The Final Girl Support Group

Grady Hendrix

Jul 2021 · Sold by Penguin

About this ebook

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

VOTED GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD BEST HORROR NOVEL OF 2021

A Good Morning America Buzz Pick

“The horror master…puts his unique spin on slasher movie tropes.”-USA Today

A can't-miss summer read, selected by The New York Times, Oprah Daily, Time, USA Today, The Philadelphia Inquirer, CNN, LitHub, BookRiot, Bustle, Popsugar and the New York Public Library

In horror movies, the final girls are the ones left standing when the credits roll. They made it through the worst night of their lives…but what happens after?

Like his bestselling novel The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, Grady Hendrix’s latest is a fast-paced, frightening, and wickedly humorous thriller. From chain saws to summer camp slayers, The Final Girl Support Group pays tribute to and slyly subverts our most popular horror films—movies like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Scream.

Lynnette Tarkington is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she’s been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized—someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece.
 
But the thing about final girls is that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.

Ratings and reviews

Good suspense thriller, but nothing that I consider horror. It's a slasher book and the things the "final girls" went through were horrible but again, I stress, NOT true horror as I see it - no ghosts, no supernatural evils from beyond the grave, no werewolves or vampires or zombies. Just human psycho killers. Now, I like a good crime thriller as much as the next guy but when I buy something that's marketed as horror I expect it to be truly scary, not merely suspensful. Bottom line, if you're looking for bump-in-the-night frights this isn't the book for you.

I was really really hoping to like this book. I loved the idea of a Final Girls group but this book just couldn't get it together. I ended up not finishing halfway through it as the hospice scene was just something else and wasn't needed imo. The characters act like teenagers when they're 40 to 50 years old.

I'm very satisfied

About the author

Grady Hendrix is an award-winning novelist and screenwriter living in New York City. He is the author of Horrorstör, My Best Friend’s Exorcism (which is being adapted into a feature film by Amazon Studios), We Sold Our Souls, and the New York Times bestseller The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires (currently being adapted into a TV series). Grady also authored the Bram Stoker Award–winning nonfiction book Paperbacks from Hell, a history of the horror paperback boom of the seventies and eighties, and his latest non-fiction book is These Fists Break Bricks: How Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the World.