![]() ![]() As a first-person narrator, Emma withholds a lot of information, which feels fake and frustrating moreover, the revelations-when they come-are hardly worth the wait. Emma is clearly unwell, so her decision to go back to the site of her trauma makes some sense, but it’s hard to believe that the camp’s owners would want her back, especially since she played a pivotal role in turning one of them into a suspect and nearly ruining his life. It’s so slow that the reader has ample time to notice how contrived the novel’s setup is. Sager met the demands of the genre while offering a fresh, anxiety-inducing story in Final Girls. Thrillers are, by their very nature, formulaic. She’s ostensibly there to serve as an art instructor, but her real mission is to finally find out what happened to her friends. When she’s offered another opportunity to spend a summer at the camp, Emma barely hesitates. ![]() Fifteen years have passed, years in which Emma has revisited this ordeal again and again through her work as a painter. The other three girls in her cabin disappeared one night, never to return. ![]() ![]() It certainly was for Emma Davis during her first stay at Camp Nightingale. More psychological suspense from the author of Final Girls (2017).Īnyone who grew up watching horror movies in the 1980s knows that summer camp can be a dangerous place. ![]()
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