Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

26 reviews

lizzardbreath's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

Book so good I had to read the acknowledgments. Stephen Graham Jones does a wonderful job at portraying the complicated life of a teenage girl dealing with childhood trauma and how she uses slasher horror to help navigate her life. Really, there’s no eloquent way for me to fully explain this book into words other than to say that I found myself relating to Jade in a lot of ways and how creative she was for managing how to survive through a series of murders in her town while also dealing with how the town locals treated her. She’s lived a hard life and I was so proud of her for being able to overcome her fears, challenge her preconceived notions of herself and manage to solve the mystery behind the murder of Proofrock. I’m so excited to see where her story goes next. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, Murder, and Child abuse

Moderate: Vomit, Cursing, and Sexual assault

torturedreadersdept's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Alcohol, Death, Murder, Rape, Animal death, Bullying, Death of parent, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Alcoholism, Blood, Child abuse, Cultural appropriation, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Violence, and Vomit

creativeerosion's review against another edition

adventurous funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Gore, Violence, Cursing, Death of parent, Alcohol, Death, Grief, Alcoholism, Animal death, Vomit, Blood, Child death, Suicide attempt, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Deadnaming, Racism, and Body shaming

judassilver's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual harassment, Violence, Self harm, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Classism, Sexual assault, and Vomit

Moderate: Animal death, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, Cursing, Death of parent, Grief, Body horror, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Colonisation, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, Cultural appropriation, and Racism

daisywilkes's review against another edition

3.75

A slow start but I realise now it was building up to the absolutely Wild ending! Excited to see where SGJ goes with the rest of the trilogy 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Cursing, Rape, Child abuse, Incest, and Murder

clrouse's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Violence, Gore, Murder, Self harm, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Pedophilia, Emotional abuse, Animal death, Incest, Rape, and Sexual assault

Minor: Abortion, Classism, Cursing, Mental illness, and Abandonment

devilledgreggs's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This is my second Stephen graham jones book and I have to say I’ve fallen in love with his writing style. This book wasn’t as scary as The Only Good Indians but I was much much more emotionally invested. I really loved Jade as a character, her framing the world through slasher movies along with her essays kept me really engaged. The first three quarters of the book is a more of a mystery narrative which explodes into a gore fest in the end. I genuinely didn’t know what would happen next. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Cursing, Suicide attempt, Violence, Death, and Self harm

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Abandonment, and Child abuse

Minor: Child death, Incest, and Rape

swamp_rat's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Cursing, Vomit, Rape, Pedophilia, Animal death, and Gore

Minor: Cultural appropriation and Abortion

averagesparrow's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Self harm, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual assault, Animal death, Cursing, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Sexual violence, Incest, Rape, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Alcoholism and Alcohol

apestforwrens's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

SGJ is an incredible writer and the way he presents Jade really lets the reader ride along with her. I literally stayed up all night to finish this book because I could NOT put it down. It is a horror book, so there is a lot of genre-typical heavy content, but it did not feel gratuitous to me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Blood, Body horror, Violence, Gore, Suicide attempt, and Murder

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Medical trauma, Grief, Animal death, Colonisation, Pedophilia, Medical content, Gaslighting, Racism, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Cursing, Classism, Mental illness, Alcoholism, and Stalking

Minor: Rape, Cultural appropriation, Self harm, Forced institutionalization, Death of parent, Sexual assault, Vomit, and Suicidal thoughts