Last updated on 04/30/2026
Falling in love with her first love wasn’t part of her plan. Helping her kill the Hollywood elite wasn’t part of his.
Hollywood loves a comeback. Too bad Evie Reyes didn’t come back to play nice.
Five years ago, she watched her mother—an iconic Final Girl—die on the set of Simon Says. Now, she’s back on the same studio lot, cast as the lead in the reboot no one asked for. But Evie’s not here for fame. She’s here for revenge—and she’s got six names on her list.
Sebastian Shaw is Hollywood’s golden boy, a walking six-pack with just enough charm to disguise the fact that he’s a professional liar. He also happens to be Evie’s ex. When he finds out why she’s really back, he doesn’t try to stop her. He offers a he’ll get her access to each of the men she wants to confront—in exchange for six chances to sleep with her.
No feelings. No strings. Definitely no dates.
As bodies pile up and the on-set accidents get harder to explain away, Evie walks a razor-thin line between staying alive and getting justice. And Sebastian? He might be the only person who sees her clearly—and the one person she can’t afford to trust.
This Final Girl isn’t just surviving—she’s stealing the whole damn show
Review:
I struggled with rating this.
I loved the blub–100%, no notes. The horror movie references? Totally on board. As a Dead Meat fan, I was 1000% on board with Evie’s Body Count Bimbo podcast…I’d totally listen to that! The graphics of the book are on point, and I really liked the chapter titles, which referenced Hollywood and script speak. This is the type of second chance romance I always think has the best chance of working out, when the MCs were children the first time around and circumstances (read: the adults in their lives, mostly) get in the way. When they’re adults on their own, second chances are that much more believable. I’ve been wanting to read more horror, and hoped specifically to try some horror romance–so overall, this was checking a bunch of boxes for me from the get go.
But…
In the week(!) it took me to read this, the one thing I kept saying to everyone around me was I don’t *not* like it, exactly, but I don’t know. It’s just not what I expected? and really, that’s still where my head’s at. I liked the HEA-ness of the ending. I’m not sorry that anyone our MCs killed is dead. I don’t even really mind the death scenes–they’re pretty much what I expected from the author’s note and the general vibes.
Side note: read the author’s note at the beginning for sure. There’s all kinds of content warnings there.
I just…I guess the dub con was more “dub” than I’m comfortable with? Several of those scenes were pretty rough. Sebastian kept “fixing” relationship rough patches with s3x instead of actually taking about things, and that didn’t help convince me that they could have a lasting relationship this time around. The absolute lack of any sort of (murder) plan continued to bother me–even for a revenge story it was all incredibly laissez faire–and I didn’t expect it to be such a group project in the end. (Not complaining about that last one, really–Bryce’s contributions were some of my favorites, and Skye is an absolute scene stealer! But the blurb didn’t even give a clue that they’d be as involved as they were, and that threw me.) The pacing could have been tightened up–I really don’t think this needed to be 400+ pages, and things definitely dragged in parts.
So…final thoughts. I didn’t love this, but I didn’t wholly dislike it either. Will I try something from this author again? Sure, but I’m going to try others in the horror romance genre in the meantime to try and get more of a feeling for it first. I will absolutely admit this could be a “it’s just me” thing, but I’m hoping that refers to just this book, and not the genre as a whole.
Rating: 3 stars / C+
I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book.