{"product_id":"the-final-girl-support-group-by-grady-hendrix-9781789096064","title":"The Final Girl Support Group","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn horror movies, the final girl is the one who's left standing when the credits roll. The one who fought back, defeated the killer, and avenged her friends. The one who emerges bloodied but victorious. But after the sirens fade and the audience moves on, what happens to her?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLynnette Tarkington is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre twenty-two years ago, and it has defined every day of her life since. And she's not alone. For decades she's been meeting with five other actual final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, putting their lives back together, piece by piece. That is until one of the women misses a meeting and Lynnette's worst fears are realised - someone knows about the group and is determined to take their lives apart again, piece by piece.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut the thing about these final girls is that they have each other now, and no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife...they will never, ever give up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Final Girl Support Group\u003c\/i\u003e sizzles with action, originality, and a gleaming concept sharp as a scalpel.\u003c\/b\u003e - Charlaine Harris, \u003ci\u003e#1 New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePray for morning, wish for speed, and be as quiet as you can, it doesn't matter - Grady Hendrix's \u003ci\u003eThe Final Girl Support Group\u003c\/i\u003e already knows where you live and breathe.\u003c\/b\u003e - Stephen Graham Jones, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Only Good Indians\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Final Girl Support Group\u003c\/i\u003e is funny, scary, and a roaring good time. Grady Hendrix puts his own spin on final girls and I loved it.\u003c\/b\u003e - Samantha Downing, \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eMy Lovely Wife\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTake slasher movie adoration, critique, and satire, mix with compelling, flawed characters and neck-breaking plot twists, and drop it all into an industrial blender with large blades. Voilà, you now have Grady's maniacally clever and compulsively readable \u003ci\u003eThe Final Girl Support Group\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e - Paul Tremblay, national bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eSurvivor Song\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Final Girl Support Group\u003c\/i\u003e is a deft examination of how our culture's obsession with misogynistic violence destroys the lives of women and how those women are able to keep fighting and living after unthinkable trauma. The beating heart of this book is empathy and it's set into a lightning-paced, vicious thriller. Reading it was a catharsis. Absolutely unmissable. Horror fans...you've never read a slasher like this.\u003c\/b\u003e - Mallory O'Meara, national bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Lady from the Black Lagoon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eThe Final Girl Support Group\u003c\/i\u003e Grady Hendrix transforms a horror trope into something bloody original. An incisive examination of society's obsession with violence against women that simultaneously honours and roasts the slasher genre with equal prowess. Wildly entertaining and clever as hell.\u003c\/b\u003e - Rachel Harrison, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Return\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e...a wonderfully suspenseful and darkly comic novel that cleverly subverts popular culture. Horror fans will be wowed.\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003ci\u003ePublisher's Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47599428763884,"sku":"9781789096064","price":44.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781789096064-the-final-girl-support-group.jpg?v=1777978177","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-final-girl-support-group-by-grady-hendrix-9781789096064","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}