“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-fiancé, 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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