Final Girls

Final Girls by Riley Sager

Plot: 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. 

Now, with the help of her Xanax prescription and no memory of the events that happened ten years ago Quincy is doing well.  That is until Lisa, the first Final Girl, is found dead in her bathtub, wrists slit, and Sam, the second, appears on Quincy's doorstep.

My thoughts:  From the first page this book draws you in, opening with Quincy running through the forest, soaked with blood, after surviving the Pine Cottage murders.  The story is told from Quincy's point of view and is interspersed with present day and memories of Pine Cottage, little snippets making the suspense of finding out what happened all those years ago even stronger.   Without giving too much away, Riley Sager did a great job at making me go from despising certain characters and sympathizing them within a moment's notice, and vice versa.  Just when I think I have the mystery solved a new wrench is thrown in the works and my mind is left spinning, trying to add new information to the equation.  The plot never quite goes the way you expect it to and, if you like fast paced novels with plenty of action and good characters, you'll definitely enjoy this.

Rating: 4.5/5