This is a FANTASTIC novella.
“Final Girl is Tired” is hooked around an obvious conceit, basically laid out in the title. Final girl Maxine Hart survived a Jason Voorhees-like killer decades ago. Now in her fifties, she gets lured into making an appearance at “The Camp Slaymore Experience,” a theme park that recreates the horrors of her real attack. (One character describes the camp as “dinner theater meets escape room meets the best haunted house you’ve ever walked through.”)
The deaths at the “Experience” are supposed to be fake. Of course, that doesn’t last long.
The plot delivers exactly what you would hope for. And I loved Mourne’s writing; he passes on story and character information with great economy.
The dialogue felt a little under-worked, but in a way, that’s staying true to the source material.
The kills are varied, memorable and terrific.
I believe the book is not for sale and can only be found as a newsletter signup gift at the author’s website: https://www.morganmourne.com/
