Loved itBecause Jade frickin Daniels, everybody is one of my favorite characters in the last five year period. End of story. She's amazing.
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My Heart Is a Chainsaw (2021)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive You won’t find a more hardcore eighties-slasher-film fan than high school senior Jade Daniels. And you won’t find a place less supportive of girls who wear torn T-shirts and too much eyeliner than Proofrock, nestled eight thousand feet up a mountain in Idaho, alongside Indian Lake, home to both Camp Blood – site of a massacre fifty years ago – and, as of this summer, Terra Nova, a second-home celebrity Camelot being carved out of a national forest. That’s not the only thing that’s getting carved up, though – this, Jade knows, is the start of a slasher. But what kind? Who’s wearing the mask? Jade’s got an encyclopedic recall of every horror movie on the shelf, but… will that help her survive? Can she get a final girl trained enough to stop all this from happening? Does she even want to? Isn’t a slasher exactly what her hometown deserves?
- ISBN:
- 9781982137632
- Length:
- 416 pages
Genres: horror, mystery, thriller
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Loved itMy Heart is a Chainsaw I kind of think fits in the Obsession one, but even more so at this point it looks great in media commentary because she's obsessed with horror films.
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Loved itonce I got invested into our main character Jade I was really kicking myself that it was sitting on my shelf for so long... it was just such a fun Charming read
Loved itthis is like a love letter to every slasher movie a great female protagonist a great setting on the lake like all the old slasher films it's like an Easter eggs of so many slasher films if you're looking for a fun spooky read and you like slasher flicks this is it
Loved itthis book was heart-wrenching and also so incredibly fun