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My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

14 reviews

meggs1005's review

dark 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: Self harm, Death, Animal death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Child abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicide, Alcoholism, Bullying, Classism, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Drug use, Pedophilia, Abandonment, Incest, and Pregnancy

sigynmoon's review

challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

sobbing

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual harassment, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual violence, Pregnancy, Racism, and Sexual assault

Minor: Animal death

libraryofdoe's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-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

4.0

I’m so very torn on how to rate this book.

On one hand, I found Jade’s story excellent and riveting and genre-defiant yet so obviously reverent of all the slashers that came before it and so, so raw. I found parts of myself in Jade that I almost didn’t want to see. I really like Jones’ writing style and the way he approached the story.

On the other hand I really didn’t like the whodunnit

which may be on me as I evidently hadn’t researched thoroughly enough to know that there was any supernatural aspect to the novel

and the end of the book felt rushed.

I may come back and change this rating on further thought, but for now 4 stars feels about right, if a lot lower than I anticipated 75% of the way in.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Violence, and Vomit

Minor: Abortion, Bullying, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Hate crime, Incest, Medical content, Pedophilia, Mental illness, Ableism, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Racism, Pregnancy, and Drug use

marlireads's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

3.0

 I'm so conflicted on this one...

Most of the book was definitely not as slasher-y as I expected, which was honestly a bit disappointing. But I was kind of enjoying myself too, but also the bigger part of the book where not a lot was happening, also got a bit tedious. Nothing really happened for too long before ending up at the juicy bits. Basically that chunk in the story could have been shorter.

I also don't really know how to feel about the reveal.

Even though supernatural elements were mentioned briefly, this story is so rooted in reality I wasn't able to believe the twist. The shock factor wasn't there. I feel like I enjoy stories much more if it's the other way around: when you're on the path of maybe believing there's a supernatural force at play, but it turns out to be a much more human cause. I feel like that's a much more effective plottwist.

I enjoyed my ride with Jade. I loved her! I listened to this book on audio and this really helped showing her personality. It was really well done. Her obsessionlove for slashers was really infectious. I want to be that into horror films, but unfortunately I'm an absolute scaredy cat and I don't go anywhere near those. I want to be a horror chick though... *sigh*

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Gore, Murder, Suicide attempt, and Vomit

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Rape

Minor: Alcoholism and Pregnancy