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dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
This book is a metaphor for getting an MFA, or maybe a PhD. Everyone in your program wants to kill you and/or be you. It's all one big competition. And the people in your program who have natural talent - who can create majestic stags instead of twisted, broken bunnies - are usually the craziest, and loneliest.
i finally understand why everyone tried to warn me about this book, why nobody wanted me to read it. word’s can’t even begin to describe half the shit my eyes spent time reading. this book did nothing but make my blood boil. the characters are so infuriating, annoying, childish and boring its insane. the story was going somewhere at first and then it wasn’t? like i was interested in the beginning but then everything just started getting on my nerves and oh god, have i mentioned that this book is the definition of weird??? like it was a good/ okay weird at the start but as you keep reading its just so disgusting??? i hate it i hate it i hate it. its exactly the type of book i would recommend to my worst enemy. the only reason im rating this a one star is because the end that stupid fucking cult got was kind of satisfactory, otherwise this book deserves to burn in hell.
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
mysterious
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:
Complicated
emotional
mysterious
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
Finished the book, couldn't tell you what it was about though. This was like a nightmare on pages
this is definitely a "you love it or you hate it" type of book, especially reading the reviews of this book i love how divisive it truly is hahaha. i genuinely liked it! if you were ever someone who had an imaginary friend or two, you might really enjoy and relate. this being my second mona awad book (recently read rouge, can't believe i got to it before bunny somehow) i definitely recognize her writing style, her turns of phrase, her fever-dream plot points, her evocative yet economic descriptions -- somehow using just the right amount of words to describe something, picking out pieces to encapsulate the whole. both rouge and bunny are full of her signature style but for some reason i enjoyed bunny more.
the heathers comparison is something truly serious because i literally just watched the movie for the first time a month ago (still need to watch the musical!!) and it's still fresh in my head, i was picturing max as christian slater/JD and then awad literally compares him in the text to christian slater heathers and i was like hell yeah. anyways, this book was mostly not what i expected -- samantha's shameful desire to join the heathers i mean bunnies was there almost from the jump, and the whole arc of being fully absorbed into the bunny clique happened much quicker and lasted much shorter than i was expecting. there's a bit of a drop maybe 50-60% in where i was like, what's even left to happen at this point? will this book keep me interested? but i will say i did really enjoy how samantha's relationship to the bunnies was constantly in flux throughout the book, is she in their good graces or not? in-crowd or outsider?
i found the themes and the methods of exploring them very interesting to read about. the intense desire to belong somewhere, to change yourself in order to fit in with the popular rich crowd, having such a fragile sense of self and even sense of reality... it all felt relatable, in a strange way. samantha is insecure and lonely to a point where she seems jealous of her best friend and also in love with her and also wants to be her. there was also a lot of talk of class, like how the bunnies are so rich yet sheltered from real life and it affects their creative process in a different way from samantha. but this story also took turns i wasn't expecting, thinking about the power of the imagination for good and bad, living in a world of your own making, grief and loss, acceptance. also random but my favorite bunny is victoria and i really loved reading anything about ava.
the heathers comparison is something truly serious because i literally just watched the movie for the first time a month ago (still need to watch the musical!!) and it's still fresh in my head, i was picturing max as christian slater/JD and then awad literally compares him in the text to christian slater heathers and i was like hell yeah. anyways, this book was mostly not what i expected -- samantha's shameful desire to join the heathers i mean bunnies was there almost from the jump, and the whole arc of being fully absorbed into the bunny clique happened much quicker and lasted much shorter than i was expecting. there's a bit of a drop maybe 50-60% in where i was like, what's even left to happen at this point? will this book keep me interested? but i will say i did really enjoy how samantha's relationship to the bunnies was constantly in flux throughout the book, is she in their good graces or not? in-crowd or outsider?
i found the themes and the methods of exploring them very interesting to read about. the intense desire to belong somewhere, to change yourself in order to fit in with the popular rich crowd, having such a fragile sense of self and even sense of reality... it all felt relatable, in a strange way. samantha is insecure and lonely to a point where she seems jealous of her best friend and also in love with her and also wants to be her. there was also a lot of talk of class, like how the bunnies are so rich yet sheltered from real life and it affects their creative process in a different way from samantha. but this story also took turns i wasn't expecting, thinking about the power of the imagination for good and bad, living in a world of your own making, grief and loss, acceptance. also random but my favorite bunny is victoria and i really loved reading anything about ava.
challenging
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes