My Heart Is a Chainsaw

*2.5 stars - for concepts and originality. But the best parts of Chainsaw were those concepts and that originality. The execution was flat and emotionless and if you didn't connect with Jade's stream-of-consciousnesses, then you were simply left to slog through. And I did, and I'm glad of it, if for nothing more than the Acknowledgments, where Jones hooked me and made me care more than he had in the 375 plus pages preceding. I wanted to love this book, but I couldn't. However, Jones remains a “try every time” author for me now - despite this miss. Mannequins and Indians were very good and even this, despite not landing, was too unique not to applaud the effort.