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fairygodfish's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
On my second reading of Bunny, I felt compelled to write a review. Because I feel as though this book is often misunderstood. Misconstrued as anti-feminist, women-hating-women, overly pretentious. This could not be further from the truth.
Bunny is an exploration of deep unbearable loneliness. It is a study on loving women. It is beautiful and terrifying and masterfully written.
And Ava. My god, Ava is heartbreaking. This is the part that isn’t a rant about perceptions of the book, but about what I loved about it so much. I loved the weird bunny boys and the gore and the exploding heads and the drugs but I also love how Ava is portrayed.
It’s seriously a thrilling, heartbreaking, wonderful read. I truly recommend it.
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Violence, Animal cruelty, and Animal death
Moderate: Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Violence
Minor: Grief and Car accident
sarahaurora628'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? Yes
1.0
Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Animal cruelty, Murder, Gore, Mental illness, and Torture
Moderate: Alcohol, Kidnapping, and Self harm
bookedandbusy's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Drug use, Self harm, Gore, Toxic friendship, Murder, Mental illness, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Emotional abuse, and Blood
Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death
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
abbycrotts's review against another edition
- 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
4.25
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, and Gore
Moderate: Abandonment, Blood, Death, Gaslighting, Grief, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Violence
Minor: Death of parent, Kidnapping, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Suicidal thoughts
the gay subtext is extreme this book is gayer than the explicitly gay book i read earlierkeen's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
It's rare for me to finish a book in three days. To read 100 pages each day. On average, it takes me about a week to finish a book about 400 pages long. If a story's good, I'll read 40 to 50 pages daily. So, suffice to say, this book kept me interested.
I never thought I'd be able to care so much for unlikable characters. Samantha and her friend Ava are obviously flawed people. Not the type I'd want to hang around in real life, and might even actively avoid. Yet throughout the book, I still enjoyed them. I even found myself relating to Samantha to a worrying degree. And, thankfully, her flaws are directly acknowledged. Complaints I had with characterizations were relieved by that.
Then there are the Bunnies. At times, I forgot this book was a horror story. I would get comfortable with the Bunnies and think "I wish I was with them" before remembering what this book is about. Before remembering that I really wouldn't want to have to change my identity to befriend a group of girls. A few times I commented that I felt "rancid vibes" emanating from this story.
And the ending of the book. All I can say is that it makes a reread worth it.
Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, and Sexual violence
Minor: Eating disorder, Racial slurs, Rape, and Stalking