Reviews tagging 'Torture'

My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

2 reviews

saint_eleanor's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-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? It's complicated

4.5

I love stephen graham jones!! Hit it out the park again with this one, with a character so incredibly delusional you can’t help but hate her at first, until you realize how perfectly he has written her to deliver us into the story. This one is blood and guts and laughs and some cries for sure, and i feel like Jones always somehow reaches that extra level of writing where he can grab onto something so abstract in his character’s thinking or etc and pull it into the pages, idk how to explain it but just read it lol (.5 stars off bc we were denied some answers)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Torture, Death, Suicide attempt, and Violence

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, and Rape

unphilosophize's review

adventurous challenging dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

Going into it, I knew this book probably wasn’t for me bc I’m not a big horror fan. 
I loved the prologue, but I didn’t really enjoy the main plot of the book. I think the parts where they talk about slashers is the strongest part of the book. 
If you don’t like slasher you’ll probably find this book fairly alienating. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, Vomit, and Violence

Moderate: Abortion