Bunny

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).