Reviews tagging 'Forced institutionalization'

The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix

36 reviews

micklesreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This book blew me away. So freaking good. Just incredible. I read it in under 48 hours.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Torture, and Violence

_bellakoepp_'s review against another edition

Repetitive, main character is not very likable 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Child death, Cursing, and Death

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Forced institutionalization

webb_beb's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Here is the thing: this book was so scary. Like so scary that I almost had to stop reading it because I was making myself nervous. But I also couldn’t tear myself away. There were quite a few surprises and so much going on. I loved the unreliability of Lynne as the narrator and how complicated she was. But I felt like parts of it were just a little brutal to me. I’ve always loved the scream queens/final girls trope and this really pushes that to the edge in a way that is almost campy. Someone make this into a movie immediately. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Cannibalism, Child death, Confinement, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, and Terminal illness

Minor: Cancer, Alcoholism, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

davidrb's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-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

4.5

If you read Sager's Final Girls and was wildly disappointed like I was, this is the perfect balm. The plot moves, the characters are dynamic and sympathetic, and the story is wonderfully steeped in horror tropes. It plays with the genre and critiques it while also maintaining a wonderful respect for it.

Points deducted for

killing the black character first, a horror trope that this book sadly does not subvert

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Cancer, Cannibalism, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Police brutality, Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, and Violence

mallory10100's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

wow this was a wild ride!! it was more brutal/gruesome/gory/disturbing than i expected! it’s my first horror read and i had a blast! if you like classic slasher movies you’d definitely enjoy this one! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Cancer, Car accident, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Lesbophobia, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual content, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Violence, Vomit, and Police brutality

Moderate: Ableism, Body horror, Vomit, and Police brutality

blakethebookeater's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Gore, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Blood, and Body horror

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Police brutality, Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, Kidnapping, Forced institutionalization, and Confinement

Minor: Drug use, Child death, and Addiction