Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Bunny by Mona Awad

87 reviews

jesscav's review against another edition

challenging sad tense medium-paced

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

0.25

The story was very hard to follow. I've seen others describe this book as a "black licorice" book, meaning you love it, or you hate it. I hated it. It was confusing, I couldn't tell what was going on, and it feels like weaponizing mental illness disguised as "imagination." There was no real climax of the story, and felt like it droned on for 100 pages more than necessary. I also dislike any animal abuse or torture so, it just did not resonate with me. It's like a puzzle that fits really poorly together.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Bullying, and Torture

Moderate: Alcoholism and Abandonment

lolaka's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Death, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Self harm, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Abandonment

miranda_rm's review against another edition

challenging dark 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Body horror

Minor: Grief and Abandonment

jasmineesparza's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

This book felt like I was riding multiple rollercoasters at once. The MC is an unreliable narrator as she undergoes almost a hypnotic, dream/nightmare-like version of reality. In my opinion, the ending was not satisfying and I was left with many questions. Definitely a book that I will keep thinking about for a while. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Blood, Murder, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Abandonment

niles_reads's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

The whole review!

The book spoke to me on so many levels… Until the end.

I’ll start with things I like:

At the end of chapter 7, I felt the way they were talking about her (poem). How they wanted “more” from her. 

As a girl who’s not accepted by people around me, I related to her suffering. Of wanting to be accepted by others, even by those who you don’t like. And Samantha’s relationship with Jonah reminded me of how often I put those who actually cared about me behind. It’ll keep me up at night being reminded of it.

The creations being creatures combined of the girls’ desires, love and hatred in chapter 11 and later on with Max confused me after getting to the end.

Which is something that made me lost for words, and not in a good way. 

Was any of it real? What is real? We know the Bunnies and Max existed, since the Bunnies almost died because of him, but why were the other creations… Almost always failures? 

I have so much to say, but I’m growing tired… I’ll give it a 3.75, just because the ending is… Definitely something.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Death, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Alcohol

chainsawheartbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

“Invested in her own outsiderness”

Where to even begin? This book was a beautiful, trippy discussion on reality and fiction, one that I did not expect to make me cry.

Part 3 was so much more than what I hoped it would be and it completely broke me.

I think this would have been so good for my younger self to have been able to read; the escapism in fiction and allowing yourself to stand out/not feeling forced to fit in are both topics that she really needed to hear.

If I say too much I fear I’ll give everything away and not stop talking, but to those wondering what it’s about, the best way to describe it is as a ‘drug-filled The Craft getting lost down the rabbit hole with Alice’.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gore, Self harm, Blood, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, Car accident, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Minor: Rape and Sexual content

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

spacecadetlav's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

WOW. What an exciting read. I HAVE to discuss with someone because the themes here are so relatable. I’ll be thinking about this for the next few months.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Drug abuse, Self harm, Blood, Stalking, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, and Classism

Moderate: Eating disorder, Torture, Kidnapping, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

thegayestghost's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• 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, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Blood, Grief, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Alcohol

sarahb919's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Truly wild and I’m still not entirely sure what happened. Definitely something. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Cursing and Sexual violence

Minor: Ableism, Racism, Rape, Antisemitism, and Car accident