by Riley Sager
Publisher – Ebury Publishing
Release Date – 13 July 2017
Buy – Amazon | Book DepositoryEach 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.
I mistook this book for YA completely but you know want I loved that I did. It’s like it’s a book wrapped up, you don’t know what it is until you read it. This is book is a psychological thriller, an adult psychological thriller and you know what I bloody loved it!
It begins, on a weekend in the forest, Quincy and her friends stayed in Pine Cottage, one night it turned into something sinister and brutal. chilling. Him, had a knife and slashed through her friends one by one, until she was left. With 3 stabs wounds, she ran for her life, for an escape, into the arms of her survivor. On that night she became a Final Girl! There is only 3 Finals Girls, Lisa, Samantha and herself, Quincy. On the night of their traumas, the papers named them the Final Girls and now they have to live with that for the rest of their lives. It isn’t until Lisa ends up dead that Quincy thinks she could be next…
After her traumatic experience, Quincey has locked it away, she can’t remember what happened during the attack, before and after is fine, but leading up to it, it draws a blur. Told from two perspectives, present day and the night of Pine Cottage, it unfolds as Quincey gets flashbacks to the most terrifying night of her life.
What I loved about this book was the unknown of it all, the writing, the characters, the plot. Everything and that’s what kept me hooked. Page after page, it was a race to know what happened to her, to Quincey but also to Lisa. I loved that I was fooled by this book and these characters by Coop, the officer that saved and supported her throughout her life, Sam, the second Final Girl – there is something suspicious about her and even Quincey, her character slowly unraveled from being this neat, organised and controlled cooking blogger to in a way a madwoman – but I don’t really blame her. Her whole life has been monopolised and trained about her being a Final Girl and it’s about time she finally opened up and let it all out.
This being my first book into this genre, I’ve totally surprised myself. Riley said to me on Twitter that the genre has missed me, well if I’m honest I missed the genre completely, never for a second did I think to pick one up. It’s amazing when a book like this lands on your doorstep…literally. Final Girls, is an addictive, horrifyingly chilling debut novel from Riley Sager. Each page feels like your heart is pounding with anticipation. If you’ve never thought about this genre before, or fancied reading something like that, but are curious, then I suggest you read this one first, it will open your eyes to this genre and more. Take it from someone who knows.
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Riley Sager is a pseudonym for an author who has been previously published under another name. A native of Pennsylvania, Riley is a writer, editor and graphic designer who now lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
Riley’s first novel, FINAL GIRLS (called “The first great thriller of 2017” by Stephen King), will be published in 2017 in the United States, the United Kingdom and more than a dozen countries around the world.
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