You need to sign in or sign up before continuing.
Take a photo of a barcode or cover
3.7 AVERAGE
3.7 AVERAGE
One of the best thrillers I have read! Absolutely nothing about it was predictable! Up until the very end, I had no idea who the killer was and was so shocked to find out that it was the cop!
I did not see that ending coming. At all.
This was a good read. It was slow at times but in the good way. It was a slow burner book. The slow burn at the right moments to bring out the tension. This being my first crime/mystery/thriller book I can see why people enjoy this genre. Totally consuming.
This was a good read. It was slow at times but in the good way. It was a slow burner book. The slow burn at the right moments to bring out the tension. This being my first crime/mystery/thriller book I can see why people enjoy this genre. Totally consuming.
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Promising in thrilling the reader but not entirely kicking it. Final Girls is promising read. I like how the plot thickening surrounding the girls. It keeps me guessing but I do not like the writing style. Dragging and confusing in the middle.
Overall, so so.
Overall, so so.
Holy twists and turns batman!!
Now I read a lot of mystery/thriller books and most of the time I can work out who it is or what's happening either because I've guessed or process of elimination but this one, THIS ONE, had no idea, no idea whatsoever!!
The Final Girls are girls who have survived a massacre or the spree of a serial killer, there are only 3 of them at the moment, Lisa, who survived a sorority house massacre, Sam, who survived the rampage of the Sack Man and Quincy, who survived the Pine Cottage massacre.
When Lisa is found dead, Sam turns up at Quincys address to bond with her, asking her questions about what happened at Pine Cottage, Quincy can't remember and we follow her as the details become clear in her head. Here starts the story proper, we're thrown information, twists and turns at every opportunity, we don't know what's really happening or who to believe as we work our way to the shocking conclusion.
I really enjoyed this story, when I picked it up I could not put it down! Bella, my brothers dog, wasn't best pleased about it as it meant less cuddles and belly rubs for her but I needed to know what happened!
If the next book by this author is as good as this I will definitely be reading it. So very good.
My reviews may seem a little jumpy but that's how my brain works and I hope you get all the relevant info you need from them. :)
*Huge thanks to Riley Sager, Random House UK, Ebury Publishing and NetGalley for this copy which I chose to read and all opinions are my own*
Now I read a lot of mystery/thriller books and most of the time I can work out who it is or what's happening either because I've guessed or process of elimination but this one, THIS ONE, had no idea, no idea whatsoever!!
The Final Girls are girls who have survived a massacre or the spree of a serial killer, there are only 3 of them at the moment, Lisa, who survived a sorority house massacre, Sam, who survived the rampage of the Sack Man and Quincy, who survived the Pine Cottage massacre.
When Lisa is found dead, Sam turns up at Quincys address to bond with her, asking her questions about what happened at Pine Cottage, Quincy can't remember and we follow her as the details become clear in her head. Here starts the story proper, we're thrown information, twists and turns at every opportunity, we don't know what's really happening or who to believe as we work our way to the shocking conclusion.
I really enjoyed this story, when I picked it up I could not put it down! Bella, my brothers dog, wasn't best pleased about it as it meant less cuddles and belly rubs for her but I needed to know what happened!
If the next book by this author is as good as this I will definitely be reading it. So very good.
My reviews may seem a little jumpy but that's how my brain works and I hope you get all the relevant info you need from them. :)
*Huge thanks to Riley Sager, Random House UK, Ebury Publishing and NetGalley for this copy which I chose to read and all opinions are my own*
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I just finished the audiobook. I feel like Riley’s books are so much better as an audio. It was really good definitely not too gory more thriller, but it had a lot of not necessarily twists but you thought you knew the ending and you thought you had it all figured out and the end completely destroyed any thought you had like it wasn’t even on my radar so good.
Men should not be allowed to write women characters if they haven’t taken some feminist theory classes.
Sager’s women characters fall into one of two categories: Virgin or Whore/Bad Girl. Does this thriller deserve the level of critical analysis I’m about to give it? Absolutely not but if I had to suffer through this crap then I’m going to write about why it’s crap.
Quinn: Virgin. She’s innocent and sweet and beautifully covered in blood because she’s a perfect “Final Girl.” She spends the night of the murders thinking almost exclusively about having sex with her boyfriend and losing her virginity. She decides not to sleep with her boyfriend because it’s not a special enough experience and then turns around and has revenge sex with a rando freak who showed up at the cabin in the woods. This was one of the stupidest “twists” in this book. There is no character consistency and something about this being such a huge part of the book gave me an ick. It didn’t add to the story and I have some aggressive questions for Sager.
Sam: Whore/Bad Girl. Sam shows up dressed in black leather. She’s edgy, she commits crimes, she’s violent, she wears black nail polish, she drinks whiskey, she ~smokes~. The writing about Sam portrays her as immoral, bad, wreaking havoc. It rubbed me the wrong way.
Janelle: Whore/Bad Girl. Janelle is a party girl who likes to have sex (gasps)! She’s violently killed off almost immediately. Obviously.
On to the bad guy. The twist at the end when we find out who did it was out of left field and done almost exclusively for shock value. The character did a 180 with no build up. And this part especially just reeeeeeeked of misogyny. Maybe Sager thinks he’s being satirical and edgy when he writes a stalker, obsessive murder man who just couldn’t kill Quinn because she was #notlikeothergirls but there was no critical satire to be found in my opinion.
This book was gross and gave me an ick. People who are way more eloquent than me could probably break it down better but those people shouldn’t waste their time reading even two sentences of this book.
Sager’s women characters fall into one of two categories: Virgin or Whore/Bad Girl. Does this thriller deserve the level of critical analysis I’m about to give it? Absolutely not but if I had to suffer through this crap then I’m going to write about why it’s crap.
Quinn: Virgin. She’s innocent and sweet and beautifully covered in blood because she’s a perfect “Final Girl.” She spends the night of the murders thinking almost exclusively about having sex with her boyfriend and losing her virginity. She decides not to sleep with her boyfriend because it’s not a special enough experience and then turns around and has revenge sex with a rando freak who showed up at the cabin in the woods. This was one of the stupidest “twists” in this book. There is no character consistency and something about this being such a huge part of the book gave me an ick. It didn’t add to the story and I have some aggressive questions for Sager.
Sam: Whore/Bad Girl. Sam shows up dressed in black leather. She’s edgy, she commits crimes, she’s violent, she wears black nail polish, she drinks whiskey, she ~smokes~. The writing about Sam portrays her as immoral, bad, wreaking havoc. It rubbed me the wrong way.
Janelle: Whore/Bad Girl. Janelle is a party girl who likes to have sex (gasps)! She’s violently killed off almost immediately. Obviously.
On to the bad guy. The twist at the end when we find out who did it was out of left field and done almost exclusively for shock value. The character did a 180 with no build up. And this part especially just reeeeeeeked of misogyny. Maybe Sager thinks he’s being satirical and edgy when he writes a stalker, obsessive murder man who just couldn’t kill Quinn because she was #notlikeothergirls but there was no critical satire to be found in my opinion.
This book was gross and gave me an ick. People who are way more eloquent than me could probably break it down better but those people shouldn’t waste their time reading even two sentences of this book.
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Last minute plot-twist.
adventurous
challenging
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes