A review by gwrhyr
Bunny, by Mona Awad
dark
slow-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? Yes
1.0
Every single character sucks in a 2D, plucked-from-Tumbr sort of way. The main character is so insufferable that the first hundred pages of the book are almost impossible to get through. Samantha spends half of the book feeling sorry for herself and seems to base her entire personality on internalised misogyny, embodying the trope of 'not like other girls'. Although all of the characters are 'quirky', none of them are memorable, so that 150 pages in you still have to go back to remember who Victoria was.
Bunny invokes a sense of performative ‘wokeness’ in that it seems to comment on the elitist settings of Ivy league colleges, yet the author makes use of slurs. On top of that, the novel, especially its writing style, is needlessly vulgar and misogynistic, and seems to be written largely for shock-value.
At least the third part was somewhat interesting, but even with suspension of disbelief some events were simply illogical and did not seem to line up with the narrative. Other parts were so confusingly written that it became hard to understand what was going on. The ending was a desperate attempt at a plottwist. All in all, Bunny reads like bad fanfiction.
At least the third part was somewhat interesting, but even with suspension of disbelief some events were simply illogical and did not seem to line up with the narrative. Other parts were so confusingly written that it became hard to understand what was going on. The ending was a desperate attempt at a plottwist. All in all, Bunny reads like bad fanfiction.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Misogyny, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence