dare reviewed My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)
Jade Daniels is an angry, half-Indian outcast with an abusive father, an absent mother, and …
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2 stars
Indulgent, at times brilliant but mostly just messy and unsatisfying story with an interesting protagonist that it then ends up wasting on a convoluted mess of a plot. Where I thought Chainsaw was going turned out to be more interesting than where it actually was going.
(Also: I found the endless references annoying. Yes, we've seen all the 80s slashers, yes, we all love them, but just referencing them is not paying homage to them, it's just ... name-dropping.)