The Final Girl Support Group

By: Grady Hendrix

Narrated by: Adrienne King

Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins

Publisher's summary

The Instant New York Times Best Seller

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 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

Critic reviews

“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)

Adrienne King is excellent!!!

Not surprisingly, this is a great story from Grady Hendrix -- inventive, funny, moving, and terrifying.

And Adrienne King (the final girl from Friday the 13th, killed at the very beginning of Part 2) knocks it out of the park as the narrator!

Oh Adrienne

I REALLY wanted to enjoy Adrienne’s narration because I absolutely love her, but this is not her thing. I felt like I was listening to a kindergarten teacher reading me a book. I even sped it up to 1.3 times and it still wasn’t less than a bowl for me. I really like this author, but I think I’m going to have to read this one instead. I had to return it.

Slasher horror with a social commentary

This novel is amazing…as a fan of horror and a feminist, this book combines both! An engaging read and compelling plot!

Speed it up

If you speed it up to 1.8 you can still fully understand the narrator and her voice is tolerable.

Like many Hendrix books you will love it or hate it. It’s pretty darn good! I’d rank it up there with Southern Book Club. It’s better than Horrorstor and Best Friends Exorcism.

Give it a go!

Story great but the narrator was awful

Not sure why this narrator was chosen. Her phrasing was weird - it was as if she hadn't read the book ahead of time to consider the sentence flow, so there were weird breaks that don't occur when the narration is thought through. It felt choppy and the emphasis was often odd.

Mixed bag

Loved the story, the funny and the scary but the performance… was not good. I did not enjoy the choices made by the performer for the narrator of the the story. Very distracting.

Can't Get Past the Narrator

The story has so much promise, but I feel like a kindergarten teacher is reading it to me.

Loved this, but did have a few slow moments

Overall I loved this! Although,there were a few times in the story that went on for way too long and other moments I wish were given more time and detail. I also found myself annoyed at times with the main character and yelling at her, haha.

Save your ears

If you don’t want to spend time wishing you had something sharp in your eardrum I was with, do yourself a favor and get the actual book and read it yourself. This woman’s voice is enough to make your skin crawl. There’s no definition between any of the characters and she sounds like a robot. I was reading it in a book group in multiple people but an audio and we all felt the exact same way.

A book that I wasn’t able to guess the entire outcome of! Finally!

I really enjoyed this book and was looking forward to it coming out on Audible. I found that the story kept me engaged throughout and finally I wasn’t able to guess the entire outcome of this book. Most books I can guess what the outcome is going to be about a quarter of the way into to the book and it ruins the suspense of the book and the enjoyment and I ens up abandoning a lot of books. This book I kept giving me different outcomes for this book and I was guessing throughout and i loved that! The story was well written and engaging and the plot twist in the book is amazing after all of the “imagined” plot twists. It’s a wonderful read or listen. The narrator wasn’t the best but if you tune her out and pay attention to the story it isn’t an issue.