My Heart Is a Chainsaw
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My Heart Is a Chainsaw

by Stephen Graham Jones

2021•Horror•416 pages

Taste attributes: horrorthrillerteenfresh & originalunsavouryheavyimaginaryglossyenclosedemotive & stirringtroubled leadssolving the riddle/not as it seemssocial commentary

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Boxlist takeA dark horror novel that is contained, serious and stirring. Best if you like edge over warmth.

Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: very dark · Weight: heavy · Realism: balanced · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score

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3.2 / 5

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About This Book

You won’t find a more hardcore eighties-slasher-film fan than high school senior Jade Daniels. And you won’t find a place less supportive of girls who wear torn T-shirts and too much eyeliner than Proofrock, nestled eight thousand feet up a mountain in Idaho, alongside Indian Lake, home to both Camp Blood – site of a massacre fifty years ago – and, as of this summer, Terra Nova, a second-home celebrity Camelot being...

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Characteristics

Where this book sits on each taste spectrum

SlowPACEFast
FamiliarORIGINALITYOriginal
DarkTONEWholesome
LightWEIGHTINESSHeavy
FantasyREALISMRealistic
SimpleINTRICACYIntricate
Non-LinearLINEARITYLinear
UnderstatedSTYLEStylised
IntimateSCALEEpic
RestrainedEMOTIONIntense

Genres and themes

HorrorThrillerTeenTroubled leadsSolving the riddle/not as it seemsSocial commentary

Subjects

Horror filmsPsychic traumaTeenage girlsAbused childrenRevengeFilms d'horreurTraumatisme psychiqueAdolescentes

Details

Author
Stephen Graham Jones
Published
2021
Pages
416
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