This book felt like such a chaotic mess and it didn't work for me at all.

A large part of my dislike for this book stems from not liking the main character at all (not in the sense of 'wow she's so dislikable on purpose' but more just, not caring for her being the main point of view at all). I understand her intense survival tendencies and how that developed due to the trauma she faced, but it felt so overdone at points, and she also quickly lost all her planning skills? Like I did enjoy seeing how intensely she paid attention to how she walked, people around her, and her escape plans, but it all got thrown out of the window so quickly, and she sort of flipped as a character after that. She started just running around and accusing everyone, and I feel like at some point she stopped thinking and only started doing. In a sense, it was interesting to see how her carefully planned life and personality completely fell apart when things actually go wrong, but it was such a dramatic shift that it almost felt like two different characters.

I also felt like the plot itself was quite all over the place, and fell into the mystery/thriller trap of 'the only person the MC never even considered is actually the evil one.' Like I get that's a shocking twist, but at the same time that starts to become predictable in its own sense.

I do have to commend the book for it's absolutely disgusting descriptions of some of these massacres that stil vividly remain in my head. Didn't enjoy it at all, but it was well-written there at least.

I think I would have enjoyed this more had the side characters played a larger role, because I did like the larger idea of a final girl support group, but alas they do spend almost the entire book split it and it's mainly just Lynne, the one character in the group I didn't really care for at all.

I don't think I'll be trying another one of this author's books if they're anything like this, and honestly, I have a large enough tbr anyways,