This is not one of my favorites of his. I think he leaned so hard into building out the trope that he neglected character development. I just never cared about any of the characters so never got invested in the story. ( )

Fast pace with lots of twists and turns until the end. ( )

https://tamaranth.blogspot.com/2024/01/2024016-final-girl-support-group-grady.ht... ( )

In my own personal opinion, this book is garbage. It is the most graphic, viscious and depraved book that I've ever read.
The only reason that I read it was because it was a gift box book. I am sure that there are fans of the horror genre that have read this and enjoyed it, and I am sorry to disagree with them. I read it to the end, even as difficult as it was, and am kind of glad that I did as the end was the only tiny flicker of light in the entire book. The descriptions of the slayings are so horrendous that I am afraid I skipped through most of them. The characters are a depraved and vicious lot. At some primal level, I can understand how anyone that had gone through and seen the horrors that these girls have lived through would forever be scarred and unable to function normally. It is the most extreme form of PTSD that there is. That at least came through loud and clear in this book. Each of the victims had their own coping mechanisms, and each relied on their group therapy to help them through it. That all makes sense, but to have to live through what each of them saw and experienced was too much for me. I know there are monsters in this world, but I don't have to get to know them as well as I came to know the monsters in this book. ( )

I finished this yesterday and I've been thinking a lot about it since then. I have mixed feelings about this one. While I understand what the author was trying to do here and I liked the concept & the themes/message he was trying to get across, I don't think it was executed as well as it could have been. I also have some issues with the "diversity" in this book as some of the characters, especially the only black final girl character in this book being treated as a token minority character, and falls into some harmful stereotypes. I'll probably do a video analysis of this book on my channel sometime in the future, and discuss more about the "diverse characters" and what I liked about some of them, and what I thought should have been changed.

This was the first book I've read by this author, but I've heard a lot of great things about his other books, especially the vampire bookclub one, so I will give those a try sometime. Hopefully, I like those more, but one thing I'll say about this one is whether you love it or hate it or fall somewhere in between, I do think it gets you thinking about a lot of things and I think it's a book that will stick with most people for a long time (whether good or bad), so I can appreciate that about it.