Is there an audiobook of Final Girls?

Yes. Final Girls has an Audible audiobook edition, narrated by Erin Bennett and Hillary Huber.

How long is the Final Girls audiobook?

The Final Girls audiobook runs 12 hr 24 min.

Is Final Girls on Kindle Unlimited?

No. Final Girls was not included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on July 23, 2026.

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Our score

4.1/ 5

Excellent

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EDITION PUBLISHEDJuly 2017

Genres

Fiction Thriller Suspense

Themes

What survival costs a woman once the story moves on without herMemory as both protection and prisonThe media's appetite for packaged traumaTrust between women who've all been rewritten by others

Final Girls

Name: Final Girls
Price: 9.99 USD
Availability: InStock
Author: Riley Sager

Riley Sager

Riley Sager's 2017 breakout asks what happens when three women who each survived a separate massacre, dubbed "the Final Girls" by the press, are forced into contact after one of them turns up dead.

The Review

Our take

The press coined the label and the label stuck: Quincy, Lisa, and Sam, three sole survivors of three unrelated slaughters, forever bundled together as "the Final Girls" whether they like it or not. Sager's premise takes the horror-movie trope of the girl who survives the massacre and asks an unglamorous question: what does that survivor's life actually look like ten years out, once the cameras are gone and she's left alone with what happened. For Quincy, the answer is Xanax, a baking blog, a doting almost-fiancé, and a memory of the night at Pine Cottage that her mind refuses to hand back.

That memory gap is the book's real tension, not just the mystery of who's now killing Final Girls one by one, but whether Quincy's amnesia is protection or a locked door hiding something she doesn't want to remember. Sager plays that ambiguity for a long time before tipping his hand, and it works, because Quincy is a genuinely unreliable narrator in the useful sense: not lying to the reader, just as blind to her own past as everyone else is.

Sam is the character who does the most damage to the plot's comfortable surface, arriving at Quincy's apartment like a controlled detonation and refusing to let Quincy's careful, medicated normalcy stand unchallenged. Their scenes together have a live-wire quality the rest of the book strains to match, Sam needling at every soft spot in Quincy's constructed calm until something underneath finally gives. Lisa, dead before the book really gets going, functions more as a catalyst than a character, which is a fair trade for how effectively her murder sets the plot in motion.

Why you should read

Fans of unreliable-narrator psychological thrillers
Readers who liked Gone Girl's twisty structure
Anyone who enjoys slasher tropes turned inward
Readers who want a fast, plot-forward mystery

What to expect

A propulsive plot with several late-book twists
An unreliable narrator working through memory loss
Slasher-movie tropes used self-awarely, not as parody
Dark, sometimes violent content around the original massacre

Sager is explicit about his slasher-movie DNA, right down to structuring flashback chapters like a final girl's own highlight reel, and that meta-awareness is part of the fun rather than a distraction from it. The twists come fast in the last stretch, maybe one reversal more than the plot strictly needs, and a couple of red herrings get more page time than their payoff justifies. But the central question, what a woman who survived the unsurvivable owes to the story other people keep telling about her, stays sharp all the way through, and the answer Sager lands on is meaner and more satisfying than a tidy ending would have allowed.

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Our verdict

4.1/ 5

Excellent

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Where to read or listen

Is there an audiobook of Final Girls?: Yes. Final Girls has an Audible audiobook edition, narrated by Erin Bennett and Hillary Huber.
Listen to Final Girls free with an Audible trial
We earn from qualifying Amazon purchases.
How long is the Final Girls audiobook?: The Final Girls audiobook runs 12 hr 24 min.
Is Final Girls on Kindle Unlimited?: No. Final Girls was not included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on July 23, 2026.

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Common questions

What is Final Girls about?: The press coined the label and the label stuck: Quincy, Lisa, and Sam, three sole survivors of three unrelated slaughters, forever bundled together as "the Final Girls" whether they like it or not. Sager's premise takes the horror-movie trope of the girl who survives the massacre and asks an…
Is Final Girls worth reading?: We scored Final Girls 4.1 out of 5. Riley Sager's 2017 breakout asks what happens when three women who each survived a separate massacre, dubbed "the Final Girls" by the press, are forced into contact after one of them turns up dead.