Molka

 

This is all feminine rage and I’m here for it.

Molka is the Korean word for a spy camera, the kind secretly and illegally installed to record women without their knowledge. That alone tells you what kind of book you’re walking into.

Dahye is still grieving her older sister and buckling under a mother who makes her feel like she’ll never measure up. Then she falls into a fast, dizzying romance with a wealthy, charming man, and for a minute it feels like things are finally turning her way. Until a hidden camera captures one of their private moments and it ends up all over the internet.

What she doesn’t know is that an IT guy in her building has been quietly spying on women for a long time, and he’s fixed his attention on her.

When Dahye finally grasps the full scope of what’s been done to her, she stops absorbing it and starts fighting back. Hard.

I felt for her on every single page. This is a dark, disturbing, modern horror story about terrible men and the women they violate, and it does not flinch. Monika Kim writes with a blade. She refuses to look away from the daily reality so many women live with.

On audio, Rosa Escoda is fantastic. She carries Dahye from the giddiness of new love to the gut-punch of public humiliation to full-blown rage, and never drops a beat.

Not an easy listen. But a necessary one. Out now. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 

If you enjoyed this review, you might be interested in Murder Bimbo by Rebecca Novack, another novel about an unhinged woamn looking for revenge.

About the Author

Monika Kim is an acclaimed, Sunday Times bestselling author of “violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original” (The New York Times Book Review) horror novels. Her debut, The Eyes Are the Best Part, was a TIME Magazine, New York Times, B&N, and Kobo Best of the Year, as well as a Goodreads Choice Awards finalist and a Bram Stoker Award nominee. A second-generation Korean American, she learned about eating fish eyes and other Korean superstitions from her mother, who immigrated to California from Seoul in 1985. She lives in Los Angeles’s Koreatown.

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