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Das Beste sind die Augen by Monika Kim

328 reviews

katiecat22's review against another edition

3.25

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abbyc23's review against another edition

4.0

dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This book was DIABOLICAL and disgusting but I weirdly loved it. It definitely will not be for everyone. I honestly gagged multiple times but Ji-Won is a bad ass (and also f*cked in the head).

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thegayestghost's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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fruitbowol's review against another edition

2.75

dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Really good commentary and I loved how you could see the main character spiral into insanity throughout the book; but I just couldn’t get past the authors writing. Her style really wasn’t for me.

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ghostpuppets's review against another edition

2.5

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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melodyseestrees's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This is such an unnerving read that also proves one can be a horror read without animal-based gruesome scenes. There are fish but they're already dead and no more gruesome than any other meat.
None of the characters are really great. They're all very human and flawed.
There is a character who is playing 4d chess with everyone around them and I found it fascinating to read.

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cosmoscryptid's review against another edition

5.0

dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Good for her.

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the_peculiar_path's review against another edition

3.5

dark funny fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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pbraue13's review against another edition

3.75

dark emotional tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

“The eyes always watch. They don’t forget. They don’t forgive.”
— Monika Kim, The Eyes are the Best Part

Monika Kim’s The Eyes are the Best Part is a hypnotic, horror-laced descent into familial collapse, grief-fueled rage, and deeply earned revenge. Told through the fractured lens of Ji-won—a Korean American college student unraveling after her father’s betrayal and abandonment—this novel is equal parts nightmare and triumph. It’s a striking debut that pulses with emotional truth and surreal, bloody tension.

Ji-won’s world is spiraling: her Appa has left, her Umma is adrift, and her little sister looks to her for stability she no longer has. On top of that, George—her mother’s smug, racist, grotesquely overfamiliar new boyfriend—has slithered into their home like a parasite. George is, without exaggeration, one of the worst male villains I’ve ever read. He’s a masterclass in insufferable entitlement, a man who thinks charm can disguise lechery, and it’s so satisfying to watch Kim peel back the layers of his toxicity, until all that's left is the rot beneath.

And Ji-won? She becomes something monstrous. Something powerful. Her dreams bleed into reality: rooms filled with eyes, dripping red and hungry blue. The way Kim weaves these surreal dreamscapes into Ji-won’s waking life is mesmerizing, blurring the line between vengeance and becoming. There’s an intoxicating tension throughout—what is real, what is fantasy, and does it even matter when rage is so righteous?

Kim’s prose is sharp, sensual, and brimming with dread. Ji-won is a flawed, complicated protagonist who refuses to play victim, even as she teeters toward something feral. Her hunger is terrifying, but in Kim’s capable hands, it’s also just. The violence here isn’t empty—it’s personal, and necessary.

The Eyes are the Best Part is a haunting meditation on trauma, girlhood, and the intoxicating lure of power when you’ve been powerless too long. It’s a slow-burn scream of a book—and by the end, when justice is finally served with blood and teeth, you’ll want to stand up and cheer.

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xthankyouplantbasedgodx's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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