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A review by stateofgrace
The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
3.75
A very interesting premise that drew on the conventions of the slasher genre but also managed to subvert those conventions to center the voices of women. Still, the depiction of women within this book feel victim the genre conventions that turn women into props. Specifically the character of Adrienne doesn't sit right with me, considering that she is the only character of color and is killed off-screen.
I guessed the final plot twist within the first fifty pages of the book. I wouldn't even say that it was foreshadowed, since it was explicitly revealed if you were reading close enough.Stephanie Fugate is one of the killers. This was extremely clumsily foreshadowed — one of the Reddit users complaining about their hatred of final girls is u/fu(bar)gate. The connection is very obvious.
As a thriller, I enjoyed it. I liked the homages to the various horror franchises of the 70's, 80's, and 90's. As a subversion of the horror genre, I think that it needed to show the empowerment of its female characters, rather than just telling the audience that they are empowered now.
I guessed the final plot twist within the first fifty pages of the book. I wouldn't even say that it was foreshadowed, since it was explicitly revealed if you were reading close enough.
As a thriller, I enjoyed it. I liked the homages to the various horror franchises of the 70's, 80's, and 90's. As a subversion of the horror genre, I think that it needed to show the empowerment of its female characters, rather than just telling the audience that they are empowered now.