A review by blueberryhotel
The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix

adventurous 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

3.5

going from the last book i read (which had stories that were written over a span ranging from 1893 to 1972) to this one practically gave me whiplash, the writing style is so different i almost really hated it at first but i acclimated quickly because the plot immediately sucked me in. it’s so suspenseful and action-driven that i couldn’t stop reading and finished it in about 4 days. the unreliable narrator trope emerged later in the book when i wasn’t expecting it, which added some interest, and i really felt lynette’s paranoia and hypervigilance leaching out of the pages into my mind. for a second there i thought i was going to hate the ending because

it seemed the author was going to throw away the feminist undertones and subverting-the-horror-genre approach in favor of a shocking twist

but he managed to defy my expectations once more at the very end which is impressive. at times could be somehow both predictable and confusing - i kept getting bogged down in the details and chronology of events - but overall a fun read