Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Bunny by Mona Awad

439 reviews

ashlynregan's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

The trippiest book I have ever read. Think of weird, then get weirder, and still you have yet to describe this book. It’s like a hive mind but with animal sacrifice.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cursing, Death, Violence, Blood, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcohol

jacq_s's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Gore, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Alcohol

autumnsystump's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Drug abuse and Alcohol

feliz_in_a_bucket's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-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? It's complicated

4.5

Loved it. A cuteishly gory fever dream. Started out reminding me of Mean Girls with a creepy twist. Later on became less cohisive in its direction, more dream-like but still connecting enough pieces to leave room for imagination. Very fun to read, though pretty weird.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug use, Gore, Self harm, Sexual content, Blood, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death

herelieshenry's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

2.25

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, and Sexual harassment

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

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

blanketenjoyer's review against another edition

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

2.0

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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, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug use

taviarz's review against another edition

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

3.5

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, and Alcohol

Moderate: Self harm and Grief

leahisreading's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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? Yes

I want to see this made into a movie so so so badly I think that would be terrifying and sick as hell 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Violence, Murder, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Emotional abuse, Rape, and Self harm

rosesofthespring's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

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, and Classism

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

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

katfxx's review against another edition

fast-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, and Murder