aumamox 's review for:

The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix

2.5

dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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 Hard to rate this one ; on one side, a lot of good ideas, going back to the "Final Girls" after their big bloody days, seeing them in therapy, etc. On the other, the execution is clumsy at best, the plot twists happen one after the other in a weird way, as if the author thought mid-writing that the killer was too easy to guess and switched to another. The final scene was well-written and intense but, strangely, for a book full of slasher references, it didn't feel like much of a slasher. Yeah, it talked about Final Girls so naturally about slashers, yes there was a final fight with blood, injuries, surprise and plot twists, but... Not a lot of chasing around, the characters arrive at the scene after a lot has already happened (completely excluding the reader from what makes a slasher... a slasher), they mention 20 people being at the location during the final fight but we never get to hear about them or see them, they simply never mention them again after that. I don't know. It felt like too much and not enough at the same time. I was expecting a lot more about this book and I'm a little bit disappointed. I wouldn't really go out of my way to recommend it, and I certainly would not recommend it as a slasher.