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A review by ryannrripley
Bunny by Mona Awad
dark
funny
slow-paced
4.0
I have mixed feelings about this book. On one hand, it’s an amazing story about friendship and the terror of one’s own creativity, which I like. On the other hand, it’s too in love with itself.
We get paragraph after paragraph of the rewriting of common phrases like *pregnant pause* into something like *pregnant pause gives birth, devours its own spawn, and then becomes pregnant again* (I’m paraphrasing). Sounds cool? It is, except when it happens every damn sentence and you become numb to it. I want to savor the taste of your writing, not choke to death on it. I get it, the gross self love thing that artists do is part of the point, but I just didn’t think that it was the right choice.
Despite everything, I couldn’t bear to give it less than four stars. Good story.
We get paragraph after paragraph of the rewriting of common phrases like *pregnant pause* into something like *pregnant pause gives birth, devours its own spawn, and then becomes pregnant again* (I’m paraphrasing). Sounds cool? It is, except when it happens every damn sentence and you become numb to it. I want to savor the taste of your writing, not choke to death on it. I get it, the gross self love thing that artists do is part of the point, but I just didn’t think that it was the right choice.
Despite everything, I couldn’t bear to give it less than four stars. Good story.