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Bunny by Mona Awad

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belreadsbooks's review against another edition

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4.0

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zavia_v's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

Respectfully, this writing style was not at all for me and I didn't like it. The book is a bit disturbing (not in a bad way) but it still couldn't get me interested enough to keep reading. I made it halfway, but I'm gonna have to DNF.
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haleybre's review against another edition

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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

4.0

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jcinf's review against another edition

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challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced
  • 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

NOTE: if you go into this book expecting it to make sense, you will hate it. If you go into this book expecting to be confused, you will be much more open to what it offers.

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
Samantha is schizophrenic.
Especially with the scene
on the bus with the schizophrenia sign.
I think my interpretation is that
the Bunnies are indeed real, but a combination of her imagination, schizophrenic hallucinations, and loneliness has created a deadly persona about them.
I also agree that it’s commentary on the pompousness of grad school. My sister went to grad school and there were so many pretentious *ssh*les who spewed intellectual nonsense just to feel smart.
So I think that combined with her mental state had her hallucinating this mean girl clique as a cult.


Oh ALSO:
The schizophrenia angle makes a lot of sense because  she’s thinking something and people respond to her — even though she never said it out loud.


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:
Was Samantha schizophrenic, or was she just on drugs? Or both? Did she imagine everything, or did she only imagine parts of it? Were certain characters even real, or were they hallucinations? Or both?? Or was the whole thing just magical realism and anything could happen in this world?
I love and hate having all those questions. 

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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elisabethkatee's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

this is the best book i’ve ever read in my entire life and yes it has indeed become my entire personality. this has changed the course of my life on earth i’m not even joking. i love you mona awad holy shit. this book was everything to me and more…
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lexigoyette's review against another edition

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dark tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • 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

4.0

WTF did I just read? A fever dream I enjoyed wholeheartedly.

‘Rouge’ in a different font.

The Heathers meets Frankenstein, but set in a pretentious academia setting.
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r0ry_'s review against another edition

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dark emotional medium-paced
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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potterpav's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional 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

2.75

when i had abt 20 pages left, i knew that would be the make or break on whether it gets 3 stars or not. unfortunately i hated the ending, considering i finished it abt 10 hours ago and only remember feeling incredibly annoyed but now i cant even remember how it ended. i know you’re not supposed to like any of the characters, but if you aren’t supposed to like the characters you at least have to like the plot, and i didn’t like the plot. i thought it was a bit pointless .. which might seem a bit harsh but it’s true, i didn’t rlly get what was meant to be going on and i couldn’t stand samantha’s constant flittering around internal monologue. i have enough of that in my own head that i don’t need to read it on a page. it felt way too long but that might’ve just been it’s repetitiveness. i get it’s satire against mean girls/cliques and what-not, but it just didn’t do it for me. the 2 stars are for the setting descriptions bc i thought those were beautiful and .75 for ava, because she was way too nice to samantha after everything. anyway this book was, like, so experimental. so artsy. so. you know?
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nicole_zx's review against another edition

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

4.5

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paigespages08's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
  • 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

honestly this is my mean girls maybe I'm not smart enough to fully understand it but holy shit. the parts I did understand were so unreal.
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