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A fast-paced, thrilling horror novel that follows a group of heroines to die for, from the brilliant New York Times best-selling author of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires.

In horror movies, the final girl is the one who’s left standing when the credits roll. The one who fought back, defeated the killer and avenged her friends. The one who emerges bloodied but victorious. But after the sirens fade and the audience moves on, what happens to her?

Lynnette Tarkington survived a massacre 22 years ago, and it has defined every day of her life since. And she's not alone. 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, putting their lives back together, piece by piece. That is until one of the women misses a meeting and Lynnette's worst fears are realized - someone knows about the group and is determined to take their lives apart again, piece by piece.

But the thing about these final girls is that they have each other now, and no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.

©2020 Grady Hendrix (P)2020 W. F. Howes Ltd Horror Scary

Critic reviews

"Sizzles with action, originality and a gleaming concept as sharp as a scalpel.” (Charlaine Harris)

“A (bloody) valentine to the slasher franchises of the VHS era, but also a smart novel about survivor guilt and the concept of the enduring heroine.” (Kim Newman, author of Anno Dracula)

“Pray for morning, wish for speed and be as quiet as you can, it doesn't matter Grady's Hendrix's Final Girl Support Group already knows where you live and breathe.” (Stephen Graham Jones)
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I loved this book, from start to finish it is exciting, funny and strangely touching (I cried over a house plant). The narrator is one of, if not the best female narrator I've ever heard. And the fact that she was a final girl made it even better!

amazing!

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I recognise that this may just be an issue for me and not the general, wider listening audience. I am a huge horror fan. Slasher movies were my favourite sub genre growing up. So this book is right up my alley. But I found myself constantly distracted by all the references to the big franchises. Each character is named after an actress who was a final girl. Every ‘massacre’ title was a slight play on their movie franchise. Situations played out almost entirely how they do in respective movies. Character names are pulled verbatim (Dwight Riley, Judy Hicks…). After a while, everytime time one came up, it just pulled me from the otherwise incredibly fun premise and fast paced thriller.

Too reference heavy to go along with it.

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Felt like how much fantasy and how much realism it relied on was muddy. aka Dream King compared to Ghost. Narrator sometimes talks through teeth

Didn't call the end twist

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An interesting story, some parts I thought would have been clearer/made more sense in the written format, I didn’t really like any of the characters and I think I got a little lost in the middle of the story somewhere. But it was different and interesting and did make me think about personal safety and the depiction of women in violence. Definitely worth a listen.

Interesting and thought provoking

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I loved Grady Hendrix other books. However this was a hard slog to finish.
I was just constantly hoping it would get better.

The best thing about this book was the ending

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