What is a final girl? The lone survivor in a horror movie, the one who comes out at the end covered in blood staggering away from the massacre. Quincy Carpenter is a Final Girl. She watched as her friends were brutally murdered while they were away on a weekend camping trip at Pine Cottage in the Poconos. There are two other Final Girls, Sam and Lisa, who also survived horrible ordeals. Despite what all of these girls have been through, they have never met. That is until one day, one of the other Final Girls has taken her own life and the other shows up on Quincy's doorstep. Quincy is forced to relive her nightmare as she tries to figure out the truth of what happened that night at Pine Cottage.

This book was highly recommended, but the first two thirds of the book were so slow. I just wanted something to happen, but it took forever. I did like how the book flashed back from the present to Quincy’s time at Pine Cottage, but even when we were at Pine Cottage, nothing happened there. Once we got to the last third of the book, that’s when it started to pick up the pace and we learned the truth.

There were a lot of red herrings thrown into this book so there were things that I thought would happen that didn’t. I didn’t expect the twist the author threw in at the end, but it just didn’t work for me. It felt like the author was trying to shock us rather than keep with the story he already told. I’ve heard such good things about his other books that I plan to read them and hope they’ll be better than Final Girls.