Who the heck is that? What was the slap all about. Weird!
The writer made a grotesque composition error in writing,
“...has grabbed us by our eyeballs and won’t let go...”
This is called “compositions from the slush pile” by editors of truly bad writing submitted for publication. Some other examples of slush pile errors:
“His organ began to beat so hard he thought it would pop out of his chest.”
“Thoughts flew like spaghetti in my brain.”
“I knew I had a bestseller in me—all I had to do was plumb my depths and out it would come, like some literary bowel movement.”
“Carlotta’s eyes dropped to the handkerchief in her hands.”