Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Bunny by Mona Awad

95 reviews

coco05's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts

missmali's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Toxic relationship, Gore, Toxic friendship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug use, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Self harm and Suicidal thoughts

alexandrabelze's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

wow. just wow. this is the first mona awad novel i’ve read and i was not disappointed. it’s gory and absurd and downright disturbing. i loved it. i never had any clue what was going to happen next, and i was always pleasantly surprised at what she had in store. there was so much symbolism and so many metaphors and i’m sure i didn’t even catch them all. the characters were so full-fledged and yet so empty? since we were seeing everyone and everything through samantha’s eyes, there was this veil of blissful ignorance draped over everything. i would have loved to get a peek into what the bunnies saw. 

my favorite part of the whole book has to be max’s whole “performance piece” with the bunnies in the cave. watching their perfect, carefully curated, fake identities collapse was so satisfying and mildly humorous.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Blood, Drug abuse, Gore, Alcohol, Bullying, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Self harm, Torture, Cursing, and Violence

Moderate: Classism, Stalking, Vomit, Addiction, Sexual content, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape, Alcoholism, and Death of parent

narzibenoucdel's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective 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? No

4.0

Utterly thought provoking and wrapped in unique yet deliciously descriptive prose. Themes and intent of the book seemed to change on a dime somewhat to its detriment (maybe I just didn’t fully grasp it), but I’m not mad about, simply just sitting here wondering what it was possibly all about. Great as a potential “dark academia” staple, particularly as it contends with ideas of privilege, class, pretension, and the Academy as a navel-gazing voyeur of poverty and suffering, though there’s much more to the story than this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic friendship

helenamichelle's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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: Classism, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Mental illness, and Sexual content

sarahaile's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-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? It's complicated

3.75

This is book is super unpredictable which is what makes it good and bad. The plot was hard to follow and times and was difficult to understand. However the funny social commentary on academia as well as the horror plot meshes well. Could have been executed slightly better but either way i enjoyed it 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Classism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Animal death, Child death, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Kidnapping

laurajc's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

4.0

i kind of loved how insane this was. i found myself jumping from theory to theory to try to make sense of something, but then i would immediately be hit with another layer to the story. i already knew to expect chaos going into this book, but i was pleasantly surprised with the overarching metaphors and meta-ness of the journey. i would highly recommend this if you’re open to an unconventional mean girls-meets-dark-academia story that leaves you wondering if it was all just delusion.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Drug use, Alcohol, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcoholism, Mental illness, Eating disorder, Drug abuse, and Sexual content

Minor: Gore

maidinnah's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

Demented, feverish, and just plain strange, Bunny forcibly blends Mean Girls with Jennifer's Body into a bloody, satirical tale about cults, cliques, academia, repression, and internalized misogyny. You can either reject the novel because of its excessive animal symbolism and juvenile main character or tumble down the rabbit hole in a blurry, imaginative frenzy that leaves you dazed long after you read it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Cursing, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Murder, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Gore, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Gaslighting, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

Minor: Death, Self harm, Death of parent, Addiction, and Car accident

eliya's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense 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? Yes

3.25

I did have a lot of fun reading this book. I love horror, I liked the way the narrator would slip in and out of thoughts & conversations. 

It was a little milquetoast in its character representation & ending. Like yeah of course they’re all white and of course they’re all thin and of course the outcast is a little alternative. Really disappointed with the use of the R word & ableism & fatphobia throughout the book. 

The ending was also lazy. Ha-ha the villains are broken and that’s their comeuppance? Broken limbs? There could have been so many more twists and turns but it was really like the one graphic thing that happened and everything else was the come down. I didn’t need all that info on how she was just laying in bed and the different ways in which she was laying in bed lmao.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Ableism, Suicidal thoughts, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Murder

Moderate: Self harm, Bullying, Sexual content, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Torture, Drug use, Cursing, Gaslighting, Chronic illness, Toxic friendship, and Death

Minor: Fatphobia

alicelalicon's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Toxic friendship, Gore, Death, Murder, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Blood, Body horror, and Violence

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Emotional abuse

Minor: Death of parent