My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

 My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones-416 pages

Jennifer "Jade" Daniels is seventeen and the half-Indian weird slasher chick in the small town of Proofrock, Idaho. Her childhood was traumatic and she lives with her Blackfoot dad, who contributed to that trauma. Her father is a drunk and lives out his high school days with his old high school buddies. Jade really, really wants a slasher cycle to come to Proofrock (or so she thinks, at least). Jade wrote papers on slasher history for her history teacher, Mr. Holmes, all throughout high school. Jade attempts suicide in Indian Lake, where local legend says Stacey Graves, the Lake Witch, resides. Stacey Graves died decades ago, but supposedly still haunts Indian Lake, where she died as an 8-year-old. When people start turning up dead, Jade thinks a slasher cycle is finally happening in Proofrock. She meets a new girl from Terra Nova, the new rich town on the other side of Indian Lake, named Letha Mondragon. Jade thinks Letha is the final girl of this supposed slasher. However, when more and more bodies start to pile up and Jade and Letha are in the middle of it, Jade realizes real life is starkly different from a slasher film. She realizes maybe she didn't want a slasher in Proofrock, after all. Will Jade survive the slasher and what about Letha? Is she really the final girl as Jade believes? Who is the killer? Is it really the Lake Witch or is it someone like Theo Mondragon (or someone else)? This one starts out slow, but the last 100 or so pages kept me on the edge of my seat. I liked this one, overall, and would recommend it to horror enthusiasts.