Final Girls
Three Girls. Three Tragedies. One Unthinkable Secret
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4.1 • 137 Ratings
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- £1.99
Publisher Description
TO SURVIVE A KILLER, YOU NEED A KILLER'S INSTINCT
An unbelievably gripping psychological thriller to keep you awake at night full of twists you'll NEVER see coming. Perfect for fans of C.L. Taylor's The Fear and Karin Slaughter's The Good Daughter
'If you liked GONE GIRL, you'll like this' Stephen King
Three girls. Three tragedies. One unthinkable secret.
The media calls them the Final Girls – Quincy, Sam, Lisa – the infamous group that no one wants to be part of. The sole survivors of three separate killing sprees, they are linked by their shared trauma.
But when Lisa dies in mysterious circumstances and Sam shows up unannounced on her doorstep, Quincy must admit that she doesn’t really know anything about the other Final Girls. Can she trust them? Or can there only ever be one?
All Quincy knows is one thing: she is next.
An addictive thriller to keep you turning the pages late at night. Fans of In a Dark Dark Wood by Ruth Ware, The Girl Before by JP Delaney and Sweet Little Lies by Caz Frear will love Final Girls.
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Why readers are loving thrilling psychological suspense novel FINAL GIRLS
'I was drawn into this intense story from the very first page until the tremendously gripping end - unputdownable and addictive' Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars
'This is an atmospheric thriller I couldn't stop reading. A brilliant and gripping read' Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars
'I devoured this one in two sittings. Could not put it down and the author dropped in some fantastic twists I never saw coming' Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A final girl is the one left standing at the end of a horror movie. Riley Sager’s thriller revolves around Quincy Carpenter, the lone survivor of a gruesome killing spree in a remote forest cabin. Quincy’s desperately trying to live a normal life with her lawyer boyfriend, but the past—and her connection to two other women who eluded deranged murderers—keeps getting in the way. We tore through Final Girls in a weekend, delighted by its satisfying surprises and scares.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Quincy "Quinn" Carpenter, the heroine of Sager's uneven thriller debut, and five college friends spend a weekend in the Pennsylvania woods at the remote Pine Cottage, where a knife-wielding maniac kills everyone but her. She is only spared because Officer Cooper ("Coop") shoots the culprit. Quinn, who remembers no details, isn't the only lone survivor of such a massacre around the same time: Lisa Milner survives a sorority house attack, and Samantha Boyd fights off a motel killer. Lisa is the only one of the three who embraces the media's "final girl" label a trope familiar to horror movie buffs, referring to the girl who survives the bloodbath and even writes a book about her experience. Quinn wants nothing to do with her fellow "girls," and 10 years later has settled down in Manhattan with a boyfriend, a baking blog, and lots of Xanax. Then Coop shows up and tells Quinn that Lisa is dead, and the nightmare starts anew. Sager does a good job building suspense, but some readers may find the book's themes of casual male power and female subservience after trauma deeply unsettling.
Customer Reviews
Great read
Thoroughly enjoyed this book, I was hooked right from the start and didn’t at all predict the big twist. I was actually quite shocked by it. I really enjoyed the writing style, my first book by this author and I will definitely be reading more
what in the world
um im not really sure what i just read. i agree with some other reviews ive seen saying not much happened in the book for a long time. i think it was some kind of forced character development but overall i think the main character quincy stayed the same mostly throughout the whole book, she was just a flawed character who constantly made bad decisions. i saw someone on social media say they would like to slap all the characters in this book & i would like to do the same. i didn't like any of them.
Brilliant book!!
Well worth the read as well as Sagers second offering The Last Time I Lied. I’m a very fussy reader and thoroughly enjoyed both books.