Final Girls
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3.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
What if you could fix the worst parts of yourself by confronting your worst fears?
Dr. Jennifer Webb has invented proprietary virtual reality technology that purports to heal psychological wounds by running clients through scenarios straight out of horror movies and nightmares. In a carefully controlled environment, with a medical cocktail running through their veins, sisters might develop a bond they’ve been missing their whole lives—while running from the bogeyman through a simulated forest. But…can real change come so easily?
Esther Hoffman doubts it. Esther has spent her entire journalism career debunking pseudoscience, after phony regression therapy ruined her father’s life. She’s determined to unearth the truth about Dr. Webb’s budding company. Dr. Webb’s willing to let her, of course, for reasons of her own. What better advertisement could she get than that of a convinced skeptic? But Esther’s not the only one curious about how this technology works. Enter real-world threats just as frightening as those created in the lab. Dr. Webb and Esther are at odds, but they may also be each other’s only hope of survival.
With her new novella Final Girls, bestselling, award-winning author Mira Grant has conjured a heart-stopping, gut-wrenching story filled with as many twists as it is versions of reality. Grant offers a chilling exploration of how surviving horrors might define us all.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Grant (Rise) delivers her trademark combo of unflinching horror and heartily genuine characters in this contemporary science fiction novella. Esther Hoffman is a reporter with a traumatic past. She's determined to expose Dr. Jennifer Webb as a charlatan and her new virtual reality assisted therapy as fraud. In pursuit of the story, Esther agrees to undergo the procedure, which can rewrite an individual's emotional landscape, building false memories of intimate lifelong relationships over the course of a few treatments. The two antagonistic women become fast friends in the virtual middle school environment. When an act of corporate espionage interferes with their session, Esther and Jennifer must navigate an unanticipated gauntlet of horrors, including high school mean girls turned violent and the risen dead. Zombie fans will find the tale satisfyingly inside their niche; it's fast-paced and deftly wrapped up. Others might be disappointed to see an intriguing premise diverted into such well-trod territory.
