The Final Girl Support Group – Grady Hendrix

In horror film terms the final girl is the one left standing at the end of the film having defeated whatever horrors have gone before, but if those horror films are based on true events what happens to the final girls after the media attention has gone away? How do they deal with the trauma they’ve gone through? Lynette Tarkington twice survived massacres 22 years ago and has spent every day since living in fear of it happening again. The only bright spot in her days are the times when she meets with her therapist and the five other final girls that form their support group but when one of the women misses a session Lynette realises her fears are coming true and someone is coming for them all over again.

The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires – Grady Hendrix

Patricia Campbell led a fairly mundane life. Her husband is a workaholic, pushing for promotion, her teenage kids are busy with their own lives and she’s struggling to take care of her Mother-in-Law who is rapidly declining with dementia. The one bright area of her life is her book club where the group of women read a mix of true crime and crime fiction. After a horrific attack by her elderly neighbour, Patricia meets the neighbour’s nephew, the mysterious James Harris. At first she is enchanted by him but as time goes on strange things start to happen around the neighbourhood and when some kids from the other side of town start to go missing or die in unusual circumstances, Patricia starts to suspect her new friend may be involved. Could the truth be even worse than she ever imagined and just how much are her convictions going to cost her?

January Round Up

Wow, January has actually gone super fast for me this year. Normally it feels like it goes on forever but it’s flown! I’ve struggled a bit more with lockdown this time than I did the other two times, but I’m trying to find a new routine to help me deal with it and the last week or so has been better.

My Best Friend’s Exorcism – Grady Hendrix

Abby and Gretchen have been best friends for years. They do everything together and have always got each other’s backs. Until during a night of drug experimentation and skinny dipping Gretchen goes missing for several hours and when she comes back she’s not the same. What happened to her while she was gone and can Abby ever get her best friend back?