Final Girls
Books | Fiction / Horror
3.8
Mira Grant
hat if you could fix the worst parts of yourself by confronting your worst fears? Dr. Jennifer Webb has invented proprietary virtual reality technology that purports to heal psychological wounds by running clients through scenarios straight out of horror movies and nightmares. In a carefully controlled environment, with a medical cocktail running through their veins, sisters might develop a bond they've been missing their whole liveswhile running from the bogeyman through a simulated forest. But]]can real change come so easily? Esther Hoffman doubts it. Esther has spent her entire journalism career debunking pseudoscience, after phony regression therapy ruined her father's life. She's determined to unearth the truth about Dr. Webb's budding company. Dr. Webb's willing to let her, of course, for reasons of her own. What better advertisement could she get than that of a convinced skeptic? But Esther's not the only one curious about how this technology works. Enter real-world threats just as frightening as those created in the lab. Dr. Webb and Esther are at odds, but they may also be each other's only hope of survival. With her new novella Final Girls, bestselling, award-winning author Mira Grant has conjured a heartstopping, gut-wrenching story filled with as many twists as it is versions of reality. Grant offers a chilling exploration of how surviving horrors might define us all.
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Author
Mira Grant
Pages
111
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Published Date
2017-04-30
ISBN
159606823X 9781596068230
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"“We’re not monsters. We just make imaginary ones.”<br/>⭐️⭐️<br/>Sci-fi isn’t really my thing so I’m not that surprised I didn’t enjoy this more. The concept was super intriguing: virtual reality horror scenarios as a form of therapy. However, this is a case in which I actually wish this would’ve been a full fledged novel. It was hard to truly understand the technology and follow two different storylines in such a truncated amount. If we had gotten more background information and more time with these characters I think I would’ve enjoyed the story more and had a better understanding sooner."
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Cailin Zoltak