My Heart Is a Chainsaw
Loved this book! Jade Daniels. half Indigenous, is one of my new favorite characters, with her obsessive and impressive knowledge of horror slasher films. They're her comfort, after a childhood of abuse and neglect. When she begins to suspect her sleepy town is about to be the scene of a real life slasher's reign of terror, she identifies the new girl, Letha Mondragon, as the Final Girl. The ingredients are: Camp Blood; the legend of a creepy and tragic lake witch; and wealthy founders gentrifying the area. The characters--who would be stock in a slasher--are vividly and poignantly portrayed. Unlike the cannon fodder in slasher movies, though, these are characters you'll genuinely care about. Jade is endearingly complicated, smart, and funny, and her hunch proves to be true during the gory horror of the reveal.