A review by acogna
Bunny by Mona Awad

dark mysterious tense medium-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

2.75

You should read this for the prose. It's humorous, gritty, dark, animalistic, fairytale-like; it feels like the true successor to the ominous and floral imagination of writers like Angela Carter. But besides that, I felt it didn't go all-out with its extremely promising concept. I don't say this as a bad thing, because Mona Awad really feels like the type of writer to be so self-aware. I didn't get much out of her ideas here as much as I wanted, with as much as I trusted her to deliver.

Knowing what this book is now, it could have done so much more.
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