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Bunny by Mona Awad

32 reviews

bxnnny's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-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

1.0

convinced that everyone writing 4+ star reviews of this book are doing a weird, satirical homage to the bunnies themselves. this book was lame and tried too hard and had me thinking i was in a reading slump because i was having the hardest time getting into this - i had to take a break after every chapter. the writing was grating in a way i can't describe and the random grammatical errors were distracting. i'm honestly just overwhelmingly disappointed. i looked forward to reading it, i felt like i only ever saw glowing reviews of it, and now i'm certain it was just another overhyped book i got duped by booktok to read.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Animal death, Toxic friendship, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Alcoholism

jneverland's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Rape, Toxic friendship, Cursing, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Body shaming, Animal death, Blood, Drug abuse, Drug use, Murder, and Physical abuse

alexandrabelze's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious 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

4.25

wow. just wow. this is the first mona awad novel i’ve read and i was not disappointed. it’s gory and absurd and downright disturbing. i loved it. i never had any clue what was going to happen next, and i was always pleasantly surprised at what she had in store. there was so much symbolism and so many metaphors and i’m sure i didn’t even catch them all. the characters were so full-fledged and yet so empty? since we were seeing everyone and everything through samantha’s eyes, there was this veil of blissful ignorance draped over everything. i would have loved to get a peek into what the bunnies saw. 

Spoiler

my favorite part of the whole book has to be max’s whole “performance piece” with the bunnies in the cave. watching their perfect, carefully curated, fake identities collapse was so satisfying and mildly humorous.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Classism, Stalking, Vomit, Addiction, Sexual content, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape, Alcoholism, and Death of parent

jane_moriarty's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

This seriously felt like a fever dream and I needed to pull myself back to reality after reading. Kafkaesk teenage fairytale set in an absurde lovecraftian New England university town.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Body horror

Moderate: Toxic friendship and Animal cruelty

Minor: Alcoholism, Murder, and Death of parent

connie29's review against another edition

dark tense fast-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Death, Blood, Cursing, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

tinareads's review against another edition

dark mysterious

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Blood, Animal death, and Alcoholism

Minor: Rape

simplyammee's review against another edition

1.5

This book fucking sucked.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Drug use, Gaslighting, Animal cruelty, Kidnapping, and Mental illness

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, and Death of parent

Minor: Rape and Ableism

They mention rape or the possibility of being raped but rape isn't actually within the book.

aeriecircus's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Body horror, and Classism

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Drug abuse

Minor: Abandonment

laurajc's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

4.0

i kind of loved how insane this was. i found myself jumping from theory to theory to try to make sense of something, but then i would immediately be hit with another layer to the story. i already knew to expect chaos going into this book, but i was pleasantly surprised with the overarching metaphors and meta-ness of the journey. i would highly recommend this if you’re open to an unconventional mean girls-meets-dark-academia story that leaves you wondering if it was all just delusion.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Drug use, Alcohol, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcoholism, Mental illness, Eating disorder, Drug abuse, and Sexual content

Minor: Gore

lapetitepaola's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Classism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Murder, Rape, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Mental illness