Book guide
My Heart Is a Chainsaw
A slasher-obsessed outcast may be the only one who sees the blood coming.
Genre and trope pairingsThrillerSecret pastThrillerSerial killerHorrorTrauma recoveryHorrorFinal girlHorrorSlasherHorrorSerial killer
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About My Heart Is a Chainsaw
In Proofrock, Idaho, Jade Daniels copes with trauma by filtering life through horror movies, especially slashers. When real bodies start turning up around Indian Lake, her encyclopedic genre knowledge becomes a terrifying map of what might happen next.
Reading signals
- Spice
- Light
- Darkness
- Dark
- Pacing
- Fast
Series
The Indian Lake Trilogy · Book 1 of 3
Content warnings
- racism
- sexual harassment
- nonconsensual voyeurism involving children
- child sexual abuse
- rape of a child
- incest
- child pregnancy
- parental alcoholism
- attempted suicide
- suicidal ideation
- self-harm
- graphic blood and gore
- dead bodies
- vomit
- animal abuse
