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A review by ayts
The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim
dark
5.0
"A fool and his eyes are easily parted." I requested this book primarily because the title and cover are so disturbing I was immediately intrigued. And the story did not disappoint. It's as disturbing and gory as a book with a human eye separated from its head on the cover should be.
We meet Ji-won and her Mother and Sister after her Father has abandoned his family for another woman. A few months afterwards her Mother announces that she's seeing someone, a white man named George. George is a disgusting person with the most enticing and delicious looking blue eyes who fetishizes Asian women. Once Ji-won realizes it's up to her to protect herself and her family from the disgusting men in the world, her mental stability quickly begins to spiral as she plots revenge against men who think "...that we are demonstrably inferior to our male counterparts. We are smaller, weaker, stupider. When we succeed, it’s only because men allow us to." Ji-won seeks to prove those fools wrong.
I read this story in one sitting! Ji-won is a fascinating unhinged fmc that I couldn't wait to read more of her descent into madness.
We meet Ji-won and her Mother and Sister after her Father has abandoned his family for another woman. A few months afterwards her Mother announces that she's seeing someone, a white man named George. George is a disgusting person with the most enticing and delicious looking blue eyes who fetishizes Asian women. Once Ji-won realizes it's up to her to protect herself and her family from the disgusting men in the world, her mental stability quickly begins to spiral as she plots revenge against men who think "...that we are demonstrably inferior to our male counterparts. We are smaller, weaker, stupider. When we succeed, it’s only because men allow us to." Ji-won seeks to prove those fools wrong.
I read this story in one sitting! Ji-won is a fascinating unhinged fmc that I couldn't wait to read more of her descent into madness.