THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER “If you liked Gone Girl, you’ll like this.”—Stephen King Ten years ago, six friends went on vacation. One made it out alive…. In that instant, college student Quincy Carpenter became a member of a very exclusive club—a group of survivors the press dubbed “The Final Girls”: Lisa, who lost nine sorority sisters to a college dropout’s knife; Sam, who … to a college dropout’s knife; Sam, who endured the Sack Man during her shift at the Nightlight Inn; and now Quincy, who ran bleeding through the woods to escape the massacre at Pine Cottage. Despite the media’s attempts, the three girls have never met.
Now, Quincy is doing well—maybe even great, thanks to her Xanax prescription. She has a caring almost-fiancé; a popular baking blog; a beautiful apartment; and a therapeutic presence in Coop, the police officer who saved her life. Her mind won’t let her recall the events of that night; the past is in the past…until the first Final Girl is found dead in her bathtub and the second Final Girl appears on Quincy’s doorstep.
Blowing through Quincy’s life like a hurricane, Sam seems intent on making her relive the trauma of her ordeal. When disturbing details about Lisa’s death emerge, Quincy desperately tries to unravel Sam’s truths from her lies while evading both the police and bloodthirsty reporters. Quincy knows that in order to survive she has to remember what really happened at Pine Cottage.
Because the only thing worse than being a Final Girl is being a dead one.
WINNER OF THE 2018 INTERNATIONAL THRILLER WRITERS AWARD FOR BEST HARDCOVER NOVEL
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This is probably one of the best books I have ever read. If you like psychological thrillers, you have found a winner! I had to sleep with the lights on after reading this one! This was the first book I read by Riley Sager more than a year ago. I have since read almost all of them! Riley knows how to write a page turner! I highly recommend!
Riley is a fantastic author. Definitely saw the twist coming, but it was still deliciously fun to read and a tightly written thriller!
This story is very well written. I really like the idea plot where there’s a group called the Final Girls for those girls that survives one the most horror times of their lives.
The pacing seems a bit slow especially the chapters that tells the present time. However, the mystery makes me feel curious that I kept flipping the pages to know what’s going to happen.
There’s definitely a lot of red herring thrown out in this story which kept me guessing along the story what really happen back in those cabin 10 years ago and who murdered one of the Final Girls in the present time.
With the amount of red herring and twist this book have, it’s very difficult to identify the real culprit. There’s a lot of surprises and the final twist in the end left me speechless.
Overall, this book is very entertaining and definitely shocking! Even though the pacing is a little bit slow but it’s still enjoyable and I have a good time reading this book. It doesn’t disappointed me in the end.
I was on the edge of my seat the whole time!
An excellent psychological thriller worth every one of the five stars. Well written and nicely nuanced characterisation made for a seamless and nail-biting read. I read this in two sittings, keen to find out if Quincy’s amnesia, which protected her for years, could be reversed and reveal a terrifying truth. The answer was yes! Loved it and will definitely read more of Riley Sager’s novels.
This is the second Riley Sager book I’ve read. He has a very specific voice in his books. Easy and enjoyable to read. This one was filled with the over arching mystery and sprinkled with moments of suspense and terror. I literally dropped the book when I reached a big reveal! Highly recommend if you have not read Riley yet, Start here!
My first Riley Sager novel was HOME BEFORE DARK, and I immediately knew I was a goner. I’ve been obsessed with his writing ever since and have been making my way through his backlist. The rumors about FINAL GIRLS are true: it’s intense and electrifying, with an ending that will leave your jaw on the floor. From premise to execution, this book is sheer brilliance.
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Intrigued by the claim of a ‘must read with an unbelievable twist of an ending’, Final Girls by Riley Sager was a 2017 psychological thriller. Known as one of the Final Girls, Quincy Carpenter is one of three massacre survivors. She has moved on with her life, has a cooking blog and supportive partner. Then one of the other survivors dies and the third turns up on her doorstep and the mystery begins. With a slow build-up and enjoyable dark tale, this is a three-and-a-half star read. It would have been higher, except for the twist being somewhat anticipated and the ending somewhat disappointing as a result.
Terrific read. If you like psychological thrillers, this one’s for you. Well done Riley Sager!!
My Rating:
Type: Standalone
Genre: Thriller, Horror Thriller
Narration: Limited third party
Primary Characters: Quincy Carpenter
I had slightly high expectation from this book. if you are a regular reader of thrillers and mysteries you have a good chance of having it figured out early. Some twists were expected, yet is a compulsive and addictive read.
Book starts out exactly as explained in the blurb. It’s been nearly ten years since Quincy and her friends were attacked in a remote Pine – cottage cabin by a psycho and she was the ‘Final Girl’ to make it out of that alive. There were two other different massacre’s similar to Pine cottage few years before her attack and there are two other women who survived their own nightmare.
Quincy’s is trying to lead a normal life with her attorney boyfriend along with having an own career for herself in baking world. Now things aren’t as simple because she has a selective memory loss of what exactly happened few years back. With other ‘Final Girl’ survivor being dead another (Samantha) knocking on her door, she starts getting the glimpse of what happened exactly in the pine – cottage few years back. Sam’s arrival and invasion into Quincy’s life will bring out her bizarre behavior.
This book had its own moments that made me cringe and parts of it annoyed me and some parts kept me on my toes. This book was layered well. Book moved in slow pace in the beginning and picked up pace in the end. Everything unravels at the steady pace. Two different timelines in the story was a wonderful way of Narration. Plot is the best part of the book. I didn’t like any characters much, including Quincy.
The final twist was so unexpected and the story gained much needed momentum in the last parts leaving me eager for more. Overall, it’s an entertaining, suspenseful, psychological thriller.
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I wasn’t sure how this book was going to go, but I knew it would have twists and turns and I was right. Riley Sager weaves an intricate tale of murder, loss, and a fear of everyone you meet. I thought I had the story figured out and, once again, there were curve balls thrown and I was wrong. This is a haunting tale that will stay with you long after you close it.
The writing was just…ok. I found myself wanting the book to be over. Never a good sign. But I was able to finish it, so maybe it just wasn’t the right time for me with this book. Willing to try again.
I stopped reading because I just lost interest in it. Some people may like it though.
I’m going to have to buy more of his books!
I didn’t finish it.
Page Turner
The Final Girls is a club that Quincy wishes she wasn’t a part of – a group of women who survived the unfathomable. When one of the Final Girls ends up dead under suspicious circumstances and another shows up on Quincy’s doorstep, Quincy once again finds herself fighting for her life. An excellent thriller.
I don’t know why I didn’t read this book sooner! I was always intrigued by the cover, and title. A very well written first novel for Mr. Sager. I cannot wait to get my hands on his other three that are out, with book five coming out next summer and that one sounds good as well!
Quincy, a decade ago had went with a group of college friends to party and celebrate a friends birthday at a remote cabin in the wood. This obviously sets a background that screams horror movie. A cabin, in a remote woods, a group of drinking young people… yeah, we know how this is going to end. anyways, Quincy was the only survivor of that horrific night and has blocked it in her memory since. She really cannot remember what happened.
Although police and others have often questioned whether she did it, even though the killer was shot and killed by an officer who was near the area checking on things at the time when he came across a bloodies Quincy in the woods screaming for help. She learns, that there is a name for those who survive horrific events where all the others are all killed. The Final Girl.
Quincy feels like she has moved past this part of there life. Yes, she still struggles at times but she has routine down, her boyfriend Jeff and her baking blog. Life isn’t too bad and she is left alone. That is until another Final Girl commits suicide, and a third Final Girl shows up on Quincy’s door step. A Final Girl who had disappeared off the radar years ago. Now she is back, and not afraid to be in the limelight, but why?
Thing don’t seem to be adding up with this third Final Girl, and everyone can see that but Quincy. This girl understands her, and no one else does. How can anyone understand who has never been the lone survivor of a horrific event? As police dig, they find that Lisa, the one committed suicide, maybe did not do so after all. Is someone out to get these girls, someone not happy that they all are lone survivors and maybe should not have been? Why did they survive anyways?
Can Samantha, the other Final Girl, bring Quincy to remember what happened that dreadful night at the cabin? Will she be able to bring Quincy’s memories forward and why is she pushing the issue, after all she knows what it was like to be hounded and pressured by police, and literally everyone to rehash what happened during that horrific time. It is not necessarily a healing process, if anything it can create regression.
A very well written, twisted psyche novel. There are quite a few characters but they all play their part in the story. I thought it was good and really had me thinking about what really happened that night, as it slowly unfolded every few chapters. I cannot wait to get his others and read those as well.
One of my favorites — an amazing psychological thriller!