Girl Support Group Grady Hendrix transforms a horror trope into something bloody original. An incisive examination of society's obsession with violence against women that simultaneously honors and roasts the slasher genre with equal prowess. Wildly entertaining and clever as hell.' -- Rachel Harrison, author of The Return '....a wonderfully suspenseful and darkly comic novel that cleverly subverts popular culture. Horror fans will be wowed. -- Publisher's Weekly
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The Final Girl Support Group
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 decades 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 misses a meeting and Lynnette's worst fears are realised -- 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 that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife...they will never, ever give up. 'The Final Girl Support Group sizzles with action, originality, and a gleaming concept sharp as a scalpel.' -- Charlaine Harris, #1 New York Times bestselling author 'Pray for morning, wish for speed, and be as quiet as you can, it doesn't matter--Grady Hendrix's The Final Girl Support Group already knows where you live and breathe.' -- Stephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians 'The Final Girl Support Group is funny, scary, and a roaring good time. Grady Hendrix puts his own spin on final girls and I loved it.' -- Samantha Downing, USA Today bestselling author of My Lovely Wife 'Take slasher movie adoration, critique, and satire, mix with compelling, flawed characters and neck-breaking plot twists, and drop it all into an industrial blender with large blades. Voilà, you now have Grady's maniacally clever and compulsively readable The Final Girl Support Group.' -- Paul Tremblay, national bestselling author of Survivor Song 'The Final Girl Support Group is a deft examination of how our culture's obsession with misogynistic violence destroys the lives of women and how those women are able to keep fighting and living after unthinkable trauma. The beating heart of this book is empathy and it's set into a lightning-paced, vicious thriller. Reading it was a catharsis. Absolutely unmissable. Horror fans...you've never read a slasher like this.' -- Mallory O'Meara, national bestselling author of The Lady from the Black Lagoon 'With The Final Girl Support Group Grady Hendrix transforms a horror trope into something bloody original. An incisive examination of society's obsession with violence against women that simultaneously honors and roasts the slasher genre with equal prowess. Wildly entertaining and clever as hell.' -- Rachel Harrison, author of The Return '....a wonderfully suspenseful and darkly comic novel that cleverly subverts popular culture. Horror fans will be wowed. -- Publisher's Weekly
Popular Reviews(6)
Reviewed by Настя4.5*
Reviewed by Rojda4.25 stars. A good slasher with some funny and some sad parts. 👌🏼
Reviewed by VickyWhat the actual fuck
Reviewed by StephanQuick and entertaining...
Reviewed by demonI would’ve loved to put a better note, really. I’m sad I didn’t like this book as much as I thought I would but here we go. At first I really liked the writing style and the plot, it was really interesting to follow Lynnette’s thoughts and to discover the different characters from her point of view only, but then it started to be weird and I had difficulties to follow every stories of every characters. I was lost between all the names and all the stories. But that didn’t stop me from reading the book anyway. The story was still really interesting and I wanted to know the end. At the same time I found it really interesting to have only Lynnette’s thoughts because of the atmosphere it created. I really felt her pain, her thoughts, I really tried to understand her and I really was invested in what was happening. I can’t say I always understood nor supported her and her choices but I did understand the difficulty behind every situation and choice. I can’t relate to her nor to the other final girls as I never experienced what they experienced so I can’t even say if their reactions and decisions were legit but I think the intentions of the author were still interesting and it opened a window on the women who are final girls in real life. We need representation. Well, what I didn’t like. The book was really long for me. It took me too much time even tho the book hasn’t that much pages. I think the whole thing with Stephanie was too long. Some passages were very long for me to read, maybe they were all important but they still didn’t caught my attention. I kept reading because I wanted to know what happens at the end (yes, I was clueless) but I was reading some scenes only to finish the book and not because I actually liked them. And man I was so sad for Skye. I had hope for him, really. I really liked him and I felt heartbroken after the end please I think the whole story of Chrissy was so rushed. I would’ve liked to know more about her and her story to understand her better and not seeing her being kind of a villain nobody understood. I hated each part with Garrett P. I found them interesting and disgusting at the same time. Garrett was an awful and disgusting character and I didn’t like how he used and played with Lynnette when she still was a teenager while he was a grown up man. I found their relationship really inappropriate and kinda toxic. Overall it still was a good book. I just think some stories where too long and some weren’t enough. I gave 4 stars because I think the book is still pretty good and the characters were really interesting!! I really liked reading about those characters. Trigger warning: Graphic: Medical content, Violence, Body horror, Alcohol, Gore, Alcoholism, Murder, Blood, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Death, Child death, Addiction Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Pedophilia, Gaslighting