Unfortunately, this was possibly my least favorite Grady Hendrix book so far. Now on the run, Lynnette has to try and figure out who to trust as revelations about her own history are made public and survival instincts kick in causing many of her friends to betray one another. Soon, Lynette begins to suspect that all of them are being targeted by a killer intent on taking out all the Final Girls. The group quickly realizes that she is dead and that one of their personal monsters finally won. However, one day Lynnette’s worst fear comes to pass when one of the other girls fails to turn up.

Several of the Final Girls including Lynette have now come together to work through their trauma at a monthly support group. She lives alone with only a single houseplant for company, a cage fitted around her front door, and an obsessive routine that involves only leaving her home when absolutely necessary, doubling and tripling back on herself to avoid being followed, and keeping multiple escape routes permanently in place. Lynnette is a Final Girl, one of many young women who share the same traumatic story, each one the sole survivor of a massacre that has now been made into a movie franchise. In The Final Girl Support Group, we meet Lynnette Tarkington, the sole survivor of a massacre that took place twenty-two years earlier. Grady Hendrix is slowly becoming one of my favorite horror/thriller authors, and also wrote one of my top books of 2020 ( The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires), so when I heard he had a new book out this summer it was an instant must-read for me.

The Final Girl Support Group Cover Image, Titan Books The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix All author and illustrator images are credited to themselves. Please note: This post contains affiliate links. If you can’t wait until next week’s post for more, why not check out our previous roundups? Links are at the bottom of the post.

Today’s roundup is all adult novels, so keep reading to see seven terrifying tales suitable for older readers only. This post is the fourth and final post for 2021, so don’t forget to check out the picture books, middle-grade, and YA roundups from the previous three weeks. Once again, spooky season is upon us, and that means it’s time for the GeekMom Halloween Reading Roundup.

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