The Final Girl Support Group

De: Grady Hendrix

Narrado por: Adrienne King

The Instant New York Times Best Seller

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“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 best-selling 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.

©2021 Grady Hendrix (P)2021 Penguin Audio

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“The Final Girl Support Group sizzles with action, originality, and a gleaming concept sharp as a scalpel.” (Charlaine Harris, number one New York Times best-selling author)

“A great read…[Hendrix] excels at writing horror humor.... His characters are funny and real, though at least one will definitely lose a limb at some point.... Though the final girls’ plight has all the scares of great horror fiction, there is an element of truth in their situation that will be recognizable to anyone who has experienced real trauma.” (The New York Times)

“A wildly entertaining romp through the conventions of horror’s slasher film subgenre.... Hendrix masterfully evokes the paranoid existences of his diverse cast in the aftermath of their traumatic ordeals, and he so explicitly details the massacres and fictional film sagas that grew out of them that readers may believe them to be real. The result is a wonderfully suspenseful and darkly comic novel that cleverly subverts popular culture. Horror fans will be wowed.” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)

Great Premise but falls short

I was so looking forward to this book. Pre-ordered months ahead.

Story: Great premise and loved the idea. Thought after Southern Book Club this would be similar vein but with a mix of Horrorstor. Well it wasn’t quite either as much as it tried. I didn’t believe in the characters camaraderie and the characters even point this out how much they don’t really know each other. After 16yrs of support group? Nope - not plausible and the sudden Thelma and Louise jaunt in the book was repetitive and awkwardly written. I just don’t feel for most of these characters and don’t like the main character either. There’s so much that could have been cut. There’s a lot I do like but overall its a 3 story wise just not greatly executed in comparison to his other books.

Narration: I thought the main character was an old woman. She reads slooooooow and talks and enunciates like a woman in her 60/70s. When you understand the main character is actually only 30/40s the voice feels 100% wrong. Definitely need a do-over with a more youthful interpretation. I think I would have enjoyed the story more. Definitely not what I’d consider an enjoyable listen and King was just cast wrong for this book narration.

In short, I’ll likely return as I don’t see listening to this ever again as it’s not an enjoyable listen and story not engaging enough. Bummer.

A slasher for all/Lives up to the hype

If you've ever wondered if your taste in horror was sick, or questioned why some creators have big, bloody murder fetishes...this packs a lot of brain candy. But, if you are a horror nerd or love a gruesome slasher... you're also going to love this book!

Meticulously researched; characters you can see and feel,;thoughtful insight into trauma, grief, and violence; and a plot that won't stop. CW: Everything? But delivered with care and a critical eye...But also gore galore.

A love letter to slasher films

What Grady Hendrix did here was write a love letter to Slasher films that is written on behalf of all genre fans. Between the references and parallels to slasher films over the decades and just a fun story overall, it was a great package, and Adrienne King as narrator was the bow. not only was it a great surprise to have her as the narrator, but she was also very good at it. This wasn't my favorite of Hendrix's work, but I had a blast listening to it.

I don't know y'all...

audible is a guilty pleasure of mine. it may seem stupid or silly but I'm a newly single mother back in the workforce after 23 years and nobody gave me any notice about this sudden transition, so my finances have been drastically altered, lol. in other words, I don't just click whatever book might look interesting when using my credits or making a purchase. and this side of my wish list for at least long enough for me to look at others and make sure it's what I wanted.
this seems like such an interesting idea for a story but FULL DISCLOSURE: (and I TRULY feel like dirt even admitting how much this distracted me but I'd want to know pre-purchase so here goes...)
he audible narrator his hands down maybe one of the two worst I've ever tried to get through. I cannot bear it, I can't get lost in the story because the narration distracts me to that degree. I keep hoping things will get moving enough to where she's not describing things constantly but I hate her deflection, I'm hate hell her voice changes to mimick a character but stays at that pitch while she continues speaking out of quotations, I hate the raspy whisper, I hate every attempted impersonation of each character... I just don't know if I'm going to be able to finish this book y'all. I don't even know that I'm not far in but I feel like it would be page 500, that's how long it feels with this awful narrator. and I'm sure it's a perfectly kind woman and maybe she portrayed it exactly as the author hoped and I guess that's important but y'all, I'm really struggling here. The only other one I found to actually make me not complete a book was someone speaking in the lowest whisperer possible with no change in pitch at any point. you couldn't even understand her. well I understand this person, I just I don't know I don't think it's well done and it's really taking away from getting lost in a story like I hoped. so they're. I said it. if I make it through the story, I promise I will come back and update, hopefully with them more positive comment to add in. because I feel bad about how bad this bothers me lol...

Nostalgic Slasher

I really liked this book. Growing up in the 80’s and 90’s the slasher references were great. The overall story was really good, surprised me at the end and the performance by Adrienne King was so good and so fitting!

Great premise failed execution.

Everyone is complaining about the narrator and not complaining about the failed premise. Don’t get me wrong the narrator was bad, definitely speed up the book or you will go crazy. It makes more sense now that I know it was narrated by Adrienne King. Props to the final girl of final girls.

The problem is the book didn’t follow through. The main character is good but a little annoying, which is honestly in character I guess. It’s just that the supporting characters are not interesting past figuring out what movie they came from and the twist was completely transparent. I didn’t dislike this book but it just wasn’t what it could have/should have been. Kind of reminded me of the movie “Brightburn” a totally watchable movie that could have been oh so much better.

Fantastic!

I loved how original the story was, while still paying homage to some of my favorite slasher movies in a new, unique way. Great book!

A Horror Movie Fans Dream

As expected, the best book of 2021 is right here- if you’re even a causal horror movie fan this is the novel for you. Grady Hendrix is unrivaled in the horror novelist community for being simultaneously funny, suspenseful, and authentic in everything he writes. This book feels like you’re watching some modern A24 film about Final Girls with a champion budget and widescreen release behind it. I will forever read anything Grady Hendrix puts out, so let’s hope he continues releasing books so I’m not scrounging the internet for tweets to get my fix.

world's dumbest heroin

the heroin is a crazy that shouldn't be allowed to leave her home much less run around town screaming your the killer at everyone she meets. throw in the constant bashing that all men are creepy sex addicts waiting for there chance to strike and this book becomes a chore to get through. all side characters r great loved Dani the most and can't help but feel any other girl would have been a better main character.

Excellent

Such a good listen! I haven’t enjoyed a book like this before and I appreciated the narrator so much.