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3.62 AVERAGE
3.62 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
funny
tense
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:
Complicated
3.5 stars - I'm glad that I ended up giving this another shot. Definitely recommend reading this via audio book. Can't wait to read Don't Fear the Reaper!
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A slasher with real character development, emotional stakes and complicated themes? Yes please. Not that it wasn't a challenge to read at times, because it absolutely was. SGJ's amorphous stream of consciousness remains intact here and it's both a perfect fit for this subgenre and also one that requires a lot of patience and trust from the reader. If you can provide all that though, you're in for an all-timer of a "third reel body dump", as Jade Daniels would put it. Absolutely electric finale and one of the best endings to a horror story I've ever come across. One of the rare slashers that I'll be turning over in my head for quite a while.
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This was a wild ride. I’m confused but in the best kind of way. And I didn’t expect to cry but here we are.
This is not my preferred genre but I am certain I’ll pick this book up again.
This is not my preferred genre but I am certain I’ll pick this book up again.
My Heart is a Chainsaw is the latest release from Stephen Graham Jones and it brought me straight out of a reading funk. It’s a story that projected me back to the golden age of horror and opened up a new area in my brain – the area where all evil lurks, the knowledge about different slashers and killers coming to the fray. Jones should be protected, his novels are full of heartache, angst, and gore, I don’t think he can write a bad novel and I’m quite happy to die on that mountain.
Horror’s not a symptom, it’s a love affair.
My Heart is a Chainsaw is a love letter to the height of 80’s slashers flicks. With numerous references to Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, and Friday the 13th, we even have talk of the saw franchise. These movies are the life passion of the protagonist, Jade. She is a troubled character and takes comfort in the fictional bad guys rather than face the real-life bad guy she needs to run from. I connected with Jade and with Jones’s excellent prose he connected a bridge between us. Jade is strong but fragile and we are given clues to an event that happened on the lake that has forever changed her.
Jade is convinced that a slasher cycle is about to begin in her small Idaho town. The seventeen-year-old half-Indian girl tries to convince her history teacher, the town cop, an incomer, Letha Mondragon, who Jade is convinced will be the final girl…we all know the story behind final girls, right? Are the events all in Jade’s delusional mind or is there a killer that wants to spill blood? She must train Letha in the art of being a final girl…will she listen or treat Jade like everyone else…a social outcast? What Letha discovers instead will break your heart.
My heart is a chainsaw, yes, but you’re the one who starts it.
The prologue is the kick-started engine to a story that is happy to fuck you up, question your logic and sharpen that machete. Something chilling happens to a Scandinavian couple and you just know that starting pistol is going to come back to haunt everyone. The story is a slow burn, we get to witness Jade’s character flaws and strengths, how she views the world around her and how it views her, and finally her paper on Slasher 101. She fills in the gaps anyone might have on the Slasher genre and does so with passion and vigour.
My Heart is a Chainsaw is a mesmerising gorefest. Jones balancing on the precipice between tantalising storytelling and emotional trauma and has the balance perfect.
Horror’s not a symptom, it’s a love affair.
My Heart is a Chainsaw is a love letter to the height of 80’s slashers flicks. With numerous references to Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, and Friday the 13th, we even have talk of the saw franchise. These movies are the life passion of the protagonist, Jade. She is a troubled character and takes comfort in the fictional bad guys rather than face the real-life bad guy she needs to run from. I connected with Jade and with Jones’s excellent prose he connected a bridge between us. Jade is strong but fragile and we are given clues to an event that happened on the lake that has forever changed her.
Jade is convinced that a slasher cycle is about to begin in her small Idaho town. The seventeen-year-old half-Indian girl tries to convince her history teacher, the town cop, an incomer, Letha Mondragon, who Jade is convinced will be the final girl…we all know the story behind final girls, right? Are the events all in Jade’s delusional mind or is there a killer that wants to spill blood? She must train Letha in the art of being a final girl…will she listen or treat Jade like everyone else…a social outcast? What Letha discovers instead will break your heart.
My heart is a chainsaw, yes, but you’re the one who starts it.
The prologue is the kick-started engine to a story that is happy to fuck you up, question your logic and sharpen that machete. Something chilling happens to a Scandinavian couple and you just know that starting pistol is going to come back to haunt everyone. The story is a slow burn, we get to witness Jade’s character flaws and strengths, how she views the world around her and how it views her, and finally her paper on Slasher 101. She fills in the gaps anyone might have on the Slasher genre and does so with passion and vigour.
My Heart is a Chainsaw is a mesmerising gorefest. Jones balancing on the precipice between tantalising storytelling and emotional trauma and has the balance perfect.