Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Bunny by Mona Awad

506 reviews

poppyersej's review against another edition

5.0

dark funny mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

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: Animal death, Body horror

Moderate: Gaslighting

Minor: Death of parent

charnyreads's review against another edition

2.75

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-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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If twilight had a gen z horror little sister

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Gore, Blood

If twilight had a gen z horror little sister

herelieshenry's review against another edition

2.25

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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first, the positives:

• some of the surrealist passages are fantastic, and the author is very good at writing things in a surreal way, especially portraying normal things as such
• the dynamic between Ava and Samantha is very interesting in contrast to Samantha, the Bunnies, and men

now, the negatives:

• some of the stylistic grammar-breaking choices work, but a lot of them don’t; particularly the recurring all-caps and multi-exclamation point moments irked me
• the “gore” moments were honestly more silly than anything, particularly when half of the time it’s just “and then [xyz] literally exploded”
• there are a lot of really out of place, pointless moments of bigotry that would not alter the story or tone at all if they were removed, particularly the weird references to lizard people conspiracies, the R slur & derogatory comparisons to disabled people, and the usage of the G slur to describe a Romani woman; it comes across very much as the author just not giving a shit about it

I think there could be a good book chipped out of Bunny with more editing, but it just fell flat to me. People also misrepresent what this book actually is a lot when recommending it; I wish I had actually known what sort of book this was when going into it rather than what it gets portrayed as.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Violence, Murder, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Gore, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Ableism, Drug use, Gore, Racial slurs, Xenophobia, Death of parent, Alcohol

blanketenjoyer's review against another edition

2.0

dark lighthearted 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Self harm, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug use

bookshelfcat's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark mysterious 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: Complicated

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I'm not sure what I read, so I'm still uncertain whether I liked it or not. If you're looking for strange, I-don't-know-what's-happening-on-the-page stories, this will be for you.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

emabelle's review against another edition

3.5

dark mysterious 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: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Gore, Mental illness, Blood, Schizophrenia/Psychosis

taviarz's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Feels very white. But it’s good and layered just felt like it wasn’t exactly for me. Loved the discussion surrounding the feeling of loneliness though. Like if A24 was a book or if gaslighting was a book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Drug abuse, Drug use, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol

Moderate: Self harm, Grief

merlinduh's review against another edition

4.75

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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 cruelty, Body horror, Gore, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug use

rosesofthespring's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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If you're looking for a Lovecraft-inspired novel about the cosmic horror of toxic female friendships, I'm happy to tell you that your extremely specific search is at an end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Self harm, Sexual content, Vomit, Kidnapping, Car accident, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Eating disorder, Gun violence, Rape, Suicide, Excrement, Schizophrenia/Psychosis

slimepuppy's review against another edition

5.0

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Just finished the book. Staring at my kindle in quiet shock. So many twists and turns while still being a deeply emotional story. Samantha felt so real and relatable that even as she fucked up, evidently made the worst choices ever, I couldn’t help but root for her and cry with her when things went south. In these types of books it's so easy to write a main character that is snotty and uninteresting because of their outside-ness but Mona made Samantha's head a warm and welcoming place to be in - she is every single one of us who ever had the misfortune of having to work with rich people, and she doesn't blame herself for feeling justified resentment at the bullshit around her.

Also Ava and Samantha had more chemistry than half of the famous gay relationships that are lauded about as the hottest thing in every single social media app. I'm gonna go cry in a fetal position now, BYE.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Gore, Self harm, Blood, Gaslighting

Moderate: Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting

Minor: Addiction, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Car accident, Classism