Horror fans won’t need to have seen all of the films referenced to be blown away by this audacious extravaganza. Meanwhile, the tension builds to a graphic finale perfectly appropriate for the novel’s cinematic scope. Genres HorrorFictionThriller MysteryAdultAudiobookMystery Thriller. Jones weaves an astonishing amount of slasher film lore into his novel, punctuating the text with short term papers written by Jade on the history and functions of the genre. My Heart Is a Chainsaw is her story, her homage to horror and revenge and triumph.
Certain that the deaths presage a bloody slaughter, she tries-with little credulity from authorities-to warn the town of what is coming. When a spate of bizarre deaths targeting the wealthy residents of Proofrock’s newly developed Terra Nova community rocks the town, Jade recognizes all of the elements of her favorite films’ formulae at play. Its outsider heroine is Jade Daniels, an affectionately cheeky 17-year-old high schooler of Blackfoot descent, who finds escape from her dead-end life in rural Proofrock, Idaho, by gorging on a steady diet of slasher flicks.
called a literary master by National Book Award winner Tananarive Due and one of our most. Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel In her quickly gentrifying rural lake town Jade sees recent events only her encyclopedic knowledge of horror. Jones ( The Only Good Indians) expertly mixes the frightening and the funny in this no-holds-barred homage to classic horror tropes written under the heady influence of splatter films. My Heart is a Chainsaw is a love letter to slasher films.
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