A review by grimalkintoes
My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

challenging dark emotional slow-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

5.0

Stephen Graham Jones’ My Heart is a Chainsaw is a love letter to slasher films. The genre lovingly rips through the pages, grotesque prose splattered in the aftermath. Chainsaw is an emotional tale of trauma and rebirth, the final girl howling through pain and embodied suffering — turning into a howl of triumph, comforting at the bitter end. 

“…now that she's dying she can say it, at least to herself: the reason she needed a slasher to come to town, it was so he could cleave through her dad at some point in the rampage.”