Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Probably the most creative werewolf book you’ll ever read.

Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones

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Oh, dang, I thought I had written a review of this one, but going through all my 2022 books to Review Amnesty, I see I have in fact, not done so. Real quick, if you’re looking for a starter horror/starter Stephen Graham Jones, this one might actually be a great book to read. And this book isn’t even all that horrific. It’s only really classified as horror because werewolves and because Stephen Graham Jones, but it’s really a coming of age story about a young […]

My Heart Is a Chainsaw

My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

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I honestly don’t know what to say about this book besides it did not hang together very well. I just could not get into it. I think the main character (Jade) was kind of insufferable for most of the book. And the interludes in between those chapters didn’t help me to stay engaged. I think this was what I said about the other books of Graham Jones’s that I read. Good thoughts, but bad execution. I put this book down several times this year because […]

Stephen Graham Jones is a genius. That is my opinion but it is a correct one. #CBRBINGO – New

My Heart is a Chainsaw (The Lake Witch Trilogy, #1) by Stephen Graham Jones

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I am having such a good reading summer. I have had a plethora of five-star reads, including this gem. Also, this book tried to kill me by making me feel too many feelings. Fitting, with the body count and the genre. Like all the books I really love and that give me feelings, especially when I’m not quite sure where those feelings are coming from, I am having a really hard time reviewing My Heart is a Chainsaw. Jade is a teenaged girl in a […]

This is the slasher send-up I wanted

My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

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TW: abuse, alcoholism, self-harm, suicide BINGO: COLD [a portion of the story takes place in the frozen Idaho winter; also there are some cold-blooded murders] Jade is obsessed with horror movies. Specifically she loves slashers. She knows everything there is to know about the movies, the plots, the directors, the film-making process, everything. It is her entire life and personality, to a fault. She doesn’t have much else to do in a small town in Proofrock, Idaho. She even weaves in her slasher obsession into her […]

What Else Would You Look With?

My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

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Promising: Maybe every final girl in the history of final girls has had a horror chick whispering to her from just off-screen. Maybe this isn’t a deviation but the usual build. Just one nobody ever knows about until they’re smack-dab in the beating heart of it. What? Jade looks at him with just her eyes. Stephen Graham Jones’ My Heart is a Chainsaw is an uneven horror story that follows Jade, an alienated teenager who is obsessed with slasher films. Happenings in her town indicate […]

BRB, renting all the slashers

My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

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My first experience with Jones was The Only Good Indians a couple years ago, and from super eerie cover to last page, I was well and truly hooked. When I saw that his newest was available in Libby I jumped right on it – and I was not disappointed! Jade Daniels lives in the tiny town of Proofrock, Idaho. Jade is a self-proclaimed Horror Girl, who has watched so many slasher movies that she’s started to see the world around her through that lens. When […]



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