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

dark mysterious 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? No

3.25

This was ok. I liked seeing Jade be delulu about how she is living out a slasher. I feel like I didn't know enough about slashers to understand all of Jade's references and it sorta took me out of the story. It also took me a while to differentiate the names of the town members and founders. I think I was also confused sometimes on how X would lead to Y. I was interested in how the ending would be revealed
I was anticipating the supernatural element throughout the novel
and the ending was also pretty gory with some of the descriptions.
"Growing up, staring out over the water, what she'd always imagined was some monster fish spurting up through the glistening surface, snatching a bird or three, then splashing back down. Anything to break the boredom"
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