How long does it take to read My Heart Is a Chainsaw?
My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones takes about 7 hours 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of The Indian Lake Trilogy
Next: Don't Fear the Reaper
About 7 hours 38 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2021. 416 pages, about 114,400 words. Written for young adults.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 38 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 46 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
You won’t find a more hardcore eighties-slasher-film fan than high school senior Jade Daniels. And you won’t find a place less supportive of girls who wear torn T-shirts and too much eyeliner than Proofrock, nestled eight thousand feet up a mountain in Idaho, alongside Indian Lake, home to both Camp Blood – site of a massacre fifty years ago – and, as of this summer, Terra Nova, a second-home celebrity Camelot being carved out of a national forest. That’s not the only thing that’s getting carved up, though – this, Jade knows, is the start of a slasher. But what kind? Who’s wearing the mask? Jade’s got an encyclopedic recall of every horror movie on the shelf, but… will that help her survive? Can she get a final girl trained enough to stop all this from happening? Does she even want to? Isn’t a slasher exactly what her hometown deserves?
Subjects: Horror films, Fiction, Psychic trauma, Teenage girls, Abused children, Revenge
