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A review by alexampersand
The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
4.0
I really enjoyed this book as a sort of love letter to the slasher genre.
That said, I think it was an interesting choice for most of the Final Girls to be very obviously based on huge franchises (Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Halloween, Scream) and yet the main character was based on a much smaller slasher... Although maybe that was also sort of the point with the fact that she is constantly told she's not a "real" final girl.
I also felt like by the end the book was trying to make some deeper emotional points about 'moving on' in a way that I'm not sure the plot really carried us to. I didn't personally see that there was enough growth and development within the story to reach the epiphany point of being able to move on with your life. It sort of feels like actually they just went through exactly the trauma that Lynette was always worried would happen... So surely that would just increase the paranoia?
Anyway, it was a fun read, and I did like what it had to say about sticking together and supporting one another, even if it didn't quite reach the emotional supportive notes that My Best Friend's Exorcism did.
That said, I think it was an interesting choice for most of the Final Girls to be very obviously based on huge franchises (Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Halloween, Scream) and yet the main character was based on a much smaller slasher... Although maybe that was also sort of the point with the fact that she is constantly told she's not a "real" final girl.
I also felt like by the end the book was trying to make some deeper emotional points about 'moving on' in a way that I'm not sure the plot really carried us to. I didn't personally see that there was enough growth and development within the story to reach the epiphany point of being able to move on with your life. It sort of feels like actually they just went through exactly the trauma that Lynette was always worried would happen... So surely that would just increase the paranoia?
Anyway, it was a fun read, and I did like what it had to say about sticking together and supporting one another, even if it didn't quite reach the emotional supportive notes that My Best Friend's Exorcism did.