Final Girls

Goodreads Description

Each girl survived an unthinkable horror. Now someone wants them dead... They were the victims of separate massacres. Three strangers bound by similar traumas grouped together by the press. When something terrible happens to Lisa, put-together Quincy and volatile Sam finally meet. Each one influences the other. Each one has dark secrets. And after the bloodstained fingers of the past reach into the present, each one will never be the same.

My Review

This one definitely got off to a sluggish start. By the time I was 50 pages in, I realised that not a lot had happened. The reader is given some background info on the Final Girls, and how one is classified as a Final Girl, but the story hadn't yet kicked off. And then I got 100 pages in, and I found myself reading just one more page before turning out my bedside light. And then I got 150 pages in and I was totally unwilling to put the book down! By then, I was totally and utterly gripped.

Quincy is getting on with her life after surviving a mad killer. She's put the past behind her, she has a successful baking blog and she has a wonderful boyfriend. Life is on track, and although she is unable to forget the past and the events that took place at Pine Cottage, she has moved on. And then Sam arrives on the scene. Suddenly, the past has come back to haunt her. For the reader, this is a good thing as Sam's arrival speeds things up a lot. It's from this moment on that the story picks up pace, and the book becomes rather difficult to put down.

Looking back, I'm actually rather glad that the beginning was slow. And I can see the necessity for the slow start. It was important to show the reader who Quincy is, who her friends are and the type of people they all are, what their characters are like. It leads to a greater shock factor later on in the story.

I must also mention that this author has a real talent. I thought that her writing style was fantastic. It was solid, quality writing that I loved. I toyed with whether to award 5 stars to this book because I thought it was a great thriller, but at the end of the day, 4 stars just feels more right. I loved this one Bookworms, and I highly recommend it. If, like me, you find the beginning slow, push on. It's worth it!

My Rating: * * * *

Publication Date: August 2017 (South Africa)

Genre: Thriller

Format: Trade Paperback

Source: Review copy received from the publisher. Many thanks to author, Riley Sager and Penguin Random House SA for my copy. It was my pleasure to read and review this title.