GOOD GIRLS DON'T DIE - Christina Henry

Three women, three stories, different and yet somehow the same.

Celia - wakes up in a home with a husband and child and something doesn't feel right. The house ... the husband ... the child ...? She recognizes none of it, but sensing danger, she plays along until she can find a way to get out and think about her options.

Allie - goes along on a weekend outing with her two best friends and their boyfriends (not the weekend she was expecting!) to a cabin in the woods. She's seen enough horror movies that start this way, that she's almost prepared when their car is destroyed, the guys go missing, and the other girls are killed in front of her.

Maggie - just wants to be with her daughter, but when she wakes up in a shipping container with a number of other women, she finds herself in a dystopian-like situation - not unlike The Hunger Games or The Maze Runner - where she has to fight to survive to see her daughter again.

Three women; three horror stories. Their stories will come together with the one thing they have in common.

I definitely count myself as a fan of Christina Henry's work and I really like that I know I will get something 'different' with each book.  That said, while this is a bit different from some of her other works, it was a little bit familiar in subject matter.  This is a 'final girls' book - a horror story about those women who are the final, surviving girl in the movies (and books).  There've been a few 'final girls' books recently ... I reviewed Grady Hendrix's The Final Girls Support Group about two years ago) ... and while Henry puts her own dark spin on the story, it doesn't feel too different from others ... a 'final girl' is going to be a 'final' girl no matter what.

There are some hints along the way as to what is happening and I had a pretty good idea as to what this was, though the actual 'who' remained a mystery until the very end.

I did find a little humor in Henry's getting even or getting revenge to prove a point to the on the online male trolls who are nasty (mostly to women) just as her villain is trying to prove his own misogynistic point.

Christina Henry is an author whose work I actively look for and will read any of her books at any time. While I don't think this is her best work, it's still a darn sight better than most.

Looking for a good book? Christina Henry takes her own stab at the 'final girl' trope with Good Girls Don't Die.

I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher, through Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.

3-1/2 stars

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Good Girls Don't Die

author: Christina Henry

publisher: Berkley

ISBN: 9780593638194

paperback, 336 pages

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