Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Final Girls by Riley Sager

60 reviews

seawarrior's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

While definitely a page turner, Final Girls was somewhat of a letdown for me. It probably doesn't help that I read Home Before Dark recently before this, where Sager's writing is much stronger in my opinion.

The main merit of this book is how easily it held my interest. I checked it out from the library planning to read it over several days, and ended up finishing it in a matter of hours. Unfortunately I felt that the twists in the plot were somewhat predictable, and I don't say that lightly, as I actively try not to predict the answer to mysteries as I'm reading them. This led to an anticlimatic end in my experience, made all the more unsatisfying by my mild investment in the characters. As much as I wanted to love these stubborn, surviving women, they felt a little too much like flat, paperdoll people to spark my investment or pathos. 

Though I have more harsh notes on this book than positive ones, I don't feel that it's altogether terrible and I don't regret reading it. The writing isn't excellent, but it's entertaining nonetheless and I would still recommend it to others looking for an engaging thriller to read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Death, Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Vomit, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Suicide attempt and Sexual harassment

Minor: Rape, Incest, Pedophilia, Police brutality, and Terminal illness

hannakutlu's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Stalking

parasolcrafter's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore and Blood

Minor: Death, Ableism, Vomit, Violence, Sexual content, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Forced institutionalization, Alcohol, and Drug use

laurenashton's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

Sick and twisted in the best way possible. Quincy trying to figure out her memory, peoples lies, and the haunting feeling of being a final girl. Truly a haunting but insightful read with flashbacks to the scene of the horrific mass murder and current times.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Suicide, Violence, and Vomit

bookishgoob's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

2.0

“I’m the moth that got careless with the flame. Now i’m engulfed” slow paced and utterly uninteresting in the first half, you follow a girl with no memory of what happened to her after being the only survivor of a massacre that left all of her friends dead. she was the only survivor. she was a “final girl” a term used when talking about horror movies most of the time to describe the girl at the end of a movie that is the only survivor of what happened. the first 50% of this book left me with the feeling of wanting to just not finish at all but I don’t like to DNF books unless it’s so terrible or uninteresting so i pushed through and finished it. the twists and turns were surprising, but only to an extent. i called a few of them from a mile away, a few of them though were not so easy to spot. switching from the final girls perspective to a 3rd person account of what happened to her 10 years early was an interesting choice, just not very well executed in my opinion. not getting much on either end of the story made it dull and it felt slightly repetitive. all in all, i’m glad i finished it but i would not read it again and i don’t think i would really recommend it. unless you like slow paced stories that really feel like they have no direction in the beginning. i give this read a 2/5. it was an okay spooky season read. but if you have a choice between this title, or another thriller, i would vote that you get the other one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Abandonment, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, and Torture

readwithzoe_'s review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Suicide, Murder, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Vomit

alinwonderland's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Murder, Violence, and Stalking

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Sexual content, Grief, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Car accident, Cursing, Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Vomit, and Forced institutionalization

sylvestra's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Death, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexual content, and Vomit

melissaa_clarkk's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

This book is a hard read and definitely not one that should be done before bed but it is also a read that completely caught me off guard. You believe you know where the end is going, only to be completely wrong and shocked. There are definitely triggers within this book so read with caution 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, and Vomit

moon's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.75

wow, i'll admit i didn't see that plot twist coming at all. the writing is decent too and managed to capture my attention so much i finished the book in 2 days.

the not so great stuff: literally no diversity. characters were frustrating as hell, especially quincy.

i'm kinda mad that quincy still managed to escape any sort of accountability at the end. she really just sat by and let tina take the fall for her. i know it was done "against her protests" but let's be real, if she really didn't want tina to make a false confession on her behalf, she would've actually done something about it instead of making empty objections.

while the writing and plot managed to hook me in, i wasn't impressed by anything else so i don't know if i can say i would recommend this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Murder, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Vomit