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A review by tashasbooks
The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
dark
3.75
The Final Girl Support Group pays homage to the classic horror movies and their final girls in a thriller like pacing.
Lynnette Tarkington survived a massacre decades ago and has spent the time since living in isolation except for her support group with other final girls. She spends time with other final girls to try to piece together their lives as they are the only ones who understand what each other has been through. When one of the final girls is murdered, Lynnette realizes that someone is coming after the final girls and she needs to be one step ahead to save them all.
I'm not sure how I feel about this book. I did like it a lot at first and the overall plot, but I truly struggled with Lynnette as a character and reading other reviews made me realize that. It was really tough to read from her perspective because she kept making so many mistakes. It's really emphasized that she spent her whole life training for a moment like this and having observational awareness, but she really is unprepared and just keeps making mistakes. In general, all the final girl characters are pretty unlikeable. I actually haven't seen that many horror movie classics so the only connection I made was Marilyn was the girl from Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but supposedly all of the girls are representative of popular horror movie final girls.
I think that was the main part I didn't like about this book, but the overall story was very interesting and the plot was super fast paced! I would say it's more of a thriller rather than a horror book that just tends to be gory. There is a lot of gore, so that could bother a lot of people, but again it's more of a thriller and Lynnette trying to figure out who the killer is.
Lynnette Tarkington survived a massacre decades ago and has spent the time since living in isolation except for her support group with other final girls. She spends time with other final girls to try to piece together their lives as they are the only ones who understand what each other has been through. When one of the final girls is murdered, Lynnette realizes that someone is coming after the final girls and she needs to be one step ahead to save them all.
I'm not sure how I feel about this book. I did like it a lot at first and the overall plot, but I truly struggled with Lynnette as a character and reading other reviews made me realize that. It was really tough to read from her perspective because she kept making so many mistakes. It's really emphasized that she spent her whole life training for a moment like this and having observational awareness, but she really is unprepared and just keeps making mistakes. In general, all the final girl characters are pretty unlikeable. I actually haven't seen that many horror movie classics so the only connection I made was Marilyn was the girl from Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but supposedly all of the girls are representative of popular horror movie final girls.
I think that was the main part I didn't like about this book, but the overall story was very interesting and the plot was super fast paced! I would say it's more of a thriller rather than a horror book that just tends to be gory. There is a lot of gore, so that could bother a lot of people, but again it's more of a thriller and Lynnette trying to figure out who the killer is.