I am working on my second draft of my 92k word horror novel, Confessions of a Final Girl and am in desperate need of fresh eyes on it. In return I enjoy reading pretty much anything except erotica but have a special interest in darker genres like horror, thriller, dystopia, etc.
I'm mostly concerned with structure and plot feedback, BUT I love seeing reactions and anything else a reader feels like mentioning. There shouldn't be much in the way of errors, but I also welcome typo spotting and line edit suggestions.
Plot:
Viv Lowell only survives the after of a summer camp massacre five years prior by adhering to a routine. On each anniversary, she offers a single new piece of information to the press to keep them at bay—nothing’s more exciting in Dale than its final girl. Until her press contact stands her up to cover an adjacent college town’s bloody headlines: the aftermath of a frat party shooting that claimed the lives of nearly every attendee.
Viv hates Teagan, a final girl not forged from cunning and brutality but one christened only by the fact she had been passed out drunk in a closet during her own attack and went unnoticed by the killer. If she stands any chance in moving on, and also coming to terms with the fact her own Michael Meyers might somehow still be stalking her, she’ll have to get over her grievances. Meanwhile, the frat party assailant has not been apprehended. To avoid becoming a tied-up loose end, Teagan will have to break through the cold exterior of Dale’s original final girl and learn what survival truly means.
* TW: implied CSA, domestic violence. The bad guys get their karma. The book is inspired by slasher movies, particularly the idea of “What happens AFTER the credits roll?”
* Bonus points if you have lived experience with chronic pain and/or amputations. Viv lost her leg and I write these parts based off research, unlike her PTSD which I write based off experience