Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Bunny by Mona Awad

292 reviews

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

heartofhorrors'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

katelynnelawson's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

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

4.0

Not 100% sure what I just read but I mostly enjoyed it. Themes of the power creativity, the performance of femininity and connection, and the danger of isolation. I didn’t agree with some of the critique of the traditional femininity, but Samantha’s refusal to perform in the final chapter was satisfying.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Violence, Murder, Toxic relationship, Animal cruelty, Death, Toxic friendship, Misogyny, Body horror, and Animal death

Moderate: Classism, Alcohol, and Drug use

Minor: Death of parent, Addiction, and Rape

ahleetzel's review against another edition

dark funny medium-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Classism, and Blood

Moderate: Self harm

aidareads's review against another edition

4.0

i genuinely do not know what this is but. damn

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Gore

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Rape

micallab's review against another edition

dark emotional tense 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? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Blood, Drug abuse, Death, and Animal death

Minor: Death of parent

vic_mcqueen's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

You know those episodes on TV shows where the twist is they are living in a fictional world they create in their mind and reality is them sitting in a mental hospital with their loved ones begging them to 'wake up'? This book felt a lot like that to me. It's not a bad thing, as I really enjoy those episodes. 

The pacing of this is quite nice. It's pretty steady throughout. I found myself eager to know what happens next. By the halfway point, I was unsure what was real and what was created by the MC. 

This would be a book I'd add to my 'Wish I could read it again for the first time' list for sure. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood and Gore

Minor: Death of parent and Mental illness

loxeletters's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

What an interesting read! I especially enjoyed the themes of faux-feminism, the absurdity of academia, and the relationship between you and your creation. Regarding that last point, I think I might have benefitted from having read Frankenstein? It seems there's some links here, but that's just guess work. I still really enjoyed this, and though I didn't cry, the ending broke my heart.

It was quite depressing at times, which is why I couldn't rate this as "funny" even though the satirical aspects worked well. I guess that is the horror of this book for me - I wasn't very affected by the gore, I was never really scared, more just very depressed by the ongoing loneliness of our MC.

I can't say I could've guessed most of the major twists, which is a plus :)
Speaking of which, I agree that it's quite disorienting and difficult to figure out what is real and what isn't, but I think that's the point. I mean... They even discuss in the book how disorientation can be valuable for writing lol.

I did think the final scene was maybe a bit too clean-cut.
 

Maybe the way her relationship to Jonah is portrayed could have used some more nuance. He was always nice, sure, but I feel like her realisation that he just doesn't care about others' judgement doesn't really make up for the contempt she had for him throughout the book. He is always portrayed as so pathetic, and I can't really reconcile this with her attitude towards him at the end.

 
But this is somewhat nit-picky!

My second issue was the prose - overall it was good, but some phrasings were a bit repetitive for me. Maybe some adjectives could've been cut out as well. But that's just my personal taste, I think.

Overall, a very interesting book, which leaves you questioning what is real and what isn't, while providing some much-needed cultural criticism — exactly my cup of tea!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Toxic friendship, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Alcohol, Classism, Gore, Murder, Abandonment, Gaslighting, Grief, Death of parent, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Sexual content and Car accident