The Final Girl Support Group

Hardcover, 339 pages

English language

Published July 13, 2021 by Berkley Books.

ISBN:
978-0-593-43704-9
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A fast-paced, thrilling horror novel that follows a group of heroines to die for, from the brilliant New York Times bestselling author of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires.

In horror movies, the final girl is the one who's left standing when the credits roll. The one who fought back, defeated the killer, and avenged her friends. The one who emerges bloodied but victorious. But after the sirens fade and the audience moves on, what happens to her?

Lynnette Tarkington is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre twenty-two years ago, and it has defined every day of her life since. And she's not alone. For more than a decade she's been meeting with five other actual final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, putting their lives back together, piece by piece. That is until one of the women …

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I sincerely hope this is part of a school curriculum one day. While the concept of the unreliable narrator has been around for centuries, this is one of the best uses of the technique I've seen since Edgar Allen Poe's Cask of Amontillado. On top of that, Hendrix's portrayal of post-traumatic stress built a sense panic that kept the pages turning for hours at a time, 10/10.