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Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Murder, Toxic friendship, Abandonment
Moderate: Death of parent
Graphic: Bullying, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Blood, Toxic friendship
Minor: Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Self harm, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Classism
Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Alcohol
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Drug abuse, Violence
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Infidelity, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Death of parent
I know these things:
- I did fully enjoy reading this. I felt like it is a very interesting commentary on academia and girlhood and girl friendships and anyone socialized as female will definitely see themselves in one of the women in this book.
- I am too autistic for some of these unreliable narrators and the ambiguity this book. I have so many unanswered questions and also I don’t know what happened lol but I’m trying to figure it out.
- I love freaky books but this is by far the weirdest book I have read. Not in a bad way at all, just a comment.
- I wanted more about the decapitations going on in this fucked up weird town that Samantha and the Bunnies lived in. I feel like there was a bunch of symbolism with that and I feel like it wasn’t fully wrapped up in a way that was pleasing to me personally.
I am torn on whether to do an in depth literature review on this book or whether to live and let live with this book. I think Ava would say “Smackie don’t fucking type that all out.” So I’ll end the review here: Good and weird book- I recommend it. 4 stars.
Please for the love of g-d read content warning before reading this. You should know what you are getting into. Take care of yourself!!!!!
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Self harm, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Classism
Minor: Alcoholism, Death of parent
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Drug abuse, Blood, Stalking, Murder, Toxic friendship
Moderate: Gore
Minor: Self harm, Death of parent
Weird and kind of wonderful. I had no idea what I was reading about but also couldn't put it down. A very strange concept and not like anything I've read before, and only picked up as it was my book clubs December read. Some serious psychedelic vibes.. 🐰
Moderate: Animal death, Death, Drug abuse, Blood, Grief, Toxic friendship, Dysphoria
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Classism
I had been recommended this book many times for my interests in horror, especially surrounding the Heathers-esque clique that is the Bunnies. I did enjoy it a lot!
While it took me a bit to feel any sort of sympathy for Samantha, she eventually grew on me. Thankfully, the story does set up pretty much everyone to be insufferable so it felt easier to detach from liking her and more just enjoying where the story was headed. Of course, I’m also terrible at predicting plot twists (and now that I’ve finished this story, it was so obvious) but I was very moved by the novel’s denouement.
Ultimately, I would recommend this story to angry women. It is very reminiscent of the 2012 writer era as well, which I found incredibly entertaining.
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism