Reviews tagging 'Panic attacks/disorders'

Bunny, by Mona Awad

12 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: 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

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

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

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

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: Abandonment, Animal death, Blood, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Violence

Minor: Death of parent and Eating disorder

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: Toxic relationship, Eating disorder, and Abandonment

Moderate: Violence and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Eating disorder

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

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

Minor: Death of parent

samokanikan's review

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

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

4.0

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, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Death, Body horror, 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: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Panic attacks/disorders, and Gaslighting