Reviews tagging 'Death'

Bunny by Mona Awad

222 reviews

aclaws's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Classism, Animal death, Death, Bullying, and Cursing

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Drug use, Gore, Drug abuse, Self harm, Toxic friendship, and Vomit

Minor: Death of parent

krystof's review against another edition

challenging dark funny mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Death, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Drug use and Gore

Minor: Car accident, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Sexual assault, Murder, Self harm, Stalking, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

talia1353's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Animal death, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Self harm, Death of parent, and Suicide

bronzeageholly's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated

4.0

Creepy, lusty, bunny? 

Vivid characters? Yes!
Unreliable narrator? Yes!
Strange and unholy happenings in a friendship group? Yes! Yes!

The theme of loneliness in this book was heart aching and gripping, and shown in ways I’ve never come across before. It was a struggle to put it down to sleep!

I’m not sure I always understood (or even liked) our protagonist, but her unsettling and unrelenting university experience was now mine too, and I wasn’t going to let her go it alone.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Death, Animal death, Blood, Violence, Toxic friendship, Drug use, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Self harm, Murder, Classism, and Sexual content

lindasoderlundd's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Blood, Animal cruelty, Alcohol, Gore, Animal death, and Death

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Drug use, Death of parent, and Mental illness

Minor: Sexual content and Injury/Injury detail

hobbsl's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

Very dark interesting story. Very metaphorically written - which can be hard to follow at times. I absolutely did not expect the twist at the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Blood, Animal death, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual content, Self harm, Death, Animal cruelty, Toxic relationship, Body horror, Gore, and Emotional abuse

hannah_et1982's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

2.0

I'm really not sure what I was supposed to get from this book. Is it a commentary on the pain and desperation of loneliness? Is it a mockery of elitism? Is it insanity for the sake of insanity?

It was certainly easy to read, I'll give it that, but I kept waiting for something that never came. I kept waiting for there to be a reason why this book was slut-shaming so much. Kept waiting for it to be funny like all the blurbs claimed it to be. Kept waiting for the characters' actions and motivations to make sense. Kept waiting to find out what was so dark about Samantha's writing that it was worse than the girls writing about rape and murder. 

Honestly, I don't know what I think about this book. I know I didn't enjoy it. I didn't find the characters compelling and despite the over-the-top plot, I found the story as a whole pretty boring. I don't know what I was looking for, but this wasn't it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, and Gore

Moderate: Grief, Death, Death of parent, Violence, Alcohol, Drug use, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Rape and Vomit

auroraizora's review against another edition

challenging dark funny mysterious reflective tense fast-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

twilightfan420's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

4.0

Such disorienting world building! I felt swept up in the confusion, chaos and blurred reality throughout reading it, so much so that I was thinking about this book like it was my real life and my real friends. The satirization of academia paired with the stark class division was funny in an uncanny way. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Death, Gore, Animal death, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Body horror, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, and Murder

logdog42's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

2.0

I enjoyed the story, but the "twist" ruined it. The "it was actually all schizophrenia trope" is tired. It can be done in a tasteful way, that still leaves an intriguing story, as seen in The Circus by Jonas Karlsson, but this is not that. 
   There is a chance that Mona Awad intended it to be more open ended, but it that was the case then, in my opinion, she overwrite the details. 
 I enjoyed the reading experience.  I would suggest it if you are looking for the kind of book that makes you feel like you got a fever and nothing is real, you might really enjoy it! Just don't accept it as schizophrenic representation, please!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Animal death