{"id":18029,"date":"2021-09-16T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T15:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=18029"},"modified":"2021-09-15T19:15:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T01:15:40","slug":"book-37-of-52-the-final-girl-support-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/book-37-of-52-the-final-girl-support-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 37 (of 52) &#8211; The Final Girl Support Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18030\" style=\"width: 392px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/finalgirlsupportgroup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18030\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18030\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/finalgirlsupportgroup.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"382\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/finalgirlsupportgroup.jpg 382w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/finalgirlsupportgroup-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 382px) 100vw, 382px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18030\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Final Girl Support Group &#8211; Grady Hendrix<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Imagine, if you will, a world where slasher films like <em>Halloween<\/em>, <em>Friday the 13th<\/em>, <em>Nightmare on Elm Street<\/em>, <em>Texas Chainsaw Massacre<\/em>, and <em>Scream<\/em> were not works of fiction, but instead were based on real life events and the final girls, the real life Laurie Strodes and Sydney Prescotts, all travelled to Los Angeles for a monthly group therapy session?\u00a0 That is the basic premise of <em>The Final Girl Support Group<\/em>, that latest entry from Grady Hendrix.\u00a0 When someone starts attacking the remaining Final Girls, all evidence points to it being one of their own, but the truth is even more insidious.<\/p>\n<p>Through the first 2\/3&#8217;s of this book, I was completely on board.\u00a0 But, I feel like things went a little off the rails in that last third.\u00a0 You know going in to a book like this that there is going to a twist or two, but there really wasn&#8217;t so much twists as characters jumping back and forth from suspects like crazy.\u00a0 Still made for an enjoyable read, but I feel like it missed the landing just a little bit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine, if you will, a world where slasher films like Halloween, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Scream were not works of fiction, but instead were based on real life events and the final girls, the real life Laurie Strodes and Sydney Prescotts, all travelled to Los Angeles for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9789,9787,4094,9790,1485,9791,9788],"class_list":["post-18029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-friday-the-13th","tag-grady-hendrix","tag-halloween","tag-nightmare-on-elm-street","tag-scream","tag-texas-chainsaw-massacre","tag-the-final-girl-support-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18031,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18029\/revisions\/18031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}