chainsaws 's review for:

My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

3.0

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

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Just like all good slashers, has an absolutely shit ending for no reason. 

Which is to say, I was SO ready to give this a crisp 5 stars. Jade is so loveable, the plot was interesting, the reveal that

Theo Mondragon was the killer!

It was brilliant. And then

Theo wasn't the killer, the supernatural girl in the lake was -- which feels cheap as the whole book had been fairly rooted in reality and the lake witch completely took me out of it. Though, I think Theo still was??? He definitely killed those construction workers. The final act being just a long stint of chaotic violence?? I'm as much of a slasher fan as Jade is, I love slashers, I love gore. But it felt pointless and rushed. Also why was the teacher brought back just to be killed 30 seconds later? And don't tell me it's a reference to slashers because i know it is, I've seen them all, I also hate it when it happens in slashers. The writing became sloppy and confusing in a way where I was convinced that Jade was going to wake up back under that pile of elk (about where it started getting stupid imo) and it had all just been a oxygen deprived hallucination, which I think I would have preferred to what we got.