e-Audio, 09:16:22
Narrated by: Jaine Ye
Release Date: July 9, 2024
Published by: Recorded Books, Inc
Read from: July 21-22, 2024
Stand-Alone
Source: Library’s Libby
Content Warning: Cannibalism, Body horror, Gore, Racism, Stalking, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racial Slurs, Vomit
For Readers Interested In: Horror (Body Horror), Thriller, Racial/Ethnic Diversity (Asian, Korean), Adult, Good Cross Over Potential (depending on the reader)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.
*MY THOUGHTS*
So the only horror that is really hard for me to read and actually really freaks me out now is Body Horror. More specifically, cannibalism. So, naturally, as soon as I saw this cover, I PLACED A HOLD ON IT AS SOON AS I COULD.
Ok, so that makes me sound a bit unhinged, but its true. I don’t really get why I wanted to read this so bad, but I had to get my hands on it. And though it took too long to get started, I still enjoyed it. And the cannibalism thing was still just as gross and just as wrong lol
Ok so this wasn’t BAD, but it’s a slow burn. And idk if y’all have met me or even read any review of mine before, but I am not a fan of them. I usually would have DNFed this, but someone told me this would be a good YA/A crossover. So I stuck it out. As it turns out, the main character’s mom is getting married to a gross individual who fetishizes Asian women. I think I was more grossed out about that than the eyeballs. Anyway, she was also stressed about school, and her younger sister as well. It all piled up and she lost it. Throughout the story we get dreams of her thinking about his eyes, staring into his eyes, and stuff, but never anything really bad until the end. And by then I was annoyed lol
The ending was where I couldn’t put it down. I was a tad bit mad that she waited all this time to get to that part. If the rest of this had been as good as that part, I would have rated this 5 stars. But alas, we don’t get the digging out and eating part until the like last 25%. I was annoyed, but by then I was determined to finish it. BUT it finally wasn’t hard for me to do so.
There’s other things that happen in this story, obviously, but I think that’s enough spoilers from me. I don’t want to say too much more, but that one person got what they deserved too lol
Overall, I give this
