The Final Girl Support Group

De: Grady Hendrix

Narrado por: Adrienne King

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.

My ears

The narrator’s voice was like nails on a chalkboard terrible . I had a hard time finishing it. Story was enjoyable.

Great book for everyone, not just fans of horror.

The concept of The Final Girl Support Group is phenomenal and managed to turn a tired genre into something fresh and new. The "final girls," the real life lone female survivors of mass murder that major horror movie franchises were based on, are growing older now. No longer fresh faced teenage virgins, they are struggling to make it on their own in the world. Some are doing fairly well, others can barely leave their barricaded fortresses even for food. But all go out once a month, no matter what, to The Final Girl Support Group that they've been attending with each other for the past 16 years. But the group is losing its cohesion, and members are threatening to drop out. They're all frustrated with trying to live in a society that refuses to see them as anything other than objects of morbid curiosity. But for some "Superfans" that curiosity has crossed the line into obsession. The morning one of the Girls is found murdered, the rest realize their brutal fight for survival is starting all over again.

I was a bit concerned that I wouldn't be able to follow along in the book because I'm not a huge fan of slasher movies, and I don't like the multi-sequel franchise movies in particular. But I absolutely LOVED Grady Hendrix's book Horrorstor, so I decided to give this one a shot. The good news is that the plotlines of the movies are merely the characters' backstories. They aren't even always the true backstory because Hollywood has obviously taken massive liberties with them. Hendrix explains everything you need to understand everything and everyone in the book, even if you haven't seen a single horror film.

The Final Girl Support Group is a deceptively rich novel. Hendrix fully fleshes out these women in all their flawed glory and really nails the complicated dynamics of Sisterhood. He also tackles PTSD, and very compassionately shows how difficult it is for some people to create a future for themselves after their lives get shattered. Just how do you go on when you don't really want to? What do we owe to those who help us survive, and what do we owe to those whom we weren't able to save? Is dying really the worst thing that can happen to a person? The utter unfairness of life gets touched on several.times, as do all the many forms of betrayal friends can inflict on one another. All this while the plot races on without a pause, and goes through every twist and turn imaginable!

I only have two complaints with this book. The first is the incredibly slow pace of the narrator. Fortunately Audible lets the listener change the speed of the narration or I don't think I would have made it through the book! But once I sped it up it was fine. The other difficulty I had was that each chapter starts with a newspaper clipping or police interview notes, or a journal entry or something along those lines. In the written book it's easy to see these notes are not part of the ongoing narrative because they're in different fonts, etc. But in an audio version it isn't too easy to figure that out, especially when the chapter number and title are read AFTER the clipping. It took a while to figure out what was going on, because when read out loud, there is no break between the story and some completely unrelated snippet of info from 20 years ago. If the narrator had read the chapter number and title first it would have been a huge help.

I was so confused at first

the first part of this audiobook was kinda slow and weird. I'm very glad I didn't give up on it bc it was great once it started to all click and come together. Great narrator and twists.

Ok story - not a fan of narration

I was looking forward to The Final Girl Support Group all year. To say my expectations were high after such a long wait is a gross understatement. The reading experience was definitely entertaining with its mystery/thriller & suspense, but it was also confusing in my opinion and took me a good minute to get going. And unfortunately, I was not a fan of the audiobook narration. While this isn't horror, it does provide some nostalgia of old slasher film cinema, and as always, it's a fine cure for rainy day boredom.

Fun book!

This unique novel provides engaging characters and a twist-and-turn story. just when you think you have it figured out, you don't! Reading of the novel is very well done and makes the characters come alive. Don't pass this up!