3.5 starsWhat if all our favorite slasher movies were based on real-life cases?And that's the premise of this book.I liked the clever spin on the slasher genre and I liked all the nods toiconic horror films. I also liked how self-aware Hendrix was about the violence towards women in those films and how he addressed it without becoming preachy.Part of the genre is mindless violence. But another part is that we like to see our worst fears played out in front of us. We like to run those worst-case

Great premise, but not what I expected, and sadly as much as I liked the first quarter, the rest just felt the same and I was bored. Sometimes unlikable characters still make a fascinating read, it's not the case for me here. I didn't care for any of the Final Girls. It's possible that the narration made it worse with nonstop panic emotions throughout the story. I felt exhausted and couldn't wait for it to be over. I didn't care who lives or dies either, sorry (not sorry).🤪🩸This is my first book...

It’s not often I find myself thinking a book would probably be better as a movie, but here we are. Grady Hendrix’s latest novel, The Final Girl Support Group, takes a cheeky look at the last girls alive at the end of slasher flicks. The central premise being, what if Sally from “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” Nancy from “Nightmare on Elm Street” and a handful of other final girls got together regularly for group therapy? Brilliant idea! Okay-ish execution. While Hendrix’s characters are inspired

"Men don't have to pay attention the way we do. men die because they make mistakes. Women? We die because we're female."I'll give him this: Grady Hendrix knows how to write a compelling tale. I've read most of his books (with the exception of still needing to conquer We Sold Our Souls), and each one seems to contain a message about society that gives me pause to ponder. The Final Girl Support Group definitely covers female identity and the double standards given between men and women, even still...

I’m giving ten gazillion stars and getting out of here! There are some incredible books written by extraordinary minds make you feel everything at the same time and once you finish them you feel speechless because no words will be enough to reflect your emotions! This book is great example of these extremely fantastic reads and Mr. Hendrix proved one more time to us he is a true literature prodigy! I’m die hard fan of Southern Book Club’s guide to the slaying vampires. It was my favorite thrill...

Grady's writing style is fun as always, and I appreciated the focus on older women who are left forgotten by mass audiences after their trauma has been monetized and exploited. However, I could tell that the intended theme for this book was to show these women looking out for one another, persisting through life despite their trauma, being more than just the horrific thing that happened to them, etc — this is made pretty obvious by his writing in the final pages — but as I reflect on this story,...

A solid 3 star book. Enjoyed the story, good sense of humor, some twists and turns to the end. Plus, we met the author a few years ago at BookCon, and he was a really nice person, so I’m a fan. Recommended read.

Unfortunately, this just wasn't for me. And I am sure this is really "it's not you, it's me" case.In all honesty, the reason I picked up The Final Girl Support Group was the hype it was getting even before it's release, due to the author's popularity.I usually love horror movies, slashers and gory are my jam, but here in this book... although I do appreciate the action... most of the time I felt lost.From the very beginning something felt off. It was probably the writing style I just couldn't ge...

This is a Horror Thriller. This is a fast pace book that is full of twists and turns and suspense. I cannot say much about this book without giving something away. This book is all about a support group of girls where all the girls/women in the group as survived something really bad. This book is told by one of the girls in the group. This book kept me guessing and not knowing. I really enjoyed this book, and the wild ride it took me on. I was kindly provided an e-copy of this book by the publis...

Ugh, kill Em’ all, please. ⏰ 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫: A group of six real-life Final Girls get together monthly for support. A final girl is that last girl in a horror movie who survives but these women survived the real deal. But then final girls start dying, and the horror returns…💡𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬: Oh this was disappointing. One of those books I don’t understand the high ratings. My issue started with this whole final girl premise - I understand this trope in movies, but in real life (or realistic fict...

4.5 STARSThere is an ancient saying, which roughly translates to:“Fortune will rain down on you if you don’t spit in a camel’s eye.”Now, as a Westerner, it might sound silly, but think about it for a minute…How many billionaires do you know who is known for their camel-eye-spitting? Granted, I don’t know any of them, so there might be some kind of fetish club out there who cater for some, but the optimist in me would like to believe we live in a world where people refrain from spitting in a came...

A lot of the same issues here as with TSBCGTSV...It's obvious that Hendrix holds a lot of knowledge about the horror genre, but he also struggles to revamp the tropes he chooses to write about into something that is truly worth reading.The idea to focus on final girls once their "15 minutes of fame" has ended is smart, but Hendrix's execution is harsher than any slasher death. His female characters and the messages surrounding their terrors are painfully shallow. Doubling down on the same old fo...

A final girl is the sole survivor of a horror movie...the one who fought back, AGAIN and AGAIN defeating the killer, to be left standing, bloodied and bruised, but ALIVE, as the credits roll.One problem…I never liked slasher movies like Friday the 13th, Chucky or Scream. Too gory, too silly, too OVER THE TOP.So, WHY did I read this when I was invited to? Simple. I LOVED ❤️ the author’s previous book-“The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires”!! So, I had to give it a try! https://www.go...

Insert Capone's Oh No song from TikTok here...... This was definitely not it. This was more like, me- the actual final girl- trying to survive the massacre that was this book! I'm the one who needs to attend a Final Girl Support Group after reading this, because this was soooo messy and not the good kind. Full review to come on my channel because this was so disappointing and underwhelming :(Sad days. I'm starting to think books as slashers don't really work. 2 STARSTwitter | Bookstagram |

Any fan of slasher films will know what a final girl is. She’s the nice, sane one who escapes harm for most of the film while her friends and/or family are butchered, only to have a confrontation with the killer at the end. She will be the only survivor of the massacre...unless the killer comes back from the dead over and over in an endless amount of sequels.The Final Girl Support Group is a...well, it’s just like it sounds: A support group for Final Girls, a group of women in L.A. who have all

I didn’t like this book. I wanted to give it 3 stars but I couldn’t find enough things I liked about it to do so. It started out okay and plummeted for me. It’s basically a miracle I even finished it. I almost DNF’d about 4 or 5 times. My biggest complaint was the ‘humor’. There were so many crude lines it was almost cringe-worthy. A lot of the humor was someone telling the main character not to do something and her doing it anyways. It’s only funny the first time. Not the 20th. There was a part...

**4.5-stars**The Final Girl Support Group, Hendrix's 2021-release, revolves around the idea that final girls are actually real. It proposes that the classic Slasher films we Horror Fans grew up on, and adore, are based on the real-life horror stories these women survived. We're talking movies such as Friday the 13th, Halloween, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Nightmare on Elm Street, Leprechaun and Black Christmas.Twenty-two years ago, Lynnette Tarkington, survived a massacre in her home. She is a

I wanted to love this sooooo badly but this book just wasn’t for me 😭😭😭

oooh, goodreads choice awards finalist for best horror 2021! WHAT WILL HAPPEN LET’S FIND OUT!Curiosity was the faceless monster that stuck a pitchfork through the cat.i tore through this book so quickly that, although i had a good time reading it, it's already starting to vanish outta my brain:in the real world, slumber parties, homecoming dances, and summer camps are not typically plagued by single-minded spree-killers who are themselves eventually killed by plucky heroines, earning them "final...

The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix To get the most out of this story, it helps to be familiar with the horror slasher films of old, and their many sequels and crossovers, where an unimaginably horrible killer bloodily slaughters just about everybody before the last girl standing finally defeats him. Lynnette Tarkington survived her ordeal twenty two years ago and now attends monthly support group meetings with five other final girl survivors. Lynnette is not living her best life ever