The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
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Great book
Wish this to become a movie.
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Another hit from Grady
"All our monsters are the same monster, the male monster... Our monsters are the night visitors, the child stealers, the boo-baggers, the baby guzzlers. They are the men who eat children. It is the oldest and only story, our attempt to imitate the two divine acts of God: creation and destruction. Birth and death. Women get birth, so men must settle for death. And they've become experts on the subject." (p237) This was my second Grady Hendrix book and it did not disappoint! The main character, Lynette, meets monthly with a group of other final girls, to process the trauma from their violent pasts. These women have one thing in common: they were all sole survivors of violent mass murders during their teens. Now they have become targets again and Lynnette spends the rest of the book on the run trying to get to the bottom of the conspiracy targeting them, while also attempting to protect her friends from unknown threats. This one was packed with action, gore, and suspense. It was the perfect horror read for spooky season. It kept me up late turning pages at breakneck speed. It's a Grady Hendrix novel, so of course it has its silly moments as well. It's definitely a bit of a satire on the final girls trope, poking fun at some of the slasher cliches. But in a "laugh with", not "laugh at" kind of way. Definitely recommend this one to all horror fans and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
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Great plot but...
It was good but not my favorite book on the shelf..some parts were boring and some parts were good.
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It was okay
I really enjoyed the plot and it reminded me of many horror movies growing up in the 90's! But I feel like the ending was disappointing, a huge build up for pages and pages but then... meh. I really like this author and will continue to read his books. But this one was just... eh.
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Interesting
Being a fan of horror movies, I thought the story sounded really good. Some of the characters were interesting. I'll admit the pacing in the middle was a bit slow but I still breezed through the chapters. This was quite the weird, creepy and suspenseful read.
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Good psychological suspense
Full disclosure-I received this book as a Goodreads giveaway. Many of the reviews talked about humor - I have to say I didn't get it, but that may say more about me than the book. Never a fan of slasher movies, this was still a relatable and well written novel capitalizing on everything about the genre that has become part of the popular culture. One of the most psychologically unstable main characters ever, Lynette still manages to rise above her real trauma to emerge as the true heroine of the book. Suspense is maintained well throughout the novel and the ending is as neat as it is surprising. If you like psychological thrillers, you'll enjoy this one.
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I Loved This Book!
I loved this book! The Final Girls Support Group had my attention immediately and I didn’t want to put it down! I constantly felt the need to know what was going to happen next. This was my second book written by Grady Hendrix and it won’t be my last. This was a great, fast paced and well written thriller/horror and just what I needed to pull me out of a reading slump.
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A lot of potential
I’m a big horror movie fan so the satirization of slasher tropes in this book is great. I also liked that all the characters are flawed and dealing with their respective traumas in their own way. But some of the dialogue was a bit stale and some of the ‘twists’ were semi-predictable for me. I would love to see this book as part of an ongoing series that focuses on the other girls mentioned where each book focuses on a different final girl. My biggest complaint though was that Heather’s ‘monster’ doesn’t get the full background treatment all the others got, which is a shame because the Dream King sounds like an extremely interesting ‘monster’. There was also some Heather-related stuff near the end that came off as too Deus ex machina for me. If there’s ever a sequel I hope it’s related to Heather and the Dream King
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