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My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

42 reviews

ry_mo_03's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Alcoholism

shysheepys's review

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

4.0

I love Jade Daniels and I want nothing but the best for her. 
I'm personally not a slasher fan, but I love horror and wrote a few college papers on slasher tropes and the theories behind slashers and why slashers are popular. I loved being able to read this without having to think to hard about the things Jade was talking about, because I already knew them too, and it all made sense. For someone that hadn't done research on slashers, though? I can't imagine them being able to read this easily. 

But anyway, I love Jade Daniels. I love this book. I can't wait to read the next.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Suicide, Body horror, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Incest, Murder, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Self harm

Moderate: Pregnancy, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Racism, and Death of parent

Minor: Abortion, Classism, Cultural appropriation, Fire/Fire injury, Drug use, and Colonisation

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

averagesparrow's review

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

megwilli's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Suicide attempt, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual harassment

Minor: Incest, Pedophilia, and Sexual assault

tallerthanblue's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide attempt, Rape, Alcoholism, and Sexual harassment

backfrompluto's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Violence, Child abuse, Child death, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

Moderate: Sexual assault

blacksphinx's review

dark informative mysterious 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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Animal death, Rape, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, Vomit, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Pedophilia

Minor: Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, and Racism

newton's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

3.0

Okay. I'm conflicted on this book. It was a slow start, and for most of it I was just confused as to where we were and what was happening. My number one criticism was a lack of atmospheric detail, there were so many points where I knew vaguely the location Jade was in but was left with little idea of what that place looked like. I don't know if it's a flaw of the writing or just me not reading closely enough (or, most likely, a mix) but it seriously impacted how I was able to enjoy this book. I'm still lost on a lot of the plot and details, and it was just a bit of a drudge until things picked up around the end.
On to the positives, though. Jade. Jade my love. I really liked the idea of a genre-savvy slasher character, and while it was often hard to parse when serious drama was actually going down because of how slasher-focused her narration was, overall I absolutely adored her character. She deserved to go apeshit and

kill her piece of shit father

. I also found Letha to be a fantastic character

(though, again, Jade's narration made it a bit hard to really trust her – I was waiting for a twist with her that never came).

Rooting for them to fall in love in books 2 or 3.
And the GORE!! I love to feel violently sick after reading a book – it's a lot harder for gore to get to me when I'm not watching it on screen. The gore in The Only Good Indians was probably my favorite part of the book, and I was glad to see SGJ keeps up the horrifying grossness in his other work.

The part where Letha and Jade are hiding in the cave of elk corpses was so disgusting and evocative, and of course the jaw dismemberment and bodies flying in the yacht and lake massacres were delightfully horrifying.

I'll probably read at least book 2 in this trilogy, and maybe reread this one just to fill in the details of what I missed in my first read. All in all, it was enjoyable, and by the time it picked up, I couldn't put it down. I just wish the first part hadn't been so slow and that we had been able to get more details and atmosphere/mood through Jade's consistently slasher-focused narration. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Gore, Incest, Suicide attempt, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Alcoholism

caterpillar's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, Gore, Alcoholism, Blood, Death, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Child abuse, and Rape

Minor: Pregnancy