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emory's review against another edition
dark
tense
medium-paced
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
I have lots of thoughts on this book. I want to like it so bad. The concept is so amazing and the writing style flows so well, and the suspense and imagery is so greatly controlled its like watching a horror movie in your head (the scene of the bunny prom is maybe one of my favorite unnerving passages ive ever read; the way it unravels and it becomes apparent that things are just a little bit off is so great). But at about the halfway point the plot goes completely batshit and doesnt develop anything it set up and feels a bit like a TV show thats had too many seasons. And the motivations of the characters arent super convincing, especially when there was the opportunity to make the tension between Samantha and the bunnies revolve around class and academic inaccesibility, which was touched on lightly but then infuriatingly ends up boiling down to a juvenile "im not like the other girls" dialogue with questionable takeaways with the constant reference of the evil mean girl's "feminist ideals". I again cant stress enough how intruiging the concept, the prose, and even the first half of the book are, but then the convoluted and underdeveloped plot and odd messages sent through the setting and the repeatedly stressed role of gender kind of shoots the narrative in the foot. One of the most central parts of the plot, the part that turns this into a thriller, is barely touched on until the very end. The final plot twist is the good kind of equal parts foreshadowed and unexpected and repairs some damage, but not enough to make me stop twisting my face in confusion while reading.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Self harm, Sexual content, Violence, and Cursing
Minor: Eating disorder, Rape, and Suicidal thoughts
whatellisreadnext's review against another edition
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
"๐'๐ฎ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ณ๐ณ๐บ ๐ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ. ๐ ๐ข๐ฎ. ๐ ๐ง๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ญ ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ณ๐ช๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ. ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ ๐ฅ๐ฐ." ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ๐ด ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต๐ฉ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ๐ด. ๐ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฎ, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฆ. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ณ๐ถ๐ต๐ฉ ๐ช๐ด ๐ ๐ง๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ญ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ. ๐๐ต'๐ด ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐'๐ฎ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข๐ต ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ด๐ช๐ต๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ญ, ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ต๐ต๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฑ, ๐ฅ๐ข๐ณ๐ฌ ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ.
Samantha is doing her Masters in creative writing, alongside a group of rich girls who call each other 'Bunny'. She hates them. That is until she is invited into their fold, where she quickly becomes enamored by these girls, falling straight down the rabbit hole.
So many people told me this was super weird, so I had high expectations, but it just wasn't weird enough for me. Apparently, I have a high threshold for strangeness. Bunny sits kind of in the middle between weird books that still make sense and super weird books that are weird enough they don't need to make sense. I wanted more.
The set up was fantastic, like Samantha, I became obsessed with the girls and their cult dynamic. It felt like the book was building to some big wild ending, but I was left a little underwhelmed. I also don't think this book does great things for mental health representation, which is the same gripe I had with I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Ian Reid.
I just wanted more satanic shenanigans, but I still enjoyed the book as a whole, it kept my attention and was a great spookyish read for October. I'd love to know if you've read this one and how you feel about it!
Thanks to @headofzeus for the gifted copy in exchange of an honest review๐งก
Samantha is doing her Masters in creative writing, alongside a group of rich girls who call each other 'Bunny'. She hates them. That is until she is invited into their fold, where she quickly becomes enamored by these girls, falling straight down the rabbit hole.
So many people told me this was super weird, so I had high expectations, but it just wasn't weird enough for me. Apparently, I have a high threshold for strangeness. Bunny sits kind of in the middle between weird books that still make sense and super weird books that are weird enough they don't need to make sense. I wanted more.
The set up was fantastic, like Samantha, I became obsessed with the girls and their cult dynamic. It felt like the book was building to some big wild ending, but I was left a little underwhelmed. I also don't think this book does great things for mental health representation, which is the same gripe I had with I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Ian Reid.
I just wanted more satanic shenanigans, but I still enjoyed the book as a whole, it kept my attention and was a great spookyish read for October. I'd love to know if you've read this one and how you feel about it!
Thanks to @headofzeus for the gifted copy in exchange of an honest review๐งก
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Violence
theotheleo's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Death, and Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Eating disorder and Mental illness
perditorian's review against another edition
challenging
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore and Animal death
Moderate: Eating disorder, Self harm, and Body horror
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