Final Girls
by Riley Sager
Published by Dutton Books
on July 11, 2017
Genre: Adult, Horror, Thriller
Length: 342 pages
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Literary Awards:
Litsy Award for Horror (2017)
Goodreads Choice Award for Horror (2017)
ITW Thriller Award for Best Novel (2018)
Synopsis:
Ten years ago, college student Quincy Carpenter went on vacation with five friends and came back alone, the only survivor of a horror-movie scale massacre. In an instant, she became a member of a club no one wants to belong to--a group of similar survivors known in the press as the Final Girls. There was Lisa, and Sam, and now Quincy. The three girls are all attempting to put their nightmares behind them...
That is, until Lisa, the first Final Girl, is found dead in her bathtub, and Sam, the second, appears on Quincy's doorstep.
My Thoughts:
Quincy Carpenter finally has her life together years after the Pine Cottage Massacre that she was the sole survivor of. She spends her days sharing her cute baked goods on social media and almost never thinks of herself as a Final Girl, that is until her good friend, Coop--the cop that saved her from Him ten years before--makes the long journey to inform her of another Final Girl--Lisa--'s suicide. Shortly after, the elusive second Final Girl, Sam, shows up on Quincy's doorstep and though she kind of always dreamed of being friends with the others, she quickly finds that being a Final Girl has it's ultimate ups and downs.
This debut novel from Riley Sager has a great mix of horror and mystery thriller with a twist ending that will blow you away. Our MC survived the group stabbing of her college friends at Pine Cottage and is now known as a Final Girl. She's fine with it. Nbd. But when Sam, another Final Girl who has avoided the press for years, shows up on her doorstep, they become quick friends. But Sam wants Quincy to remember that night at Pine Cottage, and she just might do anything to get her to.
This is my third Sager novel and I'm a little disappointed that I didn't jump on this author's books from the start because they are all so good! I surprisingly went into this without having anything spoiled for me after years of seeing it on Bookstagram and while the beginning was a little slow to get into, I finally get why there was so much hype surrounding this when it released. He's quickly becoming a favorite and I plan on reading his other two novels in the next few months!
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