The Final Girl Support Group

De: Grady Hendrix

Narrado por: Adrienne King

Duración: 13 h y 49 m

Resumen del Editor

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

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“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)

Loved the story but....

The narrator was very distracting. Would probably be better to read this one. The story itself was good, however.

Book is great, narration not so much

I was going to purchase a hard copy and read it but I had a credit so I thought why not. Now I know not to buy an audiobook without checking the narration first. Its so weird and over the top really takes you out of the story. I regret getting this as an audio book because it could have been so much better reading it on my own.

Girl, Buckle In. This Narrator is on Some...

Oh girl.
If you picture the protagonist as someone who has smoked since birth and is a little high, then the narrator is a *perfect* fit. However, if you've pictured the protagonist as the author describes her (a veritable badass in great shape) then you'll probably be left scratching your head as to why she sounds like your local grocery cashier who eats cigarettes and "don't read much". Seriously, follow the reviews on this one. If a terrible narrator kills it for you, this one may be a pass.

liked not loved. Had high hopes

liked the book not loved. At somepoints i got bored. overall good book. Just wish was more horror.

Good story

It's good story, but a little preachy. The performance isn't has bad as people say. Though there were some characters voices that King couldn't capture effectively, which could be irksome.

Overall, very entertaining

I really enjoy this author’s books, and I docked this a star because it took a while to get going and came to a screeching halt with 4 hours to go. It ended strongly once that dull hour ended.

A beautiful love letter to slashers

If you’re a fan of 80’s slashers, look no further than this novel. Each chapter oozes with a plethora of slasher references, and each timeless classic serves as an origin for all of the final girls. The narration adds a layer of even further immersion.

Absolutely recommended for fans of the slasher/horror genre.

Not my favorite

I have liked all of Grady Hendrix‘s books so far, but this is not my favorite.

Not bad

Not a horrible story but definitely not what I expected. It was a fun listen but the narrator was pretty bad. Had to speed the playback up to make her tolerable.

Long chapters or sections.

I might have enjoyed it more if it was broken up into a few chapters for each. Long sessions to listen to and I would lose interest throughout. If I read along as I listened to it might have been better. Performance and reading was good! Just very long.