"Dying isn't the important thing. It's nothing more than the punctuation mark on the end of your life. It's everything that came before that matters. Punctuation marks, most people skip right over them. They don't even have a sound."
Grady Hendrix's "The Final Girl Support Group" proceeds at a breakneck pace, following the horror movie trope by not leaving much room for making sense of split-second decisions.
"Curiosity was the faceless monster that stuck a pitchfork through the cat."
Propelled by dark humor and an untrustworthy narrator, the book leans into the stereotypes that pepper the genre, allowing the novel to weave a commentary about itself. Hendrix ensures he's not taking himself too seriously, but at times, the novel suffers as a result, as the lines between what is real and imagined become hard to parse.
As a quick, fun read, "The Final Girl Support Group" is an ideal summer group; if asked to be something more poignant and universal, the book will fall flat for most.
"The line between being too careful and not being careful enough is a line you only get to cross once."
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