Chatting Books Online Year 2, Day 128. Today’s featured book is:The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix.
With a blend of seat of your pants slasher horror and darkly funny campyness in The Final Girl Support Group author Gradyn Hendrix once again deftly blends these two seemingly dissimilar genres.
Last summer Grady Hendrix gave us a similar darky funny / forror blend in The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires . This summer he brings us the story of a group of Final Girls. What is a "Final Girl" you may ask? You know how when you are watching a slasher movie it starts out with a big group of friends at the summer camp, or the late night party in the woods, or spending the night in a haunted house on a dare and one by one everyone is killed off....except one final girl who manages to best the beast and get away? You ever wonder what becomes of that Final Girl after the movie rights are sold off, the cousin of the original killer tries to come back for revenge, and the movie rights are sold off again? They become what is known as a "Final Girl" and there is actually a support group to help them get over the trauma . This book is about that group - and maybe the new slasher(s) who come back yet again.
This edge of the seat funny thriller is currently available in hardcover, it is 352 pages, and sells for $26.00 a copy . While you are in the store picking it up you may want a copy of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Vampire Slaying as well , it is currently available in paperback and it is pretty funny too. My review of that one was way back on Day 42 in year 1 of Chatting Books Online last April in case you want to flip back through and read that review as well.
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