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Bunny by Mona Awad

157 reviews

daleee's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Self harm, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Classism

Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, and Alcohol

loraberry's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Drug abuse, and Violence

amylangdown_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This book was very surreal! It took me a few chapters to get into it but once I was in, I was hooked. The relationships in the book are so complex, as are the characters - a lot of them were ‘love-to-hate’ characters which I enjoy. I’m not sure exactly what happened near the end, but as the whole book was very surreal I didn’t mind the ambiguity - it made sense.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Infidelity, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Sexual content, Kidnapping, and Death of parent

that_person_logan's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

I need to think on this book for a bit I think. 

I know these things:
- I did fully enjoy reading this. I felt like it is a very interesting commentary on academia and girlhood and girl friendships and anyone socialized as female will definitely see themselves in one of the women in this book. 
- I am too autistic for some of these unreliable narrators and the ambiguity this book. I have so many unanswered questions and also I don’t know what happened lol but I’m trying to figure it out. 
- I love freaky books but this is by far the weirdest book I have read. Not in a bad way at all, just a comment. 
- I wanted more about the decapitations going on in this fucked up weird town that Samantha and the Bunnies lived in.  I feel like there was a bunch of symbolism with that and I feel like it wasn’t fully wrapped up in a way that was pleasing to me personally. 

I am torn on whether to do an in depth literature review on this book or whether to live and let live with this book. I think Ava would say “Smackie don’t fucking type that all out.” So I’ll end the review here: Good and weird book- I recommend it. 4 stars. 

Please for the love of g-d read content warning before reading this. You should know what you are getting into. Take care of yourself!!!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Self harm, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Classism

Minor: Alcoholism and Death of parent

Rip Ava you were the best swan-girl-friend a lonely bitch could ask for 🖤

mainereading's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This book is what I assume an acid trip would feel like. Think Heathers, Mean Girls, and Frankenstein, but on acid.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

gravey_'s review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Drug abuse, Blood, Stalking, Murder, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Gore

Minor: Self harm and Death of parent

hannah2896's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

What the fuck did I just read, Bunny?

Weird and kind of wonderful. I had no idea what I was reading about but also couldn't put it down. A very strange concept and not like anything I've read before, and only picked up as it was my book clubs December read. Some serious psychedelic vibes.. 🐰

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Drug abuse, Blood, Grief, Toxic friendship, and Dysphoria

ewyhoff's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

Unreliable narrator

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Classism

sheriffrockyraccoon's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Christian Slater is an active threat among lesbians.

I had been recommended this book many times for my interests in horror, especially surrounding the Heathers-esque clique that is the Bunnies. I did enjoy it a lot!

While it took me a bit to feel any sort of sympathy for Samantha, she eventually grew on me. Thankfully, the story does set up pretty much everyone to be insufferable so it felt easier to detach from liking her and more just enjoying where the story was headed. Of course, I’m also terrible at predicting plot twists (and now that I’ve finished this story, it was so obvious) but I was very moved by the novel’s denouement.

Ultimately, I would recommend this story to angry women. It is very reminiscent of the 2012 writer era as well, which I found incredibly entertaining.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

mir_frog73's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

I fully knew what was happening till the end but honestly I don’t care. I don’t think it’s really meant to have an ending that can be read one way.

I truly wish I had a definitive answer to whether Ava was real

what an acid trip tho. I think this book is a flat 4.60 but that’s not an option 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Self harm, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail