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The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix

89 reviews

in_dire_read's review against another edition

funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Violence

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, and Suicidal thoughts

pkc's review

dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Part slasher, part study in trauma, this book is as empowering and emotional as it is grisly! I really didn’t like the protagonist for the first 100 odd pages, but she grew into her skin. I don’t think it had the balance of horror and reality that Hendrix’s other books that I’ve read had, but I enjoyed it all the same. I’d have scored higher if not for the slower start.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Body horror, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, and Medical trauma

leeghlee's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Murder, Confinement, Violence, and Cancer

Moderate: Death of parent, Excrement, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Car accident, Chronic illness, Cursing, Terminal illness, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Sexual content, Stalking, and Suicide

Minor: Drug use, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Gaslighting, Ableism, Addiction, Body horror, Drug abuse, and Mass/school shootings

emily_koopmann's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual violence, Drug use, and Murder

Moderate: Gun violence

lilawsahar's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

The characters were so annoying. I hate them all equally. Why were all their personalities pretty much the same? 

The subject was so interesting but the plot of the book was so boring. I liked that the book was about final girls, but I didn’t like how it was pretty much like any other thriller. It felt so basic for such an unique idea. 

I could not follow the action scenes at all. I just kept jumped over fighting scenes because I had no idea what was going on. His descriptions were weird and hard to follow and his transitions were terrible. I hated the mixed media between chapters too. It didn’t really add to the story. 

It felt like a man wrote a book trying to relate to women and missed the mark completely. Women are scared of men. That’s the only thing he got right lol. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Death, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Car accident, Cursing, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Stalking, and Violence

Minor: Drug abuse, Kidnapping, and Drug use

hmetwade's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Alcoholism, Blood, Confinement, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, and Violence

Minor: Cancer, Drug use, Kidnapping, Cursing, Terminal illness, and Vomit

hannahspence's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Child death, Death of parent, and Violence

Minor: Drug use and Cannibalism

uhhlexiconic's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

With a severe imbalance in the group portion of the title, the Final Girl Support Group gives lip service to horror but otherwise presents another trope: the unreliable "Girl" narrator

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Drug use, Child death, Addiction, Cancer, Car accident, Death, and Forced institutionalization

tiernanhunter's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Cannibalism, Death, Drug abuse, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Car accident, Child death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Classism, Confinement, Cursing, Death of parent, Drug use, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Mental illness, Sexism, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, and Violence

toastrats's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I think the social commentary about creation vs destruction, needing death to have meaning, being uncomfortable with a slow death, the gendered nature of violence, etc... was maybe more interesting than the plot of the book? That said, it is still a good read! Some of the metaphors were a little heavy handed (the plant), but they still resonate. 

Do read it keeping in mind that Hendrix often writes characters in opposition to the protagonist very unsympathetic because that's how the protagonist views them. Who is standing in the way of Lynette? Lynette is. Her trauma (in the form of group) is. The characters seem insufferable for a reason. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gun violence, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Drug use, Cancer, Addiction, and Drug abuse