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A review by jessica42980
The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
dark
fast-paced
- Loveable characters? No
2.0
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This review will appear on my site on October 8, 2021.
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Despite not really being a Grady Hendrix fan, in the spirit of Halloween I gave the audiobook a listen, but like his others, it did not agree with me. The premise has something to it: What happens to ‘final girls’ after the headlines end? All the final girls are reminiscent of final girls from the slasher movies of the 1980s and 1990s.
For me, what happens with these final girls is that they are all beyond messed up! I did not form any attachment to any of the final girls, so when things happened to them, I did not real-ly feel anything. We do get details of what Lynnette survived and it is very brutal in a jaw dropping way.
This novel did get me thinking about Neve Campbell’s character Sydney in the Scream mov-ies: She survived multiple attacks by multiple killers so how messed up would she be in ‘real life’??? Also Jamie Lee Curtis in the Halloween movies, yep, she’s a total Final Girl! And we get new movies in both of those series relatively soon.
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This review will appear on my site on October 8, 2021.
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Despite not really being a Grady Hendrix fan, in the spirit of Halloween I gave the audiobook a listen, but like his others, it did not agree with me. The premise has something to it: What happens to ‘final girls’ after the headlines end? All the final girls are reminiscent of final girls from the slasher movies of the 1980s and 1990s.
For me, what happens with these final girls is that they are all beyond messed up! I did not form any attachment to any of the final girls, so when things happened to them, I did not real-ly feel anything. We do get details of what Lynnette survived and it is very brutal in a jaw dropping way.
This novel did get me thinking about Neve Campbell’s character Sydney in the Scream mov-ies: She survived multiple attacks by multiple killers so how messed up would she be in ‘real life’??? Also Jamie Lee Curtis in the Halloween movies, yep, she’s a total Final Girl! And we get new movies in both of those series relatively soon.