Review by lostgwennel - Bunny

lostgwennel 's review for:

Bunny by Mona Awad

4.75

dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This book is AMAZING. It managed to really hit the spot for me by blending satire on mean popular girls with the perfect amount of magical realism. Extremely readable.

There’s one phrase the author used way too much, which might be a Canadian/American thing, but is still distracting and unnecessary. I started dog-earring the pages that used it so I could keep track:

“the ill will poured forth from my eyes like so much comic-book-venom”
“the words fall from my mouth like so many dead leaves”
“the words I need are high and floating in the sky like so many out-of-reach balloons”
“whatever vile lie or half-truth she feeds them like so much cheap candy”
“the poor graduate students her mother has insisted on sheltering like so many lame chicks”
“to spin the pain and fear and shame that lives there into so much literary gold”
“the knives and the wolf have fallen away like so much costume makeup”
“it caresses my shoulder like so much black silk”

Why why why? It’s not grammatical and adds nothing to the simile. Just get rid of those two words:

“the words fall from my mouth like dead leaves”
“the words I need are high and floating in the sky like out-of-reach balloons”
“the poor graduate students her mother has insisted on sheltering like lame chicks”
“to spin the pain and fear and shame that lives there into literary gold”
“the knives and the wolf have fallen away like costume makeup”
“it caresses my shoulder like black silk”

See how much better the sentences flow? You don’t need them! Throw them out the window! Girl dump him!

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