#final girl support group

[alittlebitofwonk]

@bonesandthebees has me thinking about book recs, so I’m posting some of my favorites in case anyone wants something new to read!

FANTASY

Priory of the Orange Tree: This is a BRICK of a book. The hardcover would make a good weapon. But it’s also an incredibly good read. A well built fantasy world, dragons, sapphic romance, and it centers WOC characters. The prequel, A Day of Fallen Night, is also amazing.

Legends and Lattes: This is such a cozy little book! It’s fantasy, sent in a DND inspired world where a retired orc mercenary opens a coffee shop. Also, sapphic romance side plot. It’s very cute.

A Thousand Steps Into Night: A Japanese folklore inspired novel where the protagonist must make bargains with spirits to avoid becoming a demon. I learned a lot about Japanese legends and folklore in this one, and the protagonist, Miuko, is just so earnest and lovable.

SCI-FI

Project Hail Mary: Andy Weir does it again. A fantastic novel featuring a struggle across the galaxy to save earth as we know it, the most endearing alien EVER, really cool futuristic science, and a reminder that humanity also instills in us all a sense of good.

The Kaiju Preservation Society: This book is so much fuuuun. It’s just a blast. Inter dimensional travel, giant monsters, conservation, and a protagonist that had me cackling with laughter the whole time.

MYSTERY/THRILLER

The Final Girl Support Group: When the survivors of several horror-movie esque massacres are all targeted by a new killer, how will they survive? A really awesome story about a bunch of badass middle aged women who kinda hate each other teaming up to identify their would-be killer… before it’s too late.

Gone Girl: Nick Dunne didn’t kill his wife. He has no idea where she is, or what happened, and he swears he didn’t hurt her… but no one really believes him. Meanwhile, the truth is far more interesting, and a testament to the phrase “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” This is THE female rage story.

#book recs #priory of the orange tree #day of fallen night #a thousand steps into night #project hail mary #the kaiju preservation society #legends and lattes #final girl support group #Gone Girl

[narcissistcookbook]

short book review, The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix

I liked most of this a lot. The protagonist is a bunch of fun to follow around, there were some genuinely creepy bits and a couple of twists that caught me out. Unfortunately the story is let down by the very ending - the last three chapters felt half-baked.

Major spoilers after the break:

The triple twist about the killers got me. I thought I was smart for guessing it was Skye early on, but then I didn't bother thinking beyond that conclusion and was effectively sideswiped by Steph being in on it as well.

The whole finale though - from Steph driving away from a dying Lynnette, up through the arrival at Red Lake, to confronting the killers, and the final chapter - was so disappointing.

I loved that I kept finding out about the narrator's dirty secrets as the story unfolded. There was a point where I wondered if she'd been behind it.

The fakeout of Lynnette abandoning Steph at Chrissy's place fully got me and part of me wishes Hendrix had pulled the trigger on it, but it was fine that he didn't. After 3/4s of a novel spent finding out that the main character is kinda shit and useless, that would have been a fully earned twist.

The killers-using-guns subversion was deeply uninteresting - I get what Hendrix was trying to do I think, but guns don't belong in that world. They undo all the tension. I know Hendrix understands this because he explains it earlier in the story, so having the final confrontation be Lynnette running away from a dude with a machine gun felt totally out of touch. The observation the story implies is

"well why did you want a sequence full of brutal slayings, hmmm? what does that say about you? aren't you part of the problem?"

and like fuck off you know? I have a strong dislike for that kind of meta buck-passing. I'm reading the book because I enjoy spooks and grissliness, don't try and high road me about that right at the end.

Red Lake didn't feel like it made any sense as a setting for the finale either. It had little to no resonation with or meaning to the main character.

Given that Chrissy was the mirror image of Lynnette, Chrissy's murder museum would have been a better setting for a finale wouldn't it? Scream 6 ended up doing something like that two years after this book was published.

Heather was an interesting but underexplored character, and her reveal that there was probably something supernatural going on with her story was fun. Although I felt a little too spin-off baited by the last mention of her.

I'm not as down on as it as I sound. I enjoyed the book, I'm just sad that the ending was almost entirely botched because if the landing had been stuck it would have been a great story.

#grady hendrix #final girl support group #short book review

[every-character-ever-poll]

LYNETTE TARKINGTON - The Final Girl Support Group

PROPAGANDA:

She's paranoid, she's unhinged, she's right, she's awful, she's justified, she has one (1) friend and he's a plant called Final Plant, she's violent, she's awkward, she's a middle-aged loser and I love her so much

#poll #lynette tarkington #final girl support group #the final girl support group #image included #has propaganda #week one

[greenvillainredemption]

I’m halfway through final girl support group and,, is lynette autistic? Some of the other characters call her names of bad autism/disability representation (ex. rain man, forrest gump) as insults, but nothing she actually does herself screams autism to me, except maybe naming and talking to her plant (she got that attachment/humanization of objects babeyy) but that could also just be a trauma thing so ?? Also like I said I haven’t finished it yet, but at halfway you’d think it’d be confirmed? But what’s with those specific references if she’s not autistic or otherwise disabled yknow? Am I missing something?

#I may have jumped the gun and got all excited n told my sister the book had an autistic protag #horror #actually autistic #final girl support group #grady hendrix #bookblr #but good news there’s other good rep that feels real and not forced or like patronizing #one woman is a wheelchair user and another is a butch lesbian which like I never see #maybe it’s more common in book form but in tv and movies and stuff I’ve never really seen actual butches #tv lesbians usually just look the same as the other straight characters. nothing wrong with a more girly girl lesbian but #where are the butches?????? the rep is very very skewed #please let the tv adaptation I’ve read is confirmed keep her butch swag 😔 #my words

[waldeswogen]

Hace poco terminé ésta joya a la que le tenía muchas ganas...pero tengo sentimientos encontrados con el final...ustedes ya lo leyeron?

#book review #bookish #book #bookworm #reseña #male reader #reader #lector #grady hendrix #final girl support group #readers of tumblr #readers

[oosahwtf]

For our second book for Book Club @zxromance chose Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix. I wasn’t very into this book so my report likely won’t be very in depth on this one as I don’t feel I have much to add. There also will not be any major spoilers in this report.

Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix is sort of a thriller novel based on the final girl trope from slasher movies. A final girl is the last girl left alive in a horror movie/book. There are some trigger warnings for murder, suicide, and general gore. It wasn’t very triggering or sad although the main characters are entirely consumed and driven by PTSD. It was a very easy read vocabulary wise but I found the characters so insufferable that I had to put the book down multiple times. The first half of the book was super annoying to me and didn’t really make a lot of sense, but the second half was pretty good.

I’ll start with my positives about the book although there isn’t a lot to say. I did enjoy the pacing as it was very fast moving and there was constantly something important happening. Although most of the plot was extremely predictable there was a nice little twist at the end that I did enjoy. I think this story would be a lot more enjoyable if told through a movie or tv show.

I have quite a bit of criticisms about this novel but I’ll try not to give too much detail as I don’t want to include spoilers. I found the characters so unlikeable and unrelatable that the book was almost unreadable for me. The only reason I didn’t put it down immediately was because of book club. I typically enjoy having an unlikeable main character if there is a purpose to it but I just felt there was no reason for how horribly annoying the characters were. I also felt a few events happened in the plot that didn’t really make sense and were completely unnecessary. Overall, I really liked the concept of this novel but I felt that it wasn’t well executed and would do better as visual media.

#bookblr #books and novels #novels #book review #book report #book club #thriller #slashers #suspense #grady hendrix #final girl #slasher #90s horror #horror books #final girl support group

[max-imumbooks]

I know I owe you guys thoughts on The Excalibur Curse, but wanted to get the word out that I'm listening to the Final Girl Support Group, and it is definitely one of those books that if your mind wanders for even a second, things happen and you have to rewind to catch back up.

Probably should switch to digital reader for this one, but oh well.

#final girl support group #so far so good

[swampfoxe]

Finally got a chance to read The Final Girl Support Group and I cannot imagine the mind maps that Grady Hendrix had on his wall connecting a character's name to the pet of a niece of a character in a sitcom who played the mom of another character played by the actress who played the final girl in the in-movie slasher of a slasher based on a real world serial killer who had the same kind of pet.

Also, I think this book is a great example of a plot and character that actually warrant first person present tense (usually something I have a hard time with, and I'm kinda mad this made me react to the first few chapters when they didn't deserve it).

Would highly recommend.

#final girl support group #this is barely an exaggeration #grady hendrix

[triplethreat77]

In Texas it's been around 100 degrees for a week or so, and today I promised myself I wouldn't do the most.

Floor time with the bunnies, reading Final Girl Support Group, laying on my velvet Calcifer plush - in a heavily air conditioned room with no extra lights on.

Also as you've not experienced petting my bunnies, they are Valhalla-god-level soft. Impossible-fiction-make-believe type soft. We're sharing strawberries, and they're delicious.

#unconditional love #bunnies #adopt bunnies #rabbit #alternative #holland lop #bunnycore #rabbitcore #self care #Valhalla #strawberries #final girl support group #final girl #floor time #texas #summer #me #mine

[vavuska]

Two similar books about similar themes: Final Girls by Riley Sager and The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix.

The biggest differences between the two is its approach to the horrors which created their respective Final Girls:

Riley Sager creates his own horrors, even if he cherry picked elements from the genre, those elements are based in realistic setting;

Grady Hendrix made his monsters variations on famous cinematic slashers translated into a more believable world.

Also there is a vast difference between their protagonist and the way in which they coped the horrors they survived:

Grady Hendrix's Lynette has deep in paranoia: she lives in fortress of an apartment, cut-off from all but the support group and constantly paranoid at the threat of death around her at all times. She also feels unwelcome in her support group, because the others don't regard her as a real “final girl” but merely a victim who survived;

Riley Sager's Quincy is trying her damn best to lead a sunny, cheery, normal life, and thanks to Xanax and grape soda, she is largely successful. She hosts growing baking vlog and has a loving fiancée who is moving upward at his law firm.

Which I enjoyed more?

Definitely Final Girls by Riley Sager!

The story is more original, even if I loved to recognize the famous horror movies in Grady Hendrix's book, I think this is a lazy solution;

I found Quincy more likable than Lynette. Both have problems trusting others and asking for helps, but Quincy denial of her trauma is more easy to read. Lynette's desire of being accepted and her maniacal search for help into people have mistreated her since the beginning is really annoying;

Even if the book seems to be slow, it's revelations doesn't seems as casual, chaotic and unpredictable as happens in Grady Hendrix's book, and at the end you will find your jaw on the floor.

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[slashmeharderdaddy]

Unpopular Opinion: Grady Hendrix isn’t all that good. He tends to have a cool concept and a strong beginning, but his execution is overall just meh. I’ve bought and read two of his books (My Best Friend’s Exorcism and Final Girl Support Group) and gave away both after finishing them.

#the heroine in FGSG isn’t even a final girl #grady hendrix #final girl support group #my best friends exorcism

[norelationtoatticus]

✨️2022 Favorites!✨️

Slowly (very slowly) but surely getting back into reading, and these were some of my favorite reads of 2022! (Not counting picture books...most of what I read this year was picture books lol)

🐺 Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves, by Meg Long

🐙 Remarkably Bright Creatures, by Shelby Van Pelt

🔪 Final Girl Support Group, by Grady Hendrix

Not pictured, but also favorites:

💜 The Queer Principles of Kit Webb and The Fantastic Crimes of Marian Hayes by Cat Sebastian (ughhh the pacing of these books just understood me on a visceral level, such perfection)

And my favorite audio book of the year:

❤ A Kiss From A Knave, by Leslie Kelly (the audio book just came out a few weeks ago, and is amazing!!)

It's funny, I typically prefer to read ebooks. But this year, trying to rebuild time for reading into my life, I found it easier to lock into a physical copy again. This year was the first time in ages I read a hardcover.

My goal for next year is just to keep it going and read a bit more!

#am reading #books #reading #booklr #bookblr #book recs 2022 #book recommendations #best of 2022 #favorite books of 2022 #favorite reads #2022 reads #2022 books #cold the night fast the wolves #remarkably bright creatures #final girl support group

[dilfdarthvader]

just finished 'final girl support group' by grady hendrix and am craving more like this, soooo if y'all have any suggestions pls let me know 👀

#final girl support group #personal #i am in my reading era #alex reads books #<- guess that's my books tag now

[naquey]

the brain rot is brain rotting, except it won't let me write my other fics

#drake and josh #drake parker #josh nichols #final girl support group #slasher fic #ao3 #ao3 fanfiction #ao3 fic #fanfiction #fanfic #fic #drake & josh

[kjudgemental]

The Southern Book Club's Guide To Slaying Vampires - Horror Novel Review

Author: Grady Hendrix Publisher: Quirk Books Country: USA Year: 2020 The last novel of Hendrix before his move to Titan Books for his next release (which would be The Final Girl Support Group) is, as he states in the introduction, a kind of companion piece for My Best Friend’s Exorcism, taking a look at the adventure of parenthood as opposed to the troubles of the teenage years. Here our…

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[the-literate-worm]

So... Grady Hendrix's "Final Girl Support Group" makes me feel... I don't know. I'm half way through and I still can't decide if I like it or not or if I even want to finish it.

I loved his other work, but this one leaves me kind of hanging by a thread in the worst way. I'm constantly wondering " how many pages do I have left in this chapter" and checking to see how much book I have left. I don't know. It's just not doing it for me.

I hate not finishing books and very rarely will I just not finish a book, but I honestly feel like I could put this down and forget about it. Ugh.

#grady hendrix #final girl #final girl support group #book #bookish #bookworm #book blog #spilled thoughts #booklr #reading #currently reading