Review: Final Girls by Riley Sager

Final Girls by Riley Sager
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

OMG,This book is Absolutely Brilliant,fast paced,packed full of twists and totally and utterly unputdownable

Lisa,Sam and Quincy,three young women who have survived unimaginable horror.Three victims of separate massacres who have been grouped together by the media and been labelled The Final Girls.

When something bad happens to Lisa,Quincy and Sam finally meet.Each has dark secrets and as events from the past reach out their bloodstained fingers into the present each one will never be the same again.

The book is written in the third person and mainly follows Quincy although there are some later chapters that are all about events in Sam's past and the reasons why she has decided to try to get to know Quincy.Interspersed throughout the book are chapters set before and in the weeks after the events that happened at Pine Cottage which is where Quincy`s personal horror occurred ten years before.Quincy and Sam are polar opposites character wise,Quincy does not want to accept that she is a Final Girl,she just wants to be normal and is very happy dedicating her life to her baking and her lawyer boyfriend Jeff.She can't remember what happened that horrible night at Pine Cottage and she just wants things to stay that way.Volatile,impulsive Sam with her wild goth style and don't give a damn attitude cannot understand why Quincy will not accept that they are both Final Girls.As far as Sam is Concerned Quincy needs to face up to the truth and stop living in denial.It's a character driven story and Quincy is a complex,well thought out believable character.I had my doubts as the events from the past unfolded wether Quincy knew more than she would admit.The rest of the cast of this heart pounding twisty thriller are also realistic and believable and all the way through the book I had no idea what really happened on that terrible night ten years ago and why Sam reappeared after years in hiding and turned up on Quincy`s doorstep.

It's a totally gripping,twisty story that hooks the reader in from the thrilling,heart pounding prologue right to the truly shocking and totally unexpected final twist.It's a very well written debut book and I look forward to reading more books by this author in the future.

Many thanks to penguin random house uk,Ebury publishing for a arc of this book via netgalley in exchange for a honest review.