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haleybre'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
4.0
Graphic: Self harm, Toxic relationship, Cursing, Drug use, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Blood, Animal death, Murder, and Death
jcinf's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Second note: heed trigger warnings.
God, I don’t know. I don’t know what to say about this book. I loved it and hated it. I’m confused. I don’t know what was real and wasn’t real, and that’s what I hated about it. But that’s also what I loved about it.
I desperately need to discuss this book with someone.
[EDIT: after reading people’s discussions of this book on Reddit, I think I’m obsessed with it. I now love that it’s open to so much interpretation 😂
Come back and read this after you finish, if you’re interested in reading someone’s interpretation!!
I do agree with the theory that
Oh ALSO:
For more interpretations, check out this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/gxaxjw/bunny_by_mona_awad_is_misunderstood_by_many/
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I will say, it’s best you go into this book knowing nothing about it.
I wish there were discussion questions in the back. I feel like that would be fun to unpack.
Major question I have are below. I’ll put spoilers around it because it kind of gives things away. But also I don’t give details. So read as you wish:
If you ended this book thinking “what even happened” and are looking for a literal rundown of the plot, here it is. I created a summary in just emojis. I felt like it was the perfect way to recap the chaos of this book. lol.
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👩🏻 🧲👩🏼👩🏼👩🏼👩🏼 ➡️🐰
🏛️🐰🍹💊🕳️🫶🏽👗🧁🎀🔒
🧔🏽♂️➡️🐰🪓💥🩸🫨
🐰💬👩🏽 ➡️ 👩🏻💬👩🏽💃🏻💃🏽
📝🥳💭🧔🏼♂️😨❓❓
🚬👩🏽➡️🦢🪓💥🩸😭😡🪓
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Graphic: Animal cruelty, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Drug use, Gore, Murder, Cursing, Animal death, Death, Blood, Body horror, and Toxic friendship
Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis and Mental illness
samflowerv6's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
I WORSHIP YOU MONA AWAD!! Any freaks who like this book (myself included) are my favorite.
“Can I take your coat?” Cupcake offers. I turn to her. She’s looking at me so hopefully. So willing to take a coat I’m not wearing, I almost want to give her my skin.”
“What do you think, Samantha?” Fosco asks me. That it’s a piece of pretentious shit. That it says nothing, gives nothing. That I don’t understand it, that probably no one does and no one ever will. That not being understood is a privilege I can’t afford. That I can’t believe this woman got paid to come here. That I think she should apologize to trees. Spend a whole day on her knees in the forest, looking up at the trembling aspens and oaks and whatever other trees paper is made of with tears in her languid eyes and say, I’m fucking sorry. I’m sorry that I think I’m so goddamned interesting when it is clear that I am not interesting. Here’s what I am: I’m a boring tree murderess. But I look at Vignette, at Creepy Doll, at Cupcake, the Duchess. All of them staring at me now with shy smiles. “I think I’d like to see more of the soup too,” I hear myself say.”
“I look at all of my dreams and nightmares distilled into one man-shaped shape. All the love and hate I have in my heart plus one fucking bunny.”
“Behold the lavish tent under which the overeducated mingle, well versed in every art but the one of conversation.”
“They laugh. What’s so fucking funny? I want to say. But I don’t. I laugh with them. Ha. Haha. Hahaha.”
How empty and emptied I felt walking away with all my words still on his floor. Wanting so badly to pick them back up. Take it all back. Wipe away the night, my dumb tears, my endless tumbling out of words. I never meant to give this to you.
“Their cheeks are plump and pink and shining like they’ve been eating too much sugar, but actually it’s Gossip Glow, the flushed look that comes from throwing another woman under the bus.”
“We've read Jane Eyre too, you cunt, and we've read The Waves, and when we read it, you know, we wept for minutes."
“Whenever I read one of Victoria’s vignettes, I always feel so dumb because I can hardly understand them at all. And then I blame myself. I think, Kira, this must be just too brilliant for you to grasp. Surely you must have missed something. Even though there’s always been this small voice inside of me that says, Um, what the fuck is this, please? This makes no sense. This is coy and this is willfully obscure and no one but Victoria will ever get this. I would in fact need to live inside Victoria’s spoiled, fragmented, lazy, pretentious little mind to get it. And who apart from us, apart from me, is going to be willing to do that? To work all night with a Victoria Decoder? Who would even care to? And then I feel like screaming JUST SAY IT. TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED. TELL ME WHAT THE FUCK THIS MEANS AND WHAT YOU DID WITH HIM EXACTLY.”
“Read. Be a guest in other worlds.”
Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Gore, Drug abuse, Drug use, Death, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Grief, Physical abuse, Classism, Violence, Body shaming, and Cursing
potterpav'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
2.75
Graphic: Toxic friendship, Animal cruelty, and Animal death
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, Murder, and Rape
alebrijedecereza's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Toxic friendship, Animal death, Death, Vomit, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Rape, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting
piepatch's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
Graphic: Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, and Body horror
Moderate: Drug use, Sexual content, Violence, Gaslighting, Grief, Gore, Alcohol, Death, Kidnapping, Murder, Bullying, Cursing, Blood, and Self harm
Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Classism, Death of parent, Slavery, Infidelity, and Stalking
ember_is_gay's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, and Gun violence
Minor: Rape
carla20's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Body horror, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Death, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Blood, Mental illness, Murder, Drug use, and Toxic friendship
Minor: Death of parent
cturn's review against another edition
- 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
4.25
Graphic: Gore, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Blood, and Violence
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Death, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Death of parent
juliecukier's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Blood, Drug use, and Animal death