It is clear on almost every page of this book that the only person more in love with slasher movies than Stephen Graham Jones is our main POV Jennifer Daniels AKA Jade. My Heart is a Chainsaw is the love letter wrapped inside of socially aware horror novel. This book actually is the thing that taught me that. I love stories about werewolves but I am not a slasher fan. Mongrels worked in part because it was a love letter to werewolf movies, novels, and myths. Here is the funny thing I did not like My Heart is A Chainsaw nearly as much as the last three SGJ books I read but that is in part because of the impossibly high bar this dude has set. The hardest part of reviewing his books is not using hyperbole because he is so goddamn great. Stephen Graham Jones is an author who I like as a person and a storyteller. Those books are not the only genius but they affected me deeply as I read them. On a 5-star scale, it was a twelve if I could give that novel all the missing stars from all four and three stars books I read in those years I would have. The amount that I love that novel and Mongrels is hard to chart honestly. It was my top read of the year, Jeremy Robert Johnson and I took time out of HIS interview to proclaim the NEED to throw all the awards at the book. I was worried when I reviewed the Only Good Indian that I was drifting into hyperbole.
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