Reviews tagging 'Ableism'

Bunny by Mona Awad

39 reviews

serotiny11's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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

3.0

Really disappointed after loving All's Well so much. Bunny had the same nightmarish disorientation quality that I loved and Mona Awad does so well, but I kept getting kicked out of the story by the casually dropped racial slurs and ableist langage (ex.,

ableist language - the r word, using schizophrenic as a derogatory joke; racial slurs - the g word several times

) that didn’t do anything for character or plot development. Especially in a novel that has racial elements and white privilege as a theme (the Bunnies embody entitled rich white lady-ness to a high degree), why choose to sling these around if not just to sound…edgy I guess? I have no idea why this was done and I’m afraid there’s no good reason at all. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs and Ableism

theghostly's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Rape, Ableism, and Sexual assault

simplyammee's review against another edition

1.5

This book fucking sucked.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Drug use, Gaslighting, Animal cruelty, Kidnapping, and Mental illness

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, and Death of parent

Minor: Rape and Ableism

They mention rape or the possibility of being raped but rape isn't actually within the book.

eliya's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense slow-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

3.25

I did have a lot of fun reading this book. I love horror, I liked the way the narrator would slip in and out of thoughts & conversations. 

It was a little milquetoast in its character representation & ending. Like yeah of course they’re all white and of course they’re all thin and of course the outcast is a little alternative. Really disappointed with the use of the R word & ableism & fatphobia throughout the book. 

The ending was also lazy. Ha-ha the villains are broken and that’s their comeuppance? Broken limbs? There could have been so many more twists and turns but it was really like the one graphic thing that happened and everything else was the come down. I didn’t need all that info on how she was just laying in bed and the different ways in which she was laying in bed lmao.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Ableism, Suicidal thoughts, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Murder

Moderate: Self harm, Bullying, Sexual content, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Torture, Drug use, Cursing, Gaslighting, Chronic illness, Toxic friendship, and Death

Minor: Fatphobia

carabunkle's review against another edition

dark funny medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Gore, Ableism, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

museofbookmares's review against another edition

dark funny 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Ableism

lynxpardinus's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Gaslighting, Murder, Animal death, Blood, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Toxic friendship, and Violence

Moderate: Body horror, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Torture, Infidelity, Ableism, Alcohol, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Car accident

Further warning for an implied teacher/student relationship, and at least one use of the R slur.

coldcrumble's review against another edition

dark funny tense

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

Genuinely not a clue what to rank this. Not a clue what I just read either. I have so many questions and I’m not entirely sure whether I got the answers or not. My head sort of hurts. I don’t know if this counts as magical realism or if everyone was just super high? I’m also not sure whether it was actually skilful, or just gripping because of how insanely bonkers it was. I feel it was a bit too in your face with the satire, but I didn’t mind too much because everything else almost balanced it out. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Violence

Moderate: Body horror, Drug use, Blood, and Gore

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Ableism, and Self harm

angryoppossum's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Moderate: Ableism and Gaslighting

Minor: Car accident

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