Review by imanniz - The Eyes Are the Best Part

imanniz 's review for:

The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim

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

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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