Final Girls
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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Quincy is the last surviving final girl of a college massacre a decade ago. When one of the other final girls dies and the second shows up at her door, the past she has carefully buried starts crawling back.
Multiple novels share this title. The most commonly searched is Final Girls by Riley Sager (2017), a thriller about three women who survived separate massacres. Another is The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix (2021), about a group therapy of slasher-movie survivors.
Riley Sager's Final Girls is a thriller with horror-adjacent themes drawn from the slasher film tradition. Grady Hendrix's The Final Girl Support Group is more direct horror satire. Both engage with the final girl trope from horror movies.
Final Girls is 352 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Final Girls takes most readers 5 to 8 hours to finish.
Final Girls is a standalone novel by Grady Hendrix, not part of a series.
Final Girls is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
