HIS FINAL GIRL is the first book in Brooklyn Ann's B Mine series. This story has a very "New Adult" vibe but without a lot of the angst associated with that romance subgenre. The conflict in this story comes from the mythic unknown villain who terrorizes a group of teens and instructors at a summer camp. Set in Idaho during the year 1978, HIS FINAL GIRL pays homage to a lot of "B movie" horror films, characters, and fan favorite actors in the genre. This is particularly entertaining for fans of the "Friday the 13th" films. What sets this story apart are the two main characters โ 18-year-old Linnea Langenkamp and 19-year-old Wes Carpenter. As with her other books, Brooklyn Ann's strength as a storyteller is in creating characters who you care about and root for.
Wes and Linnea really don't want to go to camp, but their parents are making them. Fortunately for Linnea she'll be going with a few of her close friends, and Wes ends up making a few new ones. There are the expected cheesy high school stereotypical characters littering the landscape, but the budding romance between Wes and Linnea, along with the friendships they form with others, shine out. Brooklyn Ann does a good job of foreshadowing and letting the element of danger sneak up on the reader. The majority of the first half of the book establishes who the players in the story are, the overall mood, and the developing romance. Linnea and Wes each bring their special skills for surviving a murdering madman. Linnea is an outdoorswoman who can handle being on the run in the woods, and Wes is a tech geek who helps with rescue efforts. Brooklyn Ann writes some of the best "nice guy" heroes and Wes is a great example. This couple appreciates each other's strengths and their romance is sweet without being sickeningly so.
HIS FINAL GIRL is a sweet romance with authentic characters, and a little blood and gore thrown in. This hero and heroine work together to defeat evil and save the day. I look forward to reading Brooklyn Ann's next B Mine tale of spooky shenanigans and romance.
Two outcasts fall in love at summer camp. Will their romance be slashed by a masked killer?
On a North Idaho lakeshore stands a cheery summer camp built on the bones of an old mining settlement with a dark past. When Amteep High's 1979 senior class goes to Camp Natty, farm girl, Linnea Langenkamp, and computer nerd, Wes Carpenter fall in love at first sight as the jocks and cheerleaders try to make them miserable.
When Wes forewarns Linnea and her friends about a panty-raid, the jocks attempt to retaliate with a cherry-bomb, which goes off in a mineshaft and awakens a sleeping evil. The morning after Wes and Linnea consummate their love, the first body is found. A storm washes out the bridge and takes out the phone lines, trapping the campers. Then the bloodbath begins.
One by one, teachers and students are massacred in gruesome ways by an unstoppable killer that looks like a man, but isn't. An old miner's diary reveals a supernatural evil that won't stay buried.
Linnea's woodsy knowledge and Wes's techy skills flip their outcast status, putting the unlikely couple as the best line of defense against the killer.
Written in the tradition of summer camp slashers like Friday the 13th, Sleepaway Camp, and The Burning, His Final Girl promises all the cheesetastic staples: jocks, stoners, nerds, sex, keggers, off-the-wall gory kills…A few tropes are flipped, with unexpected survivors, and an HEA that romance readers crave.
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