carabunkle's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
Graphic: Animal death
Moderate: Gore, Ableism, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
museofbookmares's review against another edition
- 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
4.5
Minor: Ableism
lynxpardinus's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Addiction, Gaslighting, Murder, Animal death, Blood, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Toxic friendship, and Violence
Moderate: Body horror, Death of parent, Injury/injury detail, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Torture, Infidelity, Ableism, Alcohol, and Animal cruelty
Minor: Car accident
Further warning for an implied teacher/student relationship, and at least one use of the R slur.coldcrumble's review against another edition
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Violence
Moderate: Body horror, Drug use, Blood, and Gore
Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Ableism, and Self harm
angryoppossum's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
Graphic: Death of parent, Animal cruelty, and Animal death
Moderate: Ableism and Gaslighting
Minor: Car accident
henrygravesprince's review against another edition
- 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
2.5
- some of the surrealist passages are fantastic, and the author is very good at writing things in a surreal way, especially portraying normal things as such
- the dynamic between Ava and Samantha is very interesting in contrast to Samantha, the Bunnies, and men
- some of the stylistic grammar-breaking choices work, but a lot of them don’t; particularly the recurring all-caps and multi-exclamation point moments irked me
- the “gore” moments were honestly more silly than anything, particularly when half of the time it’s just “and then [xyz] literally exploded”
- there are a lot of really out of place, pointless moments of bigotry that would not alter the story or tone at all if they were removed, particularly the weird references to lizard people conspiracies, the R slur & derogatory comparisons to disabled people, and the usage of the G slur to describe a Romani woman; it comes across very much as the author just not giving a shit about it
I think there could be a good book chipped out of Bunny with more editing, but it just fell flat to me. People also misrepresent what this book actually is a lot when recommending it; I wish I had actually known what sort of book this was when going into it rather than what it gets portrayed as.
Graphic: Sexual assault, Violence, Animal death, Bullying, Misogyny, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Toxic friendship
Moderate: Stalking, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Gore, Injury/injury detail, and Kidnapping
Minor: Ableism, Alcohol, Gore, Death of parent, Drug use, Racial slurs, and Xenophobia
unknownhorrors's review against another edition
- 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
3.5
and idk if the bitter feelings re: her own pretentiousness among other pretentious art students was a feature of the character or the author, but either way it really grated on my nerves. no, more than that, the narration was SO self-deprecating that it made me outright uncomfortable. i can see how it aids the theme insofar as talking about the empty performative nature of the professional art scene, but it still wasn't my cup of tea.
the reason i'm taking a good half-star off this review, though, is that the author uses slurs in her prose to make it sound more edgy. saying someone looked like "a r*tarded baby", or referring to romani people by the g slur in fetishistic imagery, or using 'schizophrenic' as an insult... idk what she was going for with this but whatever it was, it fell flat for me.
that being said the plot was very interesting and original, the prose was engaging, the relationship between the main character and her best friend really tugged a chord with me, and i liked the ending. just, not enough to overlook the issues i had with this book.
Graphic: Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Alcohol, and Body horror
Moderate: Self harm
Minor: Racism, Ableism, Murder, and Racial slurs
Main character is non-consensually drugged at many points.madarauchiha's review against another edition
4.5
An odd, weird, phantasmagorical, interesting, horrifying novel. note if you're bored skip to ch 13 it starts to pick up there.
Content warnings.
minor medical content, ableism, ableist r slur, animal death, anti Rromani g slur, gore, cannibalism, racial fetishization, racism, self harm, drug use smoking tobacco, whorephobic language, antisemitism lizard people topic. its brief and not obviously aimed towards Jewish people but that hardly matters, and it does come up often enough.
medium alcohol use, animal death, animal hunting, anti Rromani g slur, anti Rromani sentiment, classism, drug abuse, parental death, rape, sexual content, sexual harassment, suicide ideation, whorephobic language
major alcohol use, animal death, confinement?, death, drug use, gore, kidnapping, self harm, sexual content, toxic friendships, unreality
Graphic: Sexual content, Alcohol, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Kidnapping, Drug use, Self harm, and Toxic friendship
Moderate: Animal death, Alcohol, Death of parent, Sexual content, Drug abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Xenophobia, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, and Sexual harassment
Minor: Drug use, Ableism, Animal death, Racism, Cannibalism, Medical content, Racial slurs, Self harm, Xenophobia, and Antisemitism
sarah984's review against another edition
- 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
2.0
There is this bizarre extended sequence near the end that involves a twisted hallucination of two characters critiquing the book and honestly I agreed with everything they said so clearly this book was not for me.
Moderate: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Death, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexual content, Stalking, Toxic friendship, and Vomit
Minor: Death of parent, Eating disorder, Injury/injury detail, and Suicidal thoughts
damage's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Animal death and Murder
Moderate: Ableism
Minor: Rape