A girl whose feelings are too big for her body.”įirst thing’s first: Stephen Graham Jones is a fantastic writer. Yet, even as Jade drags us into her dark fever dream, a surprising and intimate portrait emerges… a portrait of the scared and traumatized little girl beneath the Jason Voorhees mask: angry, yes, but also a girl who easily cries, fiercely loves, and desperately wants a home. But when blood actually starts to spill into the waters of Indian Lake, she pulls us into her dizzying, encyclopedic mind of blood and masked murderers, and predicts exactly how the plot will unfold. And Jade narrates the quirky history of Proofrock as if it is one of those movies. She lives in her own world, a world in which protection comes from an unusual source: horror movies…especially the ones where a masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them. The plot: “Jade Daniels is an angry, half-Indian outcast with an abusive father, an absent mother, and an entire town that wants nothing to do with her. But while certain portions of this novel sang to the gory ’n spooky-loving parts of my soul, a lot of it felt like watching Friday the 13th’s 2009 remake for the first time - I went in with high expectations, but was, If I’m being honest, let down (for the most part). "ℌ□□□□□ □□ □□ □□□□□□□□."Īs a horror fanatic, specifically of the slasher genre, My Heart Is a Chainsaw’s premise gripped me like Jason Vorhees’ soggy fingers grip Alice as his decomposing corpse rises from the lake in Friday the 13th for one final scare.
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