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4.15 AVERAGE
4.15 AVERAGE
Excellent concept and loved the homages to horror movies! This book is so verbose! I feel like fans of horror movies will love this, but then I feel like there’s an over explanation of horror movies for non-horror movie fans that read this. I don’t think non-horror movie fans would enjoy this book though. Also, some of the action scenes get a little confusing.
adventurous
dark
emotional
tense
fast-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This was a good installment in the Indian Lake Trilogy and I enjoyed it. The pacing was faster than the first, which I enjoyed, and I liked the 4-year time jump, since it allowed the characters to evolve from a few years prior without completely moving on from their younger selves. This book also left some loose ends that I assume we’ll see tied up in the final book and I enjoyed the horror elements. What I didn’t like, though, is the chapter lengths - I hate long chapters and this book had a chapter that’s 50 pages, one that’s over 60 pages, and one that’s a whopping 99 pages. I hated that, especially since we jumped between POVs in the long chapters that I feel would’ve been easy to break up. Each chapter is named after a horror movie, so I get where the length was coming from because of the events in each chapter correlating to each movie, but I still didn’t like that part at all. Otherwise, this was fun!
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-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
dark
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:
Complicated
adventurous
dark
funny
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
A genuine love letter to horror fans. It is just as good as Chainsaw.
dark
emotional
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:
Yes
There are plenty of folks who felt that My Heart is a Chainsaw was too slow paced. Thats not the case at all here! Readers are thrown right into the mayhem, just like Proofrock's residents again, and we readers just have to hold on to our chairs and flip through the pages as fast as we can.
I loved this one almost as much as the first book, but because the golden age of horror only gets a nod in this one, I think I'll need to wait for the final book for another 5 stars.
I loved this one almost as much as the first book, but because the golden age of horror only gets a nod in this one, I think I'll need to wait for the final book for another 5 stars.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
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:
Complicated
This story presented multiple perspectives, and I found it interesting how some of them came from the heads of people whom I severely disliked for one reason or another, yet most of them weren't the "villains" in a classic sense. Like Jade's mother, whose decision to leave her daughter in the care of that FUCKER is something I am still reeling over. Or the "history teacher" who likes 'em young, shall we say. Even wilder, they are both helpful in defeating Dark Mill South. For me, it was an uncomfortable reminder that people aren't really "pure evil villains" most of the time, they're just people. And some people choose to do fucked up shit. Which is worse than just being a big baddie because that's how you're written. Their stories, contrasting with the slashers that followed a twisted logic, stood out to me.
I liked Letha and Banner's parts; it was cool to see them rally behind Jade. Her relationship with Letha is so sweet, and seeing Banner go from being kinda weird with Jade to hugging her and fighting by her side was such a satisfying development. Especially considering he was a jerk to her when they were kids. Her sacrifice for him and his family at the end really got me, she just gives and gives and gives. Jade doesn't see why she makes such a fierce final girl, but I do.
Hoping the third book clears up the Cinnamon and Ginger thing, things got twisty, but it seems like Cinnamon was doing some fucked up shit. Ginger too?
This book had way more action and it was a little easier for me to follow the twists and turns, but I don't think I liked it any more than book one. I liked being with Jade then, and I like being with her now.
In this continuation from My Heart Is A Chainsaw, Jade returns - but she's no longer the suicidal, angst-ridden teenager obsessed with slasher films that she was on the previous book. She goes by Jennifer now, and her hair is it's natural color. These changes are supposed to indicate she has healed from the unspeakable thing that happened to her as a child. Another slasher is in town, free from an ill - fated caravan (that went out on a mountain in a blizzard for this prisoner to show the locations of more victims. Which would never happen. They'd wait til better weather in spring or summer. Or not do it at all, since he's murdered 30 people across many states. Ridiculous). Everybody dies, Jennifer saves the day, yada yada.
I have a lot of problems with this book. First, there end up being 3 slashers. Yes. Three. The escaped serial killer who is made of of myths and legends (they say he's 112 years old. They say he's a raised victim of the Indian massacre 90 years ago), one of the characters from the previous novel who apparently has been hiding her desire to kill as many Proofrock people as Terra Nova people were killed last time, and a raised spirit of a child who drowned in the lake and for some inexplicable reason looks like a white stag and gores people. I mean, come on.
Also, Jade starts the book as Jennifer, a healed, whole person. And then at the end she starts correcting people who call her Jennifer, and saying "it's Jade". And I'm sure the author meant this as a return to her "final girl" status or what the fuck ever, but that ignores the fact that she left that suicidal, slasher-obsessed teenager behind.
The one thing I appreciated here was that Jade and Letha were strong women. That's about all though, unfortunately.
I have a lot of problems with this book. First, there end up being 3 slashers. Yes. Three. The escaped serial killer who is made of of myths and legends (they say he's 112 years old. They say he's a raised victim of the Indian massacre 90 years ago), one of the characters from the previous novel who apparently has been hiding her desire to kill as many Proofrock people as Terra Nova people were killed last time, and a raised spirit of a child who drowned in the lake and for some inexplicable reason looks like a white stag and gores people. I mean, come on.
Also, Jade starts the book as Jennifer, a healed, whole person. And then at the end she starts correcting people who call her Jennifer, and saying "it's Jade". And I'm sure the author meant this as a return to her "final girl" status or what the fuck ever, but that ignores the fact that she left that suicidal, slasher-obsessed teenager behind.
The one thing I appreciated here was that Jade and Letha were strong women. That's about all though, unfortunately.