Final Girls by Riley Sager Whatever happens to survivors of horrific massacres? After the slasher flick is over and the credits start to roll, how do they cope with the physical and psychological trauma? This is the overarching premise behind Final Girls. Somewhere in the middle of the book I developed such an intense dislike for the protagonist which, intentionally or not, was a perfect parallel to the intense frustration we all feel in horror films when you want to scream at the characters "Don't go in there! Why are you so stupid?!?". I guess I finally understand people's hatred of imperfect, unreliable narrators, critiques which I readily dismissed for Girl on the Train and Gone Girl because I felt a special resonance with those sketchy betches. All that said, by the time the story began to wrap up, I was all aboard for the unexpected but extremely satisfying denouement. All in all, a deliciously thrilling mystery as long as you give yourself space for the occasional yell at these fictional peeps and their terrible decisions.