Reviews tagging 'Schizophrenia/Psychosis '

Bunny by Mona Awad

118 reviews

torilara's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Blood, Alcohol, Animal death, Cursing, Death, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Violence, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Minor: Car accident, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Death of parent

haromea's review against another edition

dark 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? It's complicated

2.75

Clever dark themed descriptions and twists on ‘classically admired’ traits or appearances, use of language etc. However I personally couldn’t find myself particularly enjoying it (although could be part of the point) and

Spoiler

I wanted a bit more of a resolution (although the ending kinda fits with the general feel of the book)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Animal death, Self harm, Animal cruelty, and Violence

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis

lianne_rooney's review

challenging dark funny 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? It's complicated

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Animal death, Violence, Grief, Mental illness, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis

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

w0rmonastring's review against another edition

dark funny tense fast-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

4.0

this book is filled to the brim with the sugary-sweet sensations and bright pastels of an acid trip that’s about to go horribly wrong (which isn’t far from the events of this story). 

extremely imaginative and told from such a unique and captivating prose. awad’s writing is atmospheric and deliberate with every word. the book is purposefully pretentious, making a number of critiques on social power dynamics and the pompous elitism of academia. very captivating story sprinkled with the brilliance of a sort of post-feminist creative writer. 

<i>We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful.</i>

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Classism, Drug use, and Drug abuse

bammys's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-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

4.0

A different concept than most of my reads that kept me intrigued because I never really knew where the story was heading. I missed some things in the beginning that made SO much sense once I got to the end, but it was fun to try to unravel what was truly happening. While there’s a general plot point, the main story follows the MC and her journey through her work and how it is influenced by the company she keeps and the experiences shared with them. What kept me most interested is how the narrators voice altered in language and style as the company and experiences changed as well. 

Spoiler

If the main story is about the author describing her experience with schizophrenia, then it leaves a bad taste in my mouth because while it doesn’t overtly have discriminatory language, it does portray people with schizophrenia as having violent tendencies and being unpredictable which contributes harmfully to the stigma surrounding mental illnesses

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Gore

Minor: Mental illness, Ableism, and Suicidal thoughts

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

livcab's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Physical abuse, Body horror, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Murder, and Animal death

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

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