Final Girls by Riley Sager
This book was insane! I don't read as many thrillers as I probably should but I love a good mystery and crime situation. My favorite podcast is My Favorite Murder for crying out loud! I'm so happy that this novel was introduced to me via book club or I don't know if I would have ever discovered it!
The title comes from this "club" that three women belong to. The only thing that they have in common is they are the sole survivors from three separate massacres. They are trying to move on and live their lives in very different ways until one of them, Lisa, ends up dead, bringing the other two, Sam and Quincy, to meet in person for the first time. The book is told from Quincy's point of view. She's interesting because she can't even remember exactly what happened at the cabin where all her friends were killed and wants no part in being a Final Girl so she tries to go on living her life as if it never happened. Sam dealt with the killings of her coworkers by going off the grid. No one has heard from Sam in years until Lisa is found dead. Lisa was the only one who really leaned into being a Final Girl. She wrote a book about her life and wasn't in denial about what happened to her and her sorority sisters.
This book will keep you on your toes the entire time. Just when I thought I figured out what happened, everything changes!
Just a warning that this book can get a little gruesome at times, in my opinion. I'm the biggest scaredy cat out there and I was scared to read through this book at some parts.
You can get this book right now for only $13.76. This is such a good summer read and you'll never want to put it down. And for those moments where you have to put the book down, you'll find yourself trying to figure out the many mysteries in this novel.
Favorite Quotes:
"'I'm a blogger?' It comes out sounding like a question. Like I have no clue what I am.”
"When I graduated college with a marketing degree and moved to New York, I still thought of myself as a victim. So did everyone else. Baking seemed the only way to change that. I wanted to pour my runny, sloshing existence into a human-shaped mold and crank up the heat, emerging soft, springy, and new.”
“There's something energizing about getting what you want, even if that something is shame.”
“'There’s such a thing as too much sweetness, Quincy,' he told me. All the best bakers know this. There needs to be a counterpoint. Something dark. Or bitter. Or sour. Unsweetened chocolate. Cardamom and cinnamon. Lemon and lime. They cut through all the sugar, taming it just enough so that when you do taste the sweetness, you appreciate it all the more.”
