This carries over into her school work particularly state history papers that she handed into her favourite teacher, and somehow received credit for. She’s constantly thinking about final girls and villains, as well as the unique back stories of some of horror’s best and lesser known villains. It’s Jade’s love of horror movies - particularly slasher films - that gets her through her crappy teenage existence, along with looking forward to the day she will leave the area behind.Īs someone who views slasher movies as her own, personal religion, Jade is a girl whose head is stuck in the clouds. Living in the small and wooded town of Proofrock, Idaho, she finds herself bored and taken advantage of by a drunken father who shouldn’t be responsible for children. My Heart is a Chainsaw centres upon Jennifer ‘Jade’ Daniels, a Native American teenager of seventeen years of age. Now I’m back to talk about his latest novel, My Heart is a Chainsaw, which we were provided by its Canadian publisher. Although it took me some time to get into that particular book, I ended up liking it quite a bit and found it easy to recommend to those with patience, and those who were looking for something original.

Last time I reviewed something by this author, it was The Only Good Indians, which marked my first time reading anything by Stephen Graham Jones. Don’t get me wrong, though: I appreciate the look into Native culture as well.

His way of writing is so different from almost any other author I’ve ever read, and it’s that which I’m really trying to get at here. Jones is Native American, and how his books often involve those from his own culture, but it’s more than that. When it comes to horror, few writers are more unique than Stephen Graham Jones, who brings a different type of voice to the genre.

My heart is a chainsaw movie