Bunny
Ratings422
Average rating3.5
I wasn't sure if I was meant to interpret this book literally or figuratively, which just made the reading experience all the more interesting... This book reminded me why magic realism is my favourite genre.
If you thought Bella Swan from Twilight was too charismatic and not whiny or spineless enough, boy are you in for a treat when you discover Samantha Mackey!
I'm so sorry to those who love this book but oh my god it annoyed the absolute fuck out of me. the story wasn't even that weird, everyone kept hyping it up as the weirdest shit they ever read like
literally what the fuck
but in a good way lol
if you want your mind fucked, this is the one.
I don't know how many times I have layed the book on my chest after reading a chapter and just said to myself “what the fuck, what the actual fuck just happened”. This whole book is like one big fever dream and it was excellent. I imagine someone could go on and on analysing every tiny little detail of this and tell you why it was brilliant. I just know that it was.
This is definitely not a book you want to read when you are having any sort of hallucination-ish symptoms of any kind. I learned that the hard way and put it away immediately. It definitely makes you think you are going insane. But I fucking love that.
dnf @ 40%
wtf is going on. i'm reading so much and nothing at the same time. i hate the writing style. everything's so confusing!!!!! the characters are so bad and i can't even tell them apart that's how similarly written everything is. i'm bored
Blew my socks off with how much there was beneath the story on the surface.
Again, it's ambiguous and up for personal interpretation so if you're not into that, and magical realism, this one isn't for you.
Very weird, yet brilliantly well written. Had me thinking about it for weeks later.
Definitely not for everyone, but worth a shot.
I loved it.
Couldn't get into the writing. Might revisit at a later point, but the voice of the protagonist infuriated me.
Loved the premise and the setup but I didn't feel satisfied after reading it. I felt I was left with more questions.
I feel like there was so much build up for the ending to reveal something we knew in the first 15% of the book. I enjoyed my time reading it but I am pretty disappointed with the ending.
Bunny – Did Not Finish
Well... as is often the case, maybe I’m just not the target demographic. I tried to stick with it, hoping it would improve, but ultimately it felt too juvenile to hold my interest. What frustrated me most was that, while the overarching story is original, the characters felt like clichés pulled from countless teen movies. Maybe the author will mature with time, maybe not—but I’m not sure I’ll be giving her another chance.
Confusion
I’m someone who wants to love everything I pick up. I go in hoping to be hooked, to feel something. I even wanted to love this book. I would’ve settled for liking it. But when I finished, all I could think was: What did I just read?
If you loved this book, I respect that. I just couldn’t connect with it. I loved the cover — that’s where the love ends.
Honestly, I don’t even know how to review this. I'm not going to attempt to break down the plot because... well, I still don't know what the plot was. Bizarre, strange, peculiar, unusual — all words that come to mind. This book is a complete head trip. Total slipstream territory. I had no clue what was happening the entire time, and I still don’t. Not a damn clue.
Did I like it? Kind of. I can’t deny the author is talented — her writing is sharp. She’s a wordsmith, no question. The book’s been compared to Heathers, and I get that. But this? It’s way weirder. Samantha, the narrator, has some hilarious, biting observations, and I was into it for a while. But then it went completely off the rails. Just too far out, even for someone like me who normally enjoys the weird stuff.
I don’t have the words to explain it, and I won’t be posting this on Amazon — I’m pretty sure they’d flag it for sheer confusion. But I would still read something else by this author, especially if it leans horror. She’s got something. I just hope next time it hits me differently.
Horror mystery with a dash of satire, magical realism, gothic fairytale and dark academia, it follows Samantha a college student in her last year of writing master degree, who becomes drawn to a clique of young creepy women calling themselves « Bunny ».
So this is my second Mona Awad book (read Rouge in 2023 and loved it). Like my previous read, I think this author does such a great job creating a fever dream atmosphere with a dizzying, psychedelic writing. This felt like reading a train wreck happened in slow motion, full of unhinged and weird moments. I especially liked the use of the « we » pronouns that showed the weirdness and surreal clique symbiosis. I do love all the themes developed here like the creative process, the arrogance, hypocrisy, superficiality in art and academia. I think the author really showed this, perfectly rendering through the satire quality. The main character was compelling enough, though I found her passivity a bit jarring at times. Also I wasn't totally convinced about why she was attracted to the Bunnies in the first place, and fell so quickly into their clique. The pacing felt a bit off for me, the appearance of a character could have been done a bit earlier in my opinion and the ending a bit too rushed. Anyways, despite that I'll probably check out the sequel and other books from Mona Awad (All's Well being on my physical tbr).
Well, I gave a good 3 chapters and it was a big fat no thank you.
I HATED the BFF, Ava or whatever. And the whiney mc, literally bitching about the "plastics," then describing her generic "pink/goth," BFF hitting all the cliches like it's literally not the same ting.
I just can't with white women.
It's a dark, bizarre horror story with sharp commentary on life, friendship, and the desire to fit in. At times, the story makes you question what's real and what's not. The main character, Samantha Mackey, is an awkward grad student who feels like an outsider at her prestigious university. She has trouble fitting in, especially with a group of popular, rich girls known as “The Bunnies.” At first, the Bunnies seem sweet and harmless, but as the story goes on, things become increasingly strange. By the end, not everything is clear, and the book leaves many questions unanswered.
I really enjoyed reading it. While it has some disturbing content at times, overall, I was curious until the very end.
Pretty sure I wasn't the target audience for this one. The description of dysfunctional academic life is enough of a horror story without anything supernatural going on.
Having had time to think on this, I realised I had no real idea what was going on.
The book seems to be a commentary on what happens when we abandon our friends and ourselves in the desperation to 'fit in' with people we normally wouldn't. Sometimes choices are made and you can't take them back, and you may just lose everything you had before.
The MC appears to be another unlikable girl who thinks she knows everything but is easily led along by the stronger characters around her. This is to her detriment, and is a message a lot of us could have used in our younger years.
In the end I don't even know if everything was just some crazy drug trip. Maybe I would understand better on a second reading, but I likely won't give it the time.
i finished reading this and I knew I liked it. however, I was still super confused so I went on reddit and some threads dumbed it down for me, and now i love it.
Surreal but like a good surreal, one with...a good story to tell. I'm left with wanting more but already feel full. Like, I want to go comatose on her work!!! Weird, but in the best way.
Scary & a little confusing, but overall unhinged in a good way. Definitely has multiple possible interpretations.
I gotta stew on this. I liked it, I'm just not sure how much I liked it overall. I liked the writing quite a bit. It's just...does the story work for me?