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    The Last Final Girl
    The Last Final Girl
    The Last Final Girl
    Audiobook5 hours

    The Last Final Girl

    Written by Stephen Graham Jones

    Narrated by Eric G. Dove

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    About this audiobook

    The Last Final Girl is like Quentin Tarantino's take on The Cabin in the Woods. Bloody, absurd, and smart. Plus, there's a killer in a Michael Jackson mask." (Carlton Mellick III, author of Apeshit)

    Life in a slasher film is easy. You just have to know when to die.

    Aerial View: A suburban town in Texas. Everyone's got an automatic garage door opener. All the kids jump off a perilous cliff into a shallow river as a rite of passage. The sheriff is a local celebrity. You know this town. You're from this town.

    Zoom In: Homecoming princess, Lindsay. She's just barely escaped death at the hands of a brutal, sadistic murderer in a Michael Jackson mask. Up on the cliff, she was rescued by a horse and bravely defeated the killer, alone, bra-less. Her story is already a legend. She's this town's heroic final girl, their virgin angel.

    Monster Vision: Halloween masks floating down that same river the kids jump into. But just as one slaughter is not enough for Billie Jean, our masked killer, one victory is not enough for Lindsay. Her high school is full of final girls, and she's not the only one who knows the rules of the game.

    When Lindsay chooses a host of virgins, misfits, and former final girls to replace the slaughtered members of her original homecoming court, it's not just a fight for survival - it's a fight to become The Last Final Girl.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJournalStone Publishing
    Release dateJan 1, 2018
    ISBN9781987118889
    The Last Final Girl
    Author

    Stephen Graham Jones

    STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES was raised as pretty much the only Blackfeet in West Texas - except for his dad and grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins. He now lives in Boulder, Colorado with his wife, a couple kids, and too many old trucks. Between West Texas and now, he's published more than twenty books, including the novels The Fast Red Road, Ledfeather, and Mongrels, and the short story collections After the People Lights Have Gone Off, States of Grace, and The Ones that Got Away. Stephen’s been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, the Texas Institute of Letters Jesse Jones Award for Fiction, the Independent Publishers Awards for Multicultural Fiction, three This is Horror awards, and he’s made Bloody Disgusting’s Top Ten Novels of the Year. Stephen teaches in the MFA programs at University of Colorado at Boulder and University of California Riverside-Palm Desert.

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    • 4/5
      I thought it was interesting that the book as written in stage directions. I did get confused about the characters.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 3/5
      I have no doubt I would have enjoyed this more if I had been able to read it. As is it has some valid reflections on the slasher genre and how women and girls are perceived in general but I never actually got invested.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 2/5
      This book relies on self-congratulatory usage of nearly every horror movie trope and “inside joke” to get away with using nearly every horror movie trope and inside joke. In other words, the author tries to get away with being derivative by implying that he’s not being original on purpose, although to what end? Additionally, over-reliance on vintage pop culture references creates a sort of horror-movie-geek-clique feeling that just gets tired and cumbersome quickly.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Almost a little too horror movie trope-y for me, but still a good time. And hats off to the narrator for actually singing song bits instead of just speaking them oddly rhythmically
    • 3/5
      It was ok. I wasn’t pulled into the storyline much. I’ve read some of his other works and thoroughly enjoyed them. Idk if it was the style that he wrote in or what, but I just didn’t find it that interesting. It kept losing me.
    • 5/5
      Really fun. This definitely reads like a movie and is very much for lovers of the slasher genre. You can also definitely tell this was the seed for my heart is a chainsaw.
    • 2/5
      Do you like 80s pop culture and horror movie references? Then this is the book for you. Do you like a fun story, likeable characters, good dialogue, or jokes that land? Then keep moving. This only earned a second star because I know the author can do so much better.
    • 5/5
      Loved it. Any one who loves a good scary movie will love this book
    • 5/5
      I love how much SGJ loves slashers and how much that comes through in his books. I loved My Heart is a Chainsaw and can't wait for the next in series. This one definitely scratched that itch while I pass the time until his next release.
    • 1/5
      Couldn’t get into the way this was written. It’s like reading a script, with stage directions instead of prose. Stereotypical and dull.
    • 5/5
      It took me a little while to understand that this audiobook version of the story is a dramatic reading of a screenplay. Basically a pastiche of late 20th century slasher movies. Much of the dialogue consists of movie jargon, pop culture references, and film homages. If you're unfamiliar with the genre or easily offended by dark/ absurd violence humor, you might not be into it. It really grew on me, though there is some STARTLINGLY dark humor.