Ambiguously Gay: Jade's reaction when Letha questions her non-existent history with boys? 'Maybe I'm not into guys.'.Abusive Parents: Tab Daniels is blatantly stated to be abusive towards his daughter, to say nothing of the fact that he's also sexually abused her.The sequel, Don't Fear the Reaper, was released in 2023, and follows Jade's return to Proofrock a few years after being exonerated of the crimes that take place in the first novel - at the same time that notorious Native serial killer Dark Mill South escapes from prison himself. The novel is the first in the Indian Lake trilogy. As she digs up the history of the town, she also sets out to assist the apparent Final Girl, Letha Mondragon, in surviving the events that follow. However, as blood spills in the lake, Jade will have to use her encyclopedic knowledge of horror films to make sense of what's going on. Jade Daniels is a half-Indian girl living in Proofrock, a town that wants nothing to do with her, growing up with an abusive father and an absent mother. The novel focuses on a quickly gentrifying town rocked by a series of brutal murders and a half-Indigenous girl's journey as she tries to navigate the bloodbath and the rules of the genre. Or maybe it wasn’t a whole net of fish-they can’t do that here in inland America, can they?-but one or two of the really big fish, pulled up from the very bottom of the lake.My Heart Is A Chainsaw is a 2021 Slasher drama novel written by Stephen Graham Jones.

She coughs again, has to close her eyes to keep from throwing up. Some men from the town gutted a big haul of them over the side of their boat, the intestines and non-meaty parts adhering together with the congealing blood to make a gooey floating scab. She covers herself with her arms, sits on her heels as best she can.Īnd now she knows what that smell has to be: fish guts. “Sven!” she calls to the blackness encroaching from all sides, now. what? A mat of algae? Lake scum? At this altitude, snow still in the ditches? She dry heaves, falls to her knees from it.

He slips in almost without a sound, just one gulp and gone.Īlone on the canoe now, Lotte stands unsteadily, the back of her hand coming instantly up to her nose, her mouth-the smell from whatever stringy grossness Sven dragged in over the side.

My heart was a chainsaw