Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Bunny by Mona Awad

268 reviews

peppermint_pink's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.25

 Is every girl at least a little gay for their best friend? Middle is a little boring, gets really exciting at about 4/5 through the book. From the tango class onward, I had a feeling about Ava and I was about fifty percent right. If this is what it takes to get an MFA, count me out.

 Crazy-scary-sad is the perfect way to describe this book.  I'm a fan of the prose - the proems. Hate bouquet. Fuck you flower. Mouth sounds.

This book defied all my initial expectations but felt quite disjointed. I wish it flowed more smoothly. I nearly lost interest halfway through when Samantha's (the MC) pity party kind of felt too much. Still, I recommend it just because Mona Awad's writing style is fun to read!  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death of parent and Sexual content

ella_ruby's review against another edition

dark mysterious

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

3.0

Yes to messed up main characters. My rating also includes that I was too dumb to understand the book

because my friend who lent it to me had to spell out how unreliable the narrator was that nothing happened and suddenly it all made sense

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Moderate: Death of parent, Sexual content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, and Blood

kaylokay_'s review

challenging dark funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Toxic friendship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Alcohol, Body horror, Drug use, Murder, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Sexual content

ma3ve's review

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Drug use, Death of parent, Gore, and Violence

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis

shaynahufflepuff's review

dark tense 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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Sexual content, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Moderate: Death of parent and Blood

Minor: Car accident

staghunters's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

A really good first half that let me down a bit as it went on. It felt a bit like Awad wanted to put a lot of things in here but didn't find a way to give them all enough time to develop. The pacing is therefore a bit weird at times, as are some character decisions. I stuck around for the horror bits and have to say that those are used very effectively. Sometimes you maybe expect too much from a book, but despite that, it was still a decent read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Gore

Moderate: Death of parent

sarah_shelf's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.5

This is one of those bizarre and unhinged books that you can’t really explain or even articulate your feelings for, but it was An Experience and you will constantly be telling other people to read it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Moderate: Classism, Drug use, Toxic friendship, Blood, and Gaslighting

Minor: Death of parent and Kidnapping

riaxandra's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Difficult to review.. 
The writing itself Is very enjoyable and descriptive. And then u get the the point of the dmstory whe half of it doesn't make sense. Most of it reads as a fever dream. Which is supposedly the meaning of the book but also I have had so many toughts and speculation which most of them were true and not true at the same time. And I am still confused slightly.  Maybe have to reread the ending.  Seemed lightly si.ple and at the same time not.? 

Just writing my toughts after finishing the book. Fresh in my mind... what happened actually to certain characters?  Where they actually real? What about the ones I actually tought that were? Many questions that were left unawnsered maybe for better reason. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Death

Moderate: Drug use, Animal death, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Drug use and Animal death

The main character seemes ir is hHighworth half of the book. The is some animal abuse or and definetly death Involved. Cults and hive mind mentality. Most likely main character feeling deterioration and delusion.

wannabe_lee's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Bullying, Self harm, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Body horror, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Mental illness, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Death, and Drug use

Minor: Abandonment, Car accident, Alcohol, Addiction, Rape, and Alcoholism

klr0's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Mental illness, Cursing, Death of parent, Blood, Bullying, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Drug use, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Death, and Murder