Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Bunny by Mona Awad

506 reviews

hannahbailey's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark funny mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Unsure how to review this tbh, it's pretty mind-boggling. Enjoyed the setting and the MC, did get a bit unnerved towards the end which I suppose is the intent! I think this genre is just not for me, it's hard for me to fully appreciate or grasp lol. I can see why people love it but I finished it thinking wow! That was unpleasant. Not great for a gal who reads for escapism. Very very cleverly written though!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Self harm, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol

verysillygoose's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gore

Moderate: Addiction, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail

trishalah_'s review against another edition

4.25

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I devoured this. Bunny is unhinged and fucked up but I reveled in its fucked up ness. It's a standout with how absurd, funny yet so horrifying at times it got a little overwhelming. It's so so weird. Experimental. It's horror is laced with black comedy with rightful criticism about the pretensiousness of academia. Really layered with genius at the bottom (I found myself taking notes of all my observations). An incredibly well done blend of dark fairytale horror in dark academia in the modern context with satire. Unlike anything I've read before. Read this just for the reading experience. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Gore

joensign's review against another edition

2.5

dark mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death

Minor: Death of parent

corpseparty's review against another edition

2.75

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nah cause WHAT IS THIS BOOK ? Tried to have a wild story and it’s still mid imo :(

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Self harm

lynxpardinus's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional mysterious tense

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Violence, Blood, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship

Moderate: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Infidelity, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Torture, Death of parent, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Car accident

Further warning for an implied teacher/student relationship, and at least one use of the R slur.

a_peck's review against another edition

dark funny tense

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Genuinely not a clue what to rank this. Not a clue what I just read either. I have so many questions and I’m not entirely sure whether I got the answers or not. My head sort of hurts. I don’t know if this counts as magical realism or if everyone was just super high? I’m also not sure whether it was actually skilful, or just gripping because of how insanely bonkers it was. I feel it was a bit too in your face with the satire, but I didn’t mind too much because everything else almost balanced it out. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Violence

Moderate: Body horror, Drug use, Gore, Blood

Minor: Ableism, Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis

sanikaa_'s review against another edition

4.5

dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Self harm, Kidnapping, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Alcohol, Dysphoria

Minor: Death, Death of parent

ambenicole418's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Well…..that was definitely……a book lol.

I can’t really explain this book or my feelings on it, but I feel like there is definitely some commentary in here on loneliness and isolation, and the lengths our brain will go to help us cope with these feelings, especially when we look at Samantha and Ava’s friendship. Honestly, I think I might have enjoyed forming my own/reading other people’s interpretations of this book more than I enjoyed reading the book itself. 

I do wish we got to spend some more time inside the bunny cult though. Their hive mind dynamic, weird hybrid rituals, and how desensitized they were to all of it were the most interesting parts of the book, and it feels like we spent a criminally short amount of time with them in that space.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Grief, Death of parent, Toxic friendship

Minor: Addiction, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment

katvlnt's review against another edition

3.75

tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Toxic friendship

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug use, Gore, Death of parent, Murder