Reviews tagging 'Stalking'

Das Beste sind die Augen by Monika Kim

259 reviews

smudgebeeb's review against another edition

5.0

dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Stalking

essie101's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Stalking, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail

tim_reads2's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad 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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I enjoyed this one - not a top pick for me, but I think my main issue was the pacing. I struggled in the middle when nothing had quite happened yet. Loved the ending 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Racism, Stalking

imanniz's review against another edition

5.0

dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book fits into the “unhinged woman” genre. The story features the main character, a Korean-American whose father recently left their family due to an affair. The absence of the father affected all of them deeply, especially the mother. To fill in the void, the mother started dating a white man. Meanwhile, the main character struggles with starting university, the broken friendship with her high school friends and the fetishization of Asian women by the students at her university and her mother’s white boyfriend. She begins to descend into an obsession with blue eyes, as her mother’s boyfriend has blue eyes.

The main character’s hyperfixation on blue eyes went up a notch and she begins to commit murders just to obtain blue eyes for her to eat them. The ending is quite clever as the main character pinned the blame of the murders on her friend/stalker.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Racial slurs, Violence, Cannibalism, Murder, Abandonment

Moderate: Stalking

Minor: Infidelity

colleen4090's review against another edition

5.0

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Love love loved this so much!! I support women’s rights and wrongs and in my opinion Ji-Won did absolutely no wrong. The men had it coming to them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Stalking

atcochra's review against another edition

4.0

dark mysterious tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder

Moderate: Pedophilia, Stalking

roslink's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore

Moderate: Racial slurs, Sexism, Stalking, Suicide attempt

honksywonksy's review against another edition

4.75

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Racism, Violence, Cannibalism, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Cultural appropriation, Toxic friendship

Minor: Vomit, Stalking

abelle's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Blood, Cannibalism, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Infidelity, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting

Minor: Stalking, Toxic friendship

thatpansyboy's review against another edition

4.25

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Cannibalism, Abandonment

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Gore, Stalking, Murder, Alcohol, Sexual harassment

Read in one day out of sheer curiosity & being gripped by the story. It being written with such short chapters makes it fly by. Creepy fun that also has some interesting things to say about the intersections of sexism and anti-Asian racism. Would definitely recc to others, I don't think you need a super strong stomach or a love of horror to appreciate this novel as it doesn't push too far into gore or horror despite the subject matter, but if you have a thing about eyes.... maybe give it a miss. I hope this author writes more because she has a way of keeping your attention that I really enjoyed.