cybermathwitch 's review for:

Bunny by Mona Awad

3.0

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Best I can describe this is psychotically mixed up cross between The Secret History and Revolutionary Girl Utena, but written while on a really bad trip of some kind.
I don’t think I liked it, but I’m tentatively concerned that may have something to do with the narration of the audiobook. Would I have felt differently about it if I’d read it in print? Possibly? Maybe? I don’t know. That said I don’t think that I care enough at the end of the day to try reading it again to find out.

I will say that I had some serious questions about Ava’s reality from the very first scene. I don’t think that predictability in and of itself is a bad thing and I certainly don’t ding a book or rate it any lower just because I saw what was coming. However, it kind of feels like the author sacrificed either leaving the twists ambiguous to the reader to ponder, and/or the power of any individual twist by just including all the twists.
Also, I have very little patience for the ideas and tropes around what does or doesn’t make something “art” or valuable, and while I think the book in some ways was trying to subvert those ideas, it kind of just reinforces them by its very existence. So.