Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Bunny by Mona Awad

368 reviews

roharose's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Violence, Gore, and Self harm

tea_kettle's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective medium-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? Yes

3.0

what even 
hated the first 100 pages, liked half of the ending, hate the other girls 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use and Blood

Moderate: Animal death, Toxic friendship, Body horror, Mental illness, Animal cruelty, and Kidnapping

Minor: Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Violence

frogfig's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Utterly disturbing. I’ve not read much horror and this just gripped me in a way I haven’t had for ages. The first half was like watching a car crash; it was awful and getting worse by the second and I couldn’t look away. I love the critique of elitism and pretentiousness in the arts. I loved how Mona Awad explored the insanity of trying to fit in with people you hate - something most people pleasers can relate to. I thought the second half was interesting but for different reasons. I actually really enjoyed Max’s character but I with she’d done more with him. The Lion was a little pointless. Jonah deserved better! 
This book was An Experience. Not sure I’m eager to repeat it but I am so glad that I read it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Body horror

sgrunwald96's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-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

4.75

What a wild book. Creepy and odd, the prose feels as fluctuating as the content. Really cool. -.25 just because it feels like it could have been fanfiction about the author not fitting in during her time at an MFA at brown, but truly what a creative way to take it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Body horror

Moderate: Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Drug use, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Bullying

bek_p87's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

This just really wasn't for me. I didn't understand it, and it was just way way way too weird for me, with too many things left unexplained. It was well written.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Animal death, Body horror, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent

eefjeee's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense fast-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

5.0

Best book i read this year so far. It's the perfect kind of weird to me!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Classism, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Gaslighting, Blood, Animal death, Gore, Murder, Animal cruelty, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Stalking, Drug abuse, Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, and Body horror

em_gauts's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Animal death, Body horror, Drug abuse, Blood, Gaslighting, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, and Animal cruelty

alittlegreenbean's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

4.0

this was a violent, wild ride! i LOVE these kinds of books but they’re really not for everyone. you have to go into it knowing that it’ll be a little fucked up and not everything will make sense and you will not get the answers by the end lol. you never quite know what’s real, whether it was

a drug induced hallucination via cult? or some type of paranoia/schizophrenia? who’s to say but i was very entertained

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Animal death

Moderate: Body horror and Self harm

smokeandwires's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Violence, Alcohol, Death of parent, Sexual content, Drug use, and Blood

dreareads_'s review against another edition

dark emotional tense

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Short review for now:

I loved it. My friends and I talked about this book for HOURS sharing theories and interpretations. I will share later on!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Abandonment, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Gore, Violence, Emotional abuse, Death, Gaslighting, Grief, Toxic friendship, Addiction, and Body horror