manikahemmerixh 's review for:

The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim

3.0

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This book isn't bad. I read it in one sitting so I was clearly enraptured enough by the story. The thing is that after finishing it I feel kind of meh about it. I'm not squeamish, but the body horror definitely had me a bit queasy throughout, so I think that deserves recognition as a successful element. As the number of pages in front of me got smaller and smaller though, I knew that I wasn't going to be blown away by the story. Overall there was kind of just a combination of elements where I was like okay, I could really like this, but where is it going? And none of them went deep enough to make me feel like I really got something special out of this book. I think the writing is solid though and I still find the premise interesting enough to decide not to give this a lower rating.