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The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix

22 reviews

letters_from_gabriella's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Medical content, Kidnapping, Gore, Toxic friendship, Misogyny, Death, Pedophilia, Injury/Injury detail, Cancer, Violence, Rape, Panic attacks/disorders, Gun violence, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Drug use, Cursing, Child death, Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Murder, Medical trauma, Mass/school shootings, Drug abuse, Stalking, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Sexism, and Racism

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Vomit, Alcoholism, Lesbophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

hauntedantiqueshop's review

mysterious medium-paced

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

1.0

I really am sick of being a hater but damn, it’s just SO easy. 

ALL of the characters are annoying and unlovable, their backstories are just copy and pasted classic slasher movies that were chopped and screwed the TINIEST bit. There’s no originality to them whatsoever, even down to their names. I get it’s supposed to be an homage but it feels more like borderline plagiarism or parody. Not to mention that some of the specific movies he picked to steal from are unrealistic in real life scenarios. There's like five bad guy fake outs, it’s overkill once you finally get the big (predictable and also just straight up taken from Scream 4 and 5) picture. There was a weird feminist take he was halfassed trying to make but it felt insincere and patronizing. Killing the only black character first (off screen!), having her buy her movie rights and not fix the whitewashing of her own trauma, and then having her be a hypeman hallucination for a white woman to survive, TO THEN let one of the masterminds behind her death into their support group is just in such bad taste. There really isn’t a redeeming quality of this book for me.

tldr: I’m revoking Grady Hendrix’s writing privileges. He’s going in the chokey.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Blood, Murder, Body horror, Car accident, Grief, Medical content, Death, Gore, Gun violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexism, Misogyny, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Domestic abuse, Incest, Alcohol, Animal death, Cannibalism, Addiction, Abandonment, and Pedophilia

emmaj_xo's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

3.0

The final girl trauma of the Halloween reboot with some Scream-like meta horror nods thrown in for good measure. 

The protagonist is a mess who consistently makes the wrong choices but I love a flawed final girl. 

Enjoyed the character work throughout and didn’t predict the ending. But, the third act let me down somewhat and wasn’t as thrilling as I’d hoped. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gun violence, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Vomit and Terminal illness

Minor: Child abuse and Pedophilia

romonko's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

1.0

In my own personal opinion, this book is garbage.  It is the most graphic, viscious and depraved book that I've ever read.  
The only reason that I read it was because it was a gift box book.  I am sure that there are fans of the horror genre that have read this and enjoyed it, and I am sorry to disagree with them. I read it to the end, even as difficult as it was, and am kind of glad that I did as the end was the only tiny flicker of light in the entire book.  The descriptions of the slayings are so horrendous that I am afraid I skipped through most of them.  The characters are a depraved and vicious lot.  At some primal level, I can understand how anyone that had gone through and seen the horrors that these girls have lived through would forever be scarred and unable to function normally.  It is the most extreme form of PTSD that there is.  That at least came through loud and clear in this book.  Each of the victims had their own coping mechanisms, and each relied on their group therapy to help them through it.  That all makes sense, but to have to live through what each of them saw and experienced was too much for me.  I know there are monsters in this world, but I don't have to get to know them as well as I came to know the monsters in this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Sexual assault, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Pedophilia, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual violence, Torture, and Violence

paronomaniac's review

dark emotional mysterious sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, and Gore

Moderate: Gun violence, Cancer, and Death

Minor: Pedophilia and Cannibalism

brookey8888's review

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious tense medium-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

I really enjoyed this one and I know a lot of people don’t t like this so it’s an unpopular opinion. I just was so invested in the story and the characters and I didn’t see a lot of things happening. I thought the concept was interesting and the topics thought provoking and I liked some of the discussions in this. I really liked Lynnette as the main character and the strength and growth she went through. This also made me weirdly emotional at times, but it’s just the dark themes and the horrible world it’s hard not to. This was also pretty funny at times. I don’t know something about this just worked for me. I liked the sister aspect which I think really made me enjoy this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Cursing, Death of parent, Child death, Blood, Body horror, Pedophilia, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, Stalking, Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Vomit, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Torture, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Mental illness, Violence, Animal death, Kidnapping, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Lesbophobia, Police brutality, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, and Misogyny

theangelssing's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I would’ve loved to put a better note, really. I’m sad I didn’t like this book as much as I thought I would but here we go. 

At first I really liked the writing style and the plot, it was really interesting to follow Lynnette’s thoughts and to discover the different characters from her point of view only, but then it started to be weird and I had difficulties to follow every stories of every characters. I was lost between all the names and all the stories. But that didn’t stop me from reading the book anyway. The story was still really interesting and I wanted to know the end.
At the same time I found it really interesting to have only Lynnette’s thoughts because of the atmosphere it created. I really felt her pain, her thoughts, I really tried to understand her and I really was invested in what was happening. I can’t say I always understood nor supported her and her choices but I did understand the difficulty behind every situation and choice. 

I can’t relate to her nor to the other final girls as I never experienced what they experienced so I can’t even say if their reactions and decisions were legit but I think the intentions of the author were still interesting and it opened a window on the women who are final girls in real life. We need representation.

Well, what I didn’t like. The book was really long for me. It took me too much time even tho the book hasn’t that much pages. I think the whole thing with Stephanie was too long. 

I do understand that maybe we needed moments with Stephanie so we could feel closer to her and so being sad she’s the villain. But it was very long.

Some passages were very long for me to read, maybe they were all important but they still didn’t caught my attention. I kept reading because I wanted to know what happens at the end (yes, I was clueless) but I was reading some scenes only to finish the book and not because I actually liked them.
And man I was so sad for Skye. I had hope for him, really. I really liked him and I felt heartbroken after the end please
I think the whole story of Chrissy was so rushed. I would’ve liked to know more about her and her story to understand her better and not seeing her being kind of a villain nobody understood.
I hated each part with Garrett P. I found them interesting and disgusting at the same time. Garrett was an awful and disgusting character and I didn’t like how he used and played with Lynnette when she still was a teenager while he was a grown up man. I found their relationship really inappropriate and kinda toxic.

Overall it still was a good book. I just think some stories where too long and some weren’t enough.
I gave 4 stars because I think the book is still pretty good and the characters were really interesting!! I really liked reading about those characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Violence, Body horror, Alcohol, Gore, Alcoholism, Murder, Blood, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Death, Child death, and Addiction

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Pedophilia, and Gaslighting

bekah1210's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Murder, Violence, and Mass/school shootings

Moderate: Blood and Death of parent

Minor: Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Police brutality, Addiction, Animal death, Mental illness, and Cancer

norwegianforestreader's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Grief, Hate crime, Mass/school shootings, Mental illness, Medical content, Pedophilia, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Death of parent, Murder, Blood, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Cannibalism, Car accident, Gore, Kidnapping, Alcohol, Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Misogyny, Police brutality, Torture, Body horror, Child death, Ableism, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, and Sexism

bookedbymadeline'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I really enjoyed this one more than I expected! I’m not a big fan of slasher films and have only seen 1 or 2 but I could still appreciate and understand the references. 

None of the characters are likeable but the plot and great writing style made me tolerate them and keep reading 😂 This was an exciting and quick read with plenty of unexpected plot twists! I realized after finishing this, that I actually have another book from the author on my nightstand for this months TBR so I can’t wait to read more from him! Whether you’ve watched/enjoyed slasher films or not, I’d highly recommend this horror thriller novel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gun violence, Body horror, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Pedophilia, Panic attacks/disorders, Addiction, Toxic relationship, and Cancer

Minor: Animal cruelty and Misogyny