Description
In this darkly inventive novel, a community’s ordinary rhythms fracture under the pressure of death, grief, and the stories people tell to survive them. As a series of unsettling events draws characters toward the edge of what they can explain, the book blends suspense with lyrical, genre-bending intensity to explore how fear can be both a weapon and a refuge. Stephen Graham Jones’s sharp, propulsive style turns the act of confronting mortality into a broader meditation on violence, identity, and the myths that shape our responses to loss. With its haunting atmosphere and restless imagination, this is a story for readers who want horror that thinks—about what we owe the dead, and what we’re willing to become to keep going.
Available Editions
paperback
Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Published Jan 1, 2022
464 pages
ISBN: 9781982186593
Reviews
1 rating
Community Reviews(1)
dnf at 41%. this was such a crushing, soul-sucking, gutting disappointment. i loved my heart is a chainsaw and spent months excitedly waiting to read this. but it turns out what gave my heart is a chainsaw any of its self proclaimed heart was completely absent here.<br/><br/>i loved the idea of jennifer trying so hard to not be who she used to be that she’s become a non-believing adult and letha being so wrapped up in her final girldom that she’s become who jennifer used to be. but the rest falls apart from there. i didn’t even remember who banner was and had o read a book 1 recap…<br/><br/>the story is tangled in a pit of POV swaps without headers, nonlinear memory recalls, and less than mentally sound conversations leading nowhere. it’s nearly impossible to keep up with even if you perfectly remember the first book. what made the first book such a good story was how connective it’s tissue was, how well written our in-the-know character is, and that nonlinear diversions or POV were few and far enough between that they were comprehensible. i am genuinely so disappointed that this book fell apart for me.
Details
First Published
2022
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones.