Her physical presence at graduation is only a formality, and she is forced to write an extra-credit assignment for her history teacher to gain the credits she needs to pass. At school, she’s a credit short from graduating. Her father is an abusive alcoholic (and we later learn, molested her sexually at the age of eleven) who allows his inappropriate friends around her. Teenager Jade Daniels is in understandable rebellion. My Heart is a Chainsaw Stephan Graham Jones And yet it’s also a near-perfect character study of a high school senior trying to cope with a less-than-idea life and severe trauma and managing to come out the other end better. With a heavy nod toward the slasher genre and a rootable heroine who is breathtakingly, excitingly unforgettable, the book wraps itself around the reader and squeezes until they forget to breathe. The volume begins with an atmospheric, gory, bloody murder and never backs off of its breakneck pace from there. My Heart is a Chainsaw feels like it was made for me, and me personally, which is always a wonderful thing to feel when you open a book. I’d say MHIAC it’s made for teenagers sixteen years old and older. Content warning: Self-harm, suicide, and emotional, physical, and sexual abuse.
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