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A review by sararose_cozy
The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim
4.0
Thank you to NetGalley and Kensington Books for this ARC. This is my honest review.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 stars.
In this debut novel, we follow Ji-won who lives with her mother and sister after their father recently left his mother. She goes to college and seems to be your average young adult, until certain things seem to become more clear about her past and present situation. Their mother has a new boyfriend, George, and he’s a middle-aged, yucky, creepy and racist white man. This, in addition to her father leaving and some other circumstances, causes Ji-won to spiral.
This is a slow descent into insanity and reminded me of “The Shining”.
It’s like watching someone enter into a psychosis and you wonder with the MC if the situations you are reading are actually taking place or just a dream or a hallucination.
Basically, she becomes obsessed with eyeballs and the consumption of them.
Holy shit. This was a WILD ride. It was a bit of a slow start for me, setting the scene but not a whole lot happens right away which’s made it hard for me to pick back up. But boy, once it did pick up, I didn’t want to put it down. I finished the last half in one night because I needed to know more. It made me cringe so hard I had to avert my eyes for a second. The descriptive writing is commendable but also so gross. I wondered “why would someone think about writing this”. But I guess that’s the job of being a writer.
For a debut novel: GREAT BOOK.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 stars.
In this debut novel, we follow Ji-won who lives with her mother and sister after their father recently left his mother. She goes to college and seems to be your average young adult, until certain things seem to become more clear about her past and present situation. Their mother has a new boyfriend, George, and he’s a middle-aged, yucky, creepy and racist white man. This, in addition to her father leaving and some other circumstances, causes Ji-won to spiral.
This is a slow descent into insanity and reminded me of “The Shining”.
It’s like watching someone enter into a psychosis and you wonder with the MC if the situations you are reading are actually taking place or just a dream or a hallucination.
Basically, she becomes obsessed with eyeballs and the consumption of them.
Holy shit. This was a WILD ride. It was a bit of a slow start for me, setting the scene but not a whole lot happens right away which’s made it hard for me to pick back up. But boy, once it did pick up, I didn’t want to put it down. I finished the last half in one night because I needed to know more. It made me cringe so hard I had to avert my eyes for a second. The descriptive writing is commendable but also so gross. I wondered “why would someone think about writing this”. But I guess that’s the job of being a writer.
For a debut novel: GREAT BOOK.