Review: Good Girls Don't Die - Christina Henry

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Review: Good Girls Don't Die - Christina Henry - November 2023

This book captured my attention with the title and as I opened it, we are presented with three females who seem to be stuck in their movie or this case the final girl scenario. For our first one, Celia wakes up in a small cozy town with a life she doesn't remember and a family who in her mind can't exist. She also owns her restaurant. This doesn't seem like her life should but she takes it with a grain of salt as things aren't exactly lining up and it's about to take a weirder turn when she finds herself a murder suspect. This whole situation reminds Celia of the cozy mysteries she loves to read, can she put her bookish knowledge to the test and escape and survive this crazy world she has found herself in the middle of? 

Story #2 is about Allie whose birthday weekend plans have changed at the last minute and instead of a relaxing girls' weekend on the beach, she is stuck in a cabin in the woods with her two friends and their boyfriends especially the jerk Brad. What will happen when an evil serial killer is determined to kill this weekend and Allie will have to put her love of horror films and everything she knows about being the "final girl" to survive this birthday bloodbath weekend? 

Story #3 is about Maggie who has woken up with 11 other females and finds herself in a tale that reminds her of her favourite dystopian novel The Maze Runner by James Dashner her incentive to get through this is her daughter who has been kidnapped. Can Maggie - a school librarian and lover of dystopian like The Hunger Games and Maze Runner channel her inner Katniss and survive to save her loved one?
The ending was a surprise and in a way reminded me of the remake of Fantasy Island with Lucy Hale if I could sum up Good Girls Don't Die by Christina Henry with a tagline it would be "The Book Version of the Horror movie Fantasy Island" as with the last chapter it reminded me of the movie and how they ended up on the island and why their fantasies were what they were.



Amazon: https://amzn.to/49yesH2





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