Reviews tagging 'Panic attacks/disorders'

Bunny by Mona Awad

22 reviews

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

sakurasarah's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I found this book very tense, disturbing & at times, confusing. I understand where the author was trying to go with it, however I feel that it fell a bit short of that. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Death, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Cannibalism, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

lokes's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Bullying, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Medical trauma, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

dearlysia's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

5.0

i love you, bunny

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, and Abandonment

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Violence

Minor: Eating disorder and Death of parent

emilymcculloh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative mysterious reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Toxic relationship, and Abandonment

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Violence

Minor: Eating disorder

wickedgrumpy's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

2.0

It was a vibe.

To put it simply, it's not my cup of tea but I understand it being someone else's.  Well written, probably improves on re-reading.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Dysphoria

parton4proletariat's review against another edition

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Toxic friendship

Minor: Death of parent

samokanikan's review against another edition

challenging dark funny mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

I loved this book! I think if you get it, you get it, and if you don't, then you don't. And that's totally fine! I had some trouble understanding it in the beginning, as I don't usually read magical realism, but I really enjoyed it the more I read. It was super interesting and I loved that plot twist at the end!!!!!! 2022 is the year where I read books out of my usual comfort zone, the first one being "A Touch Jen" by Beth Morgan, and I'm having a great time. it.
Don't go into this book thinking it's gonna be a light read--quite the opposite! This book will make you think so you can understand the magic behind it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Eating disorder, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Murder, and Gaslighting

hannahandrea's review against another edition

dark 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

5.0

this was fun and confusing and freaky and I enjoyed it! I read it because of someone comparing it to Jennifer's Body mixed with The Secret History, which is definitely accurate and made for a wild read. dark academic gore soaked to the bone with loneliness!

also this is one of those books that are described as being about "obsessive female friendship" and that's true, but also there's something incredibly fruity about the whole thing

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, and Toxic friendship

spcandybars's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

2.25

I’ve got strongly negative and strongly positive feelings about this book that place it in a frustrating middle ground. 

It's aggressively sexual in like a weird biological way that is definitely intended to make you uncomfortable and succeeds at doing so. The weird aspects of horror aren’t all that weird at all but they’re surrounded by so many unlikeable characters, so much judgement, and so much melodrama, that it makes you uncomfortable anyway. I’m not usually a person that thinks it’s necessary to like characters or like the progression of events to enjoy a book but this was just so SLOW and unpleasant in its entirety that it feels almost unreadable in some places. I honestly continued just because I’d gotten so many recommendations. 

I do think it deserves points for the idea itself. It’s interesting and the last few chapters move much quicker so the elevation into the fantastic and confusing is more satisfying than literally any other place in the book. 

I honestly believe that if it was in someone else’s hands, they could have made something more successfully subversive, more effectively scary, and something that can be disturbing in visceral ways through its horror rather than disturbing your peace via sheer irritation at every person, place, thing, and line of dialogue. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Sexual violence

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Gaslighting