There's the jock, the nerd, the shady one, the sexy one, and then there's the final girl. The girl who outlives everyone. The girl who kills the killer.
I usually get a little chill when the little line at the beginning of the horror film says "the following events are based on a true story." Which makes sense. We're obsessed with death, horror, gore. We root for the underdog, only to see her get annihilated in the sequel.
But Grady Hendrix's new book, The Final Girl Support Group follows the women behind the characters. The one thing they all have in common is that there were all final girls. They all survived the mass murders of their friends and families, and now they have a group where everyone else knows what that's like.
Of course, it wouldn't be a horror novel if that's all it was based on.....
Obviously, someone starts hunting the final girls.
Someone wants Lynnette to be the final final girl and they go to great lengths to make that happen.
All the characters were incredibly diverse. The final girls in this group are Lynnette, who never truly felt like a final girl; Heather, a recovering drug addict whose halfway house burns down; Dani, a woman taking care of her dying wife and their ranch; Marilyn, a Texan debutante; and Julia, a woman who was confined to a wheelchair after her attack left her paralyzed. Oh and all their attacks happened over 20 years ago, so this ragtag team is well into their 30s, 40s, and 50s.
Honestly, Grady Hendrix is an auto-buy author for me so I'm never disappointed with his work.
Looking for other books by Grady Hendrix?
I still need to read SOMETHING by this author, but this one is definitely at the top of my list. Glad you enjoyed it!
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Southern Guide is my fav of his!!
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