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A review by readingmissfroggy
Final Girls by Riley Sager
4.0
4.5 stars
This is my first ever thriller (if you forget that one time I picked up a Karen Slaughter book at the age of 9, which you should since I didn't understand anything about it). I felt in the mood for a thriller and this was one that caught my eyes a while ago. I loved the synopsis so I decided to give it a go. That jump totally got rewarded.
I really liked the characters and the story behind them. One thing that I especially enjoyed is that every couple of chapters you get a chapter from the night Quincy became a Final Girl. Both story lines were enjoyable to follow though I think if I had to choose I would have to say that the Pine Cottage one is my favourite. It really helped to build up Quincy's character. The other characters such as Sam, Coop and Jeff were also interesting to follow though all three could at times really annoy me. I felt like some of those annoyances were dragged out a bit which made parts of the story drag which is why I can't give the book 5 stars.
The most important part of any thriller (I think?) is of course the mystery. I'm not the most seasoned thriller reader so I can't tell you exactly how obvious the whole twist was but I didn't see it coming though at the same time I thought something fishy was happening because I noticed a certain thing that I thought was weird... So it made me look out a bit more for this certain thing and in the end I was right. But I in no way was able to guess what exactly happened and why so I was surprised! Some of the other twists also totally took me by surprise and I really enjoyed the last chapter.
After reading this book I really feel the urge to read more thriller type books. I don't think I'm a thriller reader, it's not a genre that I really look for but lately there have been a couple of them on my radar with interesting synopsis so who knows... Maybe I will become one!
This is my first ever thriller (if you forget that one time I picked up a Karen Slaughter book at the age of 9, which you should since I didn't understand anything about it). I felt in the mood for a thriller and this was one that caught my eyes a while ago. I loved the synopsis so I decided to give it a go. That jump totally got rewarded.
I really liked the characters and the story behind them. One thing that I especially enjoyed is that every couple of chapters you get a chapter from the night Quincy became a Final Girl. Both story lines were enjoyable to follow though I think if I had to choose I would have to say that the Pine Cottage one is my favourite. It really helped to build up Quincy's character. The other characters such as Sam, Coop and Jeff were also interesting to follow though all three could at times really annoy me. I felt like some of those annoyances were dragged out a bit which made parts of the story drag which is why I can't give the book 5 stars.
The most important part of any thriller (I think?) is of course the mystery. I'm not the most seasoned thriller reader so I can't tell you exactly how obvious the whole twist was but I didn't see it coming though at the same time I thought something fishy was happening because I noticed a certain thing that I thought was weird... So it made me look out a bit more for this certain thing and in the end I was right. But I in no way was able to guess what exactly happened and why so I was surprised! Some of the other twists also totally took me by surprise and I really enjoyed the last chapter.
After reading this book I really feel the urge to read more thriller type books. I don't think I'm a thriller reader, it's not a genre that I really look for but lately there have been a couple of them on my radar with interesting synopsis so who knows... Maybe I will become one!