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The Eyes Are the Best Part von Monika Kim
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The Eyes Are the Best Part (2024. Auflage)

von Monika Kim (Autor)

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Crying in H-Mart meets My Sister, the Serial Killer in this feminist psychological horror about the making of a female serial killer from a Korean-American perspective. Ji-won's life tumbles into disarray in the wake of her Appa's extramarital affair and subsequent departure. Her mother, distraught. Her younger sister, hurt and confused. Her college freshman grades, failing. Her dreams, horrifying... yet enticing.  In them, Ji-won walks through bloody rooms full of eyes. Succulent blue eyes. Salivatingly blue eyes. Eyes the same shape and shade as George's, who is Umma's obnoxious new boyfriend. George has already overstayed his welcome in her family's claustrophobic apartment. He brags about his puffed-up consulting job, ogles Asian waitresses while dining out, and acts condescending toward Ji-won and her sister as if he deserves all of Umma's fawning adoration. No, George doesn't deserve anything from her family. Ji-won will make sure of that.  For no matter how many victims accumulate around her campus or how many people she must deceive and manipulate, Ji-won's hunger and her rage deserve to be sated.  A brilliantly inventive, subversive novel about a young woman unraveling, Monika Kim's The Eyes Are the Best Part is a story of a family falling apart and trying to find their way back to each other, marking a bold new voice in horror that will leave readers mesmerized and craving more.… (mehr)
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Titel:The Eyes Are the Best Part
Autoren:Monika Kim (Autor)
Info:Erewhon Books (2024), 288 pages
Sammlungen:Kindle, Deine Bibliothek
Bewertung:*****
Tags:horror, netgalley

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Add another incredible character to the Unhinged Women Literary Universe!

Ji-won is a first-year college student living at home with her parents and younger sister. When her father suddenly leaves the family, they are all set on a path none of them expected. Ji-won's mother meets George, a disgusting white man with an insidious Asian fetish and Ji-won does everything she can to hold what remains of her family together. Unfortunately the hardest person to keep in check is herself.

I loved every second of this book. The path to destruction Ji-won walks feels at once sudden and gradual. Her obsession with blue eyeballs rockets her into actions she would never have thought possible, but somehow I was rooting for her the entire way.

I support women's wrongs, especially Ji-won's wrongs!

Thanks to NetGalley and Kengsington Books for providing an advance copy in exchange for an honest review. ( )
  sublunarie | May 11, 2024 |
Thank you to Netgalley for this ARC!

This was great! Twisty, surreal, and GROSS. It was fast paced, but still built tension as the characters fought, and you really had a good mix of sympathy for the main character, despite her actions. Plus the twists at the end! Really well done. ( )
  eboods | Feb 28, 2024 |
I love a good unhinged girlie book!

Everything seems to be falling apart for Ji-won after her dad walks out on her family for another woman. Ji-won starts failing her first semester of college, she starts having nightmares, and her mom starts dating a creepy, gross white guy named George.

After Ji-won meets George she starts getting an insatiable obsession over blue eyes, and not just George's.

The Eyes Are the Best Part had me fully immersed from page one. Not only is this a fantastic psychological horror story, it's also a wonderfully written story about feminism and family.

I loved that this book was in first person POV. I enjoyed reading about Ji-won and her family, and everybody felt so real that I found myself getting uncomfortable and disgusted alongside Ji-won whenever she talked to George or her college classmate, Geoffrey.

The Eyes Are the Best Part is a fast-paced "good for her" horror story that I found extremely difficult to put down. I highly, highly recommend checking this out when it releases on June 25, 2024.

A big thank you to NetGalley and to Erewhon Books for the gifted copy! I can't wait to read more from Monika Kim! ( )
  hisghoulfriday | Dec 20, 2023 |
I was first drawn to this book by the cover. I had to read it. It did not disappoint. I was hooked and the slow development of Ji-won from daughter to ki!!er was really good. Yet, it was not just about her killing, there was a deeper meaning behind the ki!!ings. To be I thought that the reason Ji-won was attracted to "eyes" is because they are the windows to the soul.

I don't blame Ji-won for her resentment towards her mother, Umma new man, George. George is despicable, crude towards Ji-won and her sister, Ji-hyun and other cultures. Every time that he opened his mouth I wanted to st@b him with a fork. The way that he did not even want to take the time to learn how to properly pronounce Ji-won and Ji-hyun but call them JW and JH had me seeing red. As an Asian myself, this really pissed me off.

Let's just say that it almost was like I could hear the squish and taste the saltiness of the "eyes. This is how great the author was at writing this story. Giving my really good, descriptions to conjure visual and sensory images. This book needs to be on your must-read list for 2024! ( )
  Cherylk | Dec 19, 2023 |
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Crying in H-Mart meets My Sister, the Serial Killer in this feminist psychological horror about the making of a female serial killer from a Korean-American perspective. Ji-won's life tumbles into disarray in the wake of her Appa's extramarital affair and subsequent departure. Her mother, distraught. Her younger sister, hurt and confused. Her college freshman grades, failing. Her dreams, horrifying... yet enticing.  In them, Ji-won walks through bloody rooms full of eyes. Succulent blue eyes. Salivatingly blue eyes. Eyes the same shape and shade as George's, who is Umma's obnoxious new boyfriend. George has already overstayed his welcome in her family's claustrophobic apartment. He brags about his puffed-up consulting job, ogles Asian waitresses while dining out, and acts condescending toward Ji-won and her sister as if he deserves all of Umma's fawning adoration. No, George doesn't deserve anything from her family. Ji-won will make sure of that.  For no matter how many victims accumulate around her campus or how many people she must deceive and manipulate, Ji-won's hunger and her rage deserve to be sated.  A brilliantly inventive, subversive novel about a young woman unraveling, Monika Kim's The Eyes Are the Best Part is a story of a family falling apart and trying to find their way back to each other, marking a bold new voice in horror that will leave readers mesmerized and craving more.

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