"The first great thriller of 2017 is almost here: Final Girls , by Riley Sager. If you liked Gone Girl , you'll like this." -Stephen King Ten years ago, college student Quincy Carpenter went on vacation with five friends and came back alone, the only survivor of a horror movie-scale massacre. In an instant, she became a member of a club no one wants to belong to--a group of similar survivors known in the press as the Final Girls. Lisa, who lost nine sorority sisters to a college dropout's knife; Sam, who went up ...
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"The first great thriller of 2017 is almost here: Final Girls , by Riley Sager. If you liked Gone Girl , you'll like this." -Stephen King Ten years ago, college student Quincy Carpenter went on vacation with five friends and came back alone, the only survivor of a horror movie-scale massacre. In an instant, she became a member of a club no one wants to belong to--a group of similar survivors known in the press as the Final Girls. Lisa, who lost nine sorority sisters to a college dropout's knife; Sam, who went up against the Sack Man during her shift at the Nightlight Inn; and now Quincy, who ran bleeding through the woods to escape Pine Cottage and the man she refers to only as Him. The three girls are all attempting to put their nightmares behind them, and, with that, one another. Despite the media's attempts, they never meet. Now, Quincy is doing well--maybe even great, thanks to her Xanax prescription. She has a caring almost-fiance, Jeff; a popular baking blog; a beautiful apartment; and a therapeutic presence in Coop, the police officer who saved her life all those years ago. Her memory won't even allow her to recall the events of that night; the past is in the past. That is, until Lisa, the first Final Girl, is found dead in her bathtub, wrists slit, and Sam, the second, appears on Quincy's doorstep. Blowing through Quincy's life like a whirlwind, Sam seems intent on making Quincy relive the past, with increasingly dire consequences, all of which makes Quincy question why Sam is really seeking her out. And when new details about Lisa's death come to light, Quincy's life becomes a race against time as she tries to unravel Sam's truths from her lies, evade the police and hungry reporters, and, most crucially, remember what really happened at Pine Cottage, before what was started ten years ago is finished.
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Quincy Carpenter survives a massacre at Pine Cottage in a forest of Pennsylvania.
Along with two other women, who have also survived similar horrors, she becomes known as a Final Girl. The last one standing.
She can't remember what happened at Pine Cottage. She just wants to move on with her life.
Ten years later, after a tragedy occurs with Lisa, one of the Finals, Samantha Boyd, the third Final, shows up on Quincy's doorstep in Manhattan.
Sam has been living under the radar for years. Now she's there for Quincy. To offer support in the wake of Lisa's misfortune.
She insinuates herself into Quincy's life and offers something far different from support.
Quincy slowly begins to recall, in bits and pieces, what really happened that terrifying night at the cottage.
Shock after shock, twist after twist, this story will leave you second guessing the whole time.
As you read it you get a constant tingle of anticipation of what's going to materialize next.
A thriller in the best nothing-is-as-it-seems tradition, it's an amazing ride.
