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Bunny by Mona Awad

3 reviews

henrygravesprince'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: Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, Murder, Animal death, Bullying, Sexual assault, and Violence

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

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

lauraeerika's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

hi bunny darling you scared the living shit out of me

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Xenophobia, Violence, Alcoholism, and Racial slurs

Minor: Sexual content

madarauchiha's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

4.5

Saved. ❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜  my about / byf / CW info carrd: uchiha-madara 💜 💙 💚 💛 🧡 ❤️

An odd, weird, phantasmagorical, interesting, horrifying novel. note if you're bored skip to ch 13 it starts to pick up there. 

Content warnings.
minor medical content, ableism, ableist r slur, animal death, anti Rromani g slur, gore, cannibalism, racial fetishization, racism, self harm, drug use smoking tobacco, whorephobic language, antisemitism lizard people topic. its brief and not obviously aimed towards Jewish people but that hardly matters, and it does come up often enough. 

medium alcohol use, animal death, animal hunting, anti Rromani g slur, anti Rromani sentiment, classism, drug abuse, parental death, rape, sexual content, sexual harassment, suicide ideation, whorephobic language

major alcohol use, animal death, confinement?, death, drug use, gore, kidnapping, self harm, sexual content, toxic friendships, unreality

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Alcohol, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Kidnapping, Drug use, Self harm, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Animal death, Alcohol, Death of parent, Sexual content, Drug abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Xenophobia, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Drug use, Ableism, Animal death, Racism, Cannibalism, Medical content, Racial slurs, Self harm, Xenophobia, and Antisemitism