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Ji-won's father leaves her family and her world goes up in flames. Consumed by grief, her mum starts dating again and introduces a white man into their korean household. Rich, blue-eyed and fetizishing asian women, she develops a burning hatred for this parasite in their house's walls - until she cannot stand in anymore. Gripping, important and deeply satisfying, I finished this extraordinary debut novel in two sittings.

Absolute Cinema. This book shook and excited me at the same time. Monika Kim writes a book about sexism, racism, fetishism, etc. of american-asian women that we can see these topics in an almost too obvious disgustingly way (just realistic to be honest), which made me feel increasingly dumbfounded about the characters behaviours. What makes the book special is that we can follow a serial killer in the making, getting to look behind her thinking process and seeing her slowly fall into madness while she acts after her craving for justice and well... eyes.

This page-turner is full of body horror and the protagonist‘s obsession with blue eyes! I adored the emotional depth that Monika Kim gave the characters, especially Ji-won! I could not put this down!!

About discrimination, female rage and the sexualization of asian women in western countries. An important portrait on the way east asian women are often looked at. Ji-wons parents are seperated. Soon her mom finds a new partner...an american... blue eyed. Facinated by his eyes, enraged by his treatment of her family, Ji-won begins having nightmares and can't seperate dream from reality anymore.

I’m not sure what I was expecting when going into this book, maybe a twisted horror story full of screams and jump scares but that’s not what this was. Instead, I got a psychological, feminist revenge story and about that I’m quite happy. This book is exciting from the beginning; the fast pace and mental decline of the main character makes you want to keep reading at all costs. Her anger is addicting, and you find yourself rooting for her, even if she is the “villain”. I did deduct one star because I wish we would have gotten a bit more detail on her mental state, watch her lose it a bit slower and more detailed but otherwise this was peak female rage. Do be warned though, if you are squeamish this book might not be for you. Especially when it comes to descriptions of eyes (surprise, surprise!). However, if you can handle some gore and disgust and are angry at a man (or a lot of them, let’s be honest), then this book will feel like therapy.