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A review by whatellisreadnext
Bunny by Mona Awad
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