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The Final Girl Support Group

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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.
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from April 26, 2021
      Hendrix (The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires) delivers a wildly entertaining romp through the conventions of horror’s slasher film subgenre. The novel’s title refers to a Los Angeles–based therapeutic support group for six “final girls”—survivors of mass-murderer rampages whose experiences inspired the splatter-film franchises that saturated horror cinema in the 1980s and ’90s, earning them minor celebrity. When one of the six is murdered decades after she escaped her assailant, and others come under violent assault, Lynnette Tarkington—herself a survivor of the Silent Night Slayings of 1988—realizes that someone is trying to orchestrate an extravagant final girl finale. But is the killer a garden-variety homicidal maniac, an unhinged slasher-film superfan, or someone more intimately familiar with their group? 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. Agent: Joshua Bilmes, JABberwocky Literary.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      This darkly humorous horror story is narrated by Adrienne King, who played the original "final girl" in the movie FRIDAY THE 13TH. Six women comprise the Final Girl Support Group after surviving the kind of real-life horrors that inspired classic slasher films. Now someone is aiming to kill them off for good. King's deep, raspy voice amps up the chills in this suspenseful, violent story. While her narration can be a bit slow for the fast-paced plot, King's performance channels final girl Lynnette, who tells the story. While listeners may find the excerpts from news clippings and police reports between the chapters confusing at times, King fully delivers the creepiness factor and captures the anxiety-filled cast. V.T.M. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine
    • Library Journal

      October 1, 2021

      Hendrix (My Best Friend's Exorcism) covers the slasher movie genre in his latest horror satire, which asks how the "Final Girl"--the one who survives a dramatic serial killer rampage--manages to go on living with the survivor label hanging over her head. Middle-aged Final Girl Lynette lives a paranoid existence, with a support group of fellow Final Girls as her lone source of socialization. Lynette realizes something's wrong when the police find the severed head of another Final Girl who didn't show up for a group therapy session. The resulting chase sends up classic slasher franchises, including Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Scream, punctuated by the in-universe newspaper articles that are a hallmark of Hendrix's work. This dark humor hits the sweet spot where solidarity meets resilience. Hendrix knows his craft, but he walks a thin line between exploring a single idea thoroughly and exhausting it. Narrator Adrienne King provides the perfect voice for Lynette, quiet but determined, and neutral enough for deadpan gags and tense moments alike. VERDICT The audio format is a good choice for libraries, especially since this book relies less on visual gags than older Hendrix titles.--Aaron Heil, State Lib. of Kansas

      Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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