The Eyes Are the Best Part

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING 'GOOD FOR HER' NOVEL
Features on New York Times' Best Horror Fiction of 2024 list
A TIME Top 100 Book of the Year
Soon to be a major motion picture
Shortlisted for the Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Debut Novel and Horror Book
In GOOGLE PLAY's top reads of 2024
A Barnes & Noble Best Horror of 2024
A Kobo Best Horror Audiobook of 2024
Spotify Editors' Pick 2024 and Spotify Breakout Authors 2024
'THE EYES ARE THE BEST PART is an outstanding debut, a feminist horror novel that tackles big social issues and also delivers the gory origin story of a female serial killer.' - NEW YORK TIMES
'I WAS ENTICED FROM THE FIRST LINE' - Oyinkan Braithwaite
'DARKLY FUNNY' - Fern Brady
'A DARK MODERN FAIRYTALE OF FEMALE VENGEANCE' - Harriet Walker
'VERY CLEVER, VERY WEIRD, BRILLIANT SOCIAL COMMENTARY' - Abigail Bergstrom
There's an ugly voice inside my head. It's not real, it hisses. None of this is. Just kill him. Taste his eyes.
I want to. More than anything. So what if it's real?
My Sister, the Serial Killer meets Boy Parts, this literary feminist howl-of-a-debut is going to crawl right under your skin...
Ji-won's life is in disarray. Her father's affair has ripped her family to shreds, leaving her to piece their jumbled lives back together.
To top it off, her mother's obnoxious new white boyfriend enters the scene bragging about his flawed knowledge of Korean Culture, causing Ji-won's hold over her emotions to become strained. As he gawks at her and her sister around their claustrophobic apartment, Ji-won becomes more and more obsessed with his brilliant blue eyeballs.
As her fixation and rage grow, Ji-won decides that she must do the one thing that will save her family... and also curb her cravings.
'Violent, gruesome and wildly original' - NEW YORK TIMES
'Utterly fantastic, female revenge horror at its finest. Perfect for readers of Tender is the Flesh' WATERSTONES
'Smartly written, [this is] a fun and nasty debut with real edge to it. A promising calling card from a writer to watch' THE BIG ISSUE
'One of the most assured feminist horror novels I have ever read' Bookseller
'Dark, uncomfortable and addictive... I was hooked from page one. What an exciting debut' Bookseller
'If you love unhinged women and seeing them get their revenge, then you NEED to read this... A very well-written social commentary on misogyny, racism and cultural fetishisation' Bookseller
'Deliciously weird' - Reader review
'Full of teeth clenching tension and satisfying vengeance. This debut is not one to miss!' - Reader review
'Gross, graphic and hilarious' - Reader review

MONIKA KIM is a second-generation Korean American living in Los Angeles' Koreatown. She learned about eating fish eyes and other Korean superstitions from her mother, who immigrated to Los Angeles from Seoul in 1985.
The Eyes Are the Best Part is her debut novel and was selected as a Book of the Year by the New York Times, TIME, Spotify and others.