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Bunny

Mona Awad (Goodreads Author)

3.57 · Rating details · 51,627 ratings · 12,723 reviews

Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny," and seem to ...more

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Dec 06, 2019 Kat rated it really liked it

super fucking bizarre. i loved it.

i usually don't compare titles to explain books, but i think it's the best way to explain this one soooo
heathers meets the craft meets frankenstein. if that sounds like a good time to you READ THIS. ...more

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Mar 30, 2019 karen rated it really liked it

Shelves: free-from-work, girls-gone-wild, upstairs-neighbors

oooh, goodreads choice awards semifinalist for BEST HORROR 2019! what will happen?

this book is straight-up bonkers. seeing this was set “at an elite new england university” with an exclusive clique at its center and seeing it compared to Heathers, i went into it expecting a Megan Abbott-y/The Secret History-y type of deal; full of those dark and toxic currents that define adolescent girlhood, where affection shifts into power struggle at the drop of a hat, but also featuring a bunch of soulless ...more

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Oct 09, 2020 chloe rated it it was amazing

Shelves: cover-love, buddy-read, 2021-reads, patreon-buddy-read, 2020-reads, re-reads, 5-stars, favourite-books-of-all-time

2nd read: October 2021
buddy read with caitlin & my patrons
★★★★★!!!!!!!!!!!!

1st read: October 2020
buddy read with jaime & caitlin
★★★★★

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Oct 10, 2020 Riley rated it it was amazing

Shelves: horror

this was the weirdest book i've read in my life and i don't know if i loved it or hated it but it was amazing and broke my brain ...more

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Feb 24, 2021 emma rated it really liked it

Shelves: non-ya, authors-of-color, literary-fiction, 3-and-a-half-stars, recommend, owned, dark-academia, unpopular-opinion, mystery-thriller-horror-etc, lgbt-plus

I would join a cult with no questions asked.

I can't even pretend that I'm better than that, or smarter than that, or capable-er of reading red flags than that. The fact of the matter is that not only do I hate making decisions (and therefore find the idea of someone making all of mine for me very compelling), I also (due to years of being a teacher's pet nerd) am desperate to be cool.

Make that cult led by a bunch of hot girls in cute dresses and I am done for.

This is a very cool, very...funny in ...more

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Oct 22, 2021 chan ☆ rated it it was ok

Shelves: dnf, adult-contemporary, 2021

people get exhausted trying to figure me out, and i just let them
- this book @ me, midway through

this is just bizarre and not in a way that has me wanting to figure out what happens next. i wanted to slam my head into a wall trying to puzzle my way through writing that used phrases like "gynecological hand gestures." like what the fuck does that even mean. i guess i now understand people's inability to put this book into words in their reviews. because the book has nothing tangible to explain. ...more

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Aug 20, 2020 ELLIAS (elliasreads) rated it really liked it

Shelves: i-own, thriller-mystery, 2020-books

One of the weirdest fucking books I’ve ever read.

This book is the product child of a love triangle: if Mean Girls and Alice in Wonderland fell in love with The Craft.

If you like pretentious people in cliques and sacrificial cults and exploding heads and truly WTF moments, all at the same time getting their MFAs in writing and lit?

Then this one is for you.

4 STARS

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May 08, 2019 Michelle rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: edelweiss-arc-s

Hmmmm.....

I have no idea what I just read or how to review it. Does that work as a proper review? I'm not even going to attempt discussing the plot because...because.... See? I truly don't know how to.

Bizarre, strange, peculiar, unusual are just a few words that come to mind if I had to try and describe this mind fuck of a book. It's a very slip-streamy type of novel. A novel in which the entire time I read I had no idea what was going on and I still don't. Not a fucking clue.

"And then they hug Hmmmm.....

I have no idea what I just read or how to review it. Does that work as a proper review? I'm not even going to attempt discussing the plot because...because.... See? I truly don't know how to.

Bizarre, strange, peculiar, unusual are just a few words that come to mind if I had to try and describe this mind fuck of a book. It's a very slip-streamy type of novel. A novel in which the entire time I read I had no idea what was going on and I still don't. Not a fucking clue.

"And then they hug each other so hard I think their chests are going to implode. I would even secretly hope for it from where I sat, stood, leaned in the opposite corner of the lecture hall, department lounge, auditorium, bearing witness to four grown women - my academic peers - cooingly strangle each other hello. Or goodbye. Or just because your so amazing, Bunny. How fiercely they gripped each other's pink and white bodies, forming a hot little circle of such rib-crushing love and understanding that it took my breath away. And the nuzzling of ski-jump noses and peach fuzzy cheeks. Temples pressed against temples in a way that made me think of the labial rubbing bonobo or the telepathy of beautiful murderous children in horror films. All eight of their eyes shut tight as if this collective asphyxiation were a kind of religious bliss. All four of their glossy mouths making squealing sounds of monstrous love that hurt my face.

I love you, Bunny."

Did I like it? I kind of did. I can't deny the talent of this author. She's a wordsmith without a doubt. This book is being compared to Heathers and I think it's an appropriate comparison only this book is so much stranger. So much weirder. Some of the observations made by Samantha, our narrator, are downright snarky and hilarious and I was digging the vibe but then it all gets to be a bit too much. A bit too "out there" even for a weirdo like me.

Toward the end of the book I came across this quote in which I highlighted because it summed up my thoughts exactly:

"JUST SAY IT. TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED. TELL ME WHAT THE FUCK THIS MEANS AND WHAT YOU DID EXACTLY."

3 *WTF just happened?* stars!

Thank you to Edelweiss & Viking Books for providing me with a digital ARC in exchange for my honest review. ...more

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Jun 12, 2019 luce ❀ wishfully reading ❀ rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: she-is-dangerous, disappointing-reads, insufferable-protagonists, 2019-reviews, vi-not-for-me, overdrive-ebooks

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There are those bizarre and experimental books that manage to be entertaining, transgressive, and on occasion even thought-provoking. And then, there are books like Bunny whose weirdness largely rests on overusing the word bunny (which appears approximately 350 times, one time too many).
An intentionally silly story that owes more to Scream Queens and The Babysitter then Heathers or Mean Girls. If you are picking up Bunny thinking that it is some sort of intriguin | | blog | tumblr | ko-fi | |

There are those bizarre and experimental books that manage to be entertaining, transgressive, and on occasion even thought-provoking. And then, there are books like Bunny whose weirdness largely rests on overusing the word bunny (which appears approximately 350 times, one time too many).
An intentionally silly story that owes more to Scream Queens and The Babysitter then Heathers or Mean Girls. If you are picking up Bunny thinking that it is some sort of intriguing campus novel, you should reconsider given that this book is the anthesis to The Secret History. If you are hoping for some sort of absurdist black comedy à la Yorgos Lanthimos, think again. The 'satirical horror' I was hoping to encounter in Bunny was largely MIA.
Each page of this novel tries to be 'sarcastic' by exaggerating the mannerisms and words of certain groups of people (in this case a creative writing clique) which made for a weary reading experience.

Writing about writing is never an easy endeavour since there is the high risk that you will remind your readers that they are indeed 'reading' a fictitious work. Since the main cast in Bunny is part of a creative writing MFA program...we were constantly reminded of how inane criticism can be. The five girls part of this program are apparently only able to write fiction that reflects their personal life or preferences...funnily enough, a lot of the criticism that these characters throw at each other's pieces of writing could easily be aimed at Bunny (oh, the irony):

“Um, what the fuck is this, please? This makes no sense. This is coy and this is willfully obscure and no one but [the author] will ever get this […] spoiled, fragmented, lazy, pretentious […] And then I feel like screaming JUST SAY IT. TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED. TELL ME WHAT THE FUCK THIS MEANS AND WHAT YOU DID WITH HIM EXACTLY.”

Four of these girls are part of a clique that is the ultimate parody of cliques. From the first few pages they are presented as some sort of 'hive-mind', some sort of multi-conscious entity. Some of their conversations between them—as well as the narrator's observations about them—could be amusing.
Although the narrator keeps insisting that she is 'different' (aka the only 'big' difference between her and the bunnies is her finances) she falls prey to this clique. Personally, I don't think the story provides with a convincing reason for the MC to fall in with these girls. Even when the Mc sees their most secretive activities...it seemed that she stayed with them out of laziness (or merely as a way to further the plot).
The weirdness of this story seems contrived. This whole novel seems (rather ironically) like an exercise for a creative writing class. Many of the 'bizarre' elements in this story were predictable and had me rolling my eyes. The whole book is like a joke that goes on for too long. The first few chapters were amusing and the scenes that took place in the creative writing workshop were on point (and reminded me of the creative writing module I took in my first year of uni):

“Samantha, we’re at Warren. The most experimental, groundbreaking writing school in the country. This goes way beyond genre. It subverts the whole concept of genre.”
“And gender narratives.”
“And the patriarchy of language.”
“Not to mention the whole writing medium.”
“It basically fucks the writing medium, Samantha. Which is dead anyway, you know?”
“Exactly. This is about the Body. Performing the Body. The Body performing in all its nuanced viscerality.”

Yet, soon enough the repetitiveness of these exchanges grew tiresome and the style of the narrative became increasingly annoying and unnecessary. The narrative mimics the language—and perhaps vision—of this clique of girls: it is sweet, sticky, and extra. If you like eating candy floss until you feel sick you might be up for it...the narrative—if not the whole story—is a parody that lacks subtlety or real wit:

Here at Mini they have many cupcakes in mini but they should have more. Why don’t they have more? They should have more in mini, more! We tell them how they should have more in mini and they do not seem to make a note of it.

The narrative's style was so repetitive! All too frequently words were repeated three times in a row in a cheap attempt to give urgency to the story.
The plot (if we can call it that) even in its 'wtf moments' is tedious. The characters and story seem merely a backdrop to this sickeningly sweet and repetitive language (hair like feathers, tiny pink-y small-ish hand, glossy this and that, teensy-weensy girls who eat teensy-weensy food).
This book didn't inspire feelings of panic or fear, which I was expecting given its summary...I was never afraid of these ~~demented~~ girls and their stupid activities. A lot of the things seem to just happen to the MC as if she isn't capable of these ~~laughable~~ 'terrible' things from happening (insert eye roll here). Again, I find it ironic that the MC's own writing is criticised for this exact reason:

“Although we could hardly call her a heroine, could we? I mean, could we even call her that, Samantha? […] She’s quite passive, Samantha, isn’t she?”

I guess you could argue that this is all 'intentional'. The stupid characters, the saccharine and repetitive language, the MC's spinelessness...these things come across this way on purpose...but that seems like a cheap excuse to make the lazy and unfunny elements of your story 'deliberate'.
The worst 'sin' of all is that this book leaves us with a less than favourable opinion about writing and criticism...which isn't a great message.

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Jul 17, 2019 Jenny rated it did not like it

*deep, deep breath*

*lung-bursting shrieks*

*choked swear words*

*another deep breath in, then out*

Alright, with that out of the way, let's get this shit over with.

MASSIVE FUCKING SPOILER WARNING!!!!!!

Words cannot, and I mean CANNOT, express how disappointed I am with this novel. I went from, "wow, this is so creepy, I love it!" to "well, that was a little disappointing," to "FUCK THIS SHIT SO FUCKING HARD." The best word I can use to sum up my emotions right now (aside from the obvious ones like r ...more

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Aug 11, 2020 Melissa ♥ Dog/Wolf Lover ♥ Martin rated it did not like it

Shelves: library-book, 1-star, don-t-question-my-ratings, dark, don-t-kill-animals-stars-taken-off, horror-gothic-etc

1 Star

Well, I didn’t like it!

And I think everyone was hitting the crack pipe. I’m weird and messed up enough without this 🤣😂

And it seems like they were blowing up bunnies or some weird shit

Yeah...

So, I’m climbing out of the rabbit hole and on to the next book!

Happy Reading!

Mel 🖤🐶🐺🐾

BLOG: https://melissa413readsalot.blogspot.... ...more

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Jun 10, 2019 Betsy rated it really liked it

Okay, what just happened here?

I'll quote one of the characters to explain my feelings about Bunny--"And then I feel like screaming JUST SAY IT. TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED. TELL ME WHAT THE FUCK THIS MEANS."

The publisher's blurb doesn't even begin to capture what happens in Bunny. At first, I thought I'd be reading an R rated version of Mean Girls.

As I read, I found that wasn't quite right, so then I thought, "Okay, maybe it's Stephen King does Mean Girls."

It turned out that that description didn't ...more

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Oct 14, 2020 Caitlin rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favourites

“A book should be like an ax.”

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Jan 22, 2022 Jananie (thisstoryaintover) added it · review of another edition

Shelves: books-i-own

Consider me SHOOKETH.

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Jan 12, 2020 Michael Finocchiaro rated it really liked it

Shelves: canadian-21st-c, novels, fantasy, fiction, thriller

I have, like, no clue what I just read. A post-feminist Fight Club? A sort-of inverted Traumnovelle / Eyes Wide Shut? An appeal for Bunnies or an ode to wolves? The writing was interesting-very uber-millennial complete with emojis, selfies, self-indulgent musing, semi-pretentious name-dropping, sarcasm-laden descriptions.

I stare at them all through Kira's pink heart-shaped glasses. This is how she must see the world all the time. I look at their dark pink faces, so suddenly grave. I should call
I have, like, no clue what I just read. A post-feminist Fight Club? A sort-of inverted Traumnovelle / Eyes Wide Shut? An appeal for Bunnies or an ode to wolves? The writing was interesting-very uber-millennial complete with emojis, selfies, self-indulgent musing, semi-pretentious name-dropping, sarcasm-laden descriptions.

I stare at them all through Kira's pink heart-shaped glasses. This is how she must see the world all the time. I look at their dark pink faces, so suddenly grave. I should call the police. I should run to Mexico. (p. 109)

Samantha/Smackie is a grad student at a prestigious (pour ne pas dire pretentious) university in a northeastern city (that strongly resembles Boston where the author currently lives according to Wikipedia). It is hard to tell apart what is pure fantasy from Samatha's overactive imagination and what is real, but she is definitely wired differently than just about everyone. Her erstwhile best-friend, Ava, is the polar opposite to the somewhat cannibalistic Bunnies (Eleonore/Duchess, Kira/Creepy Doll, Victoria/Vignette, Caroline/Cupcake) who are in Sam's writing Workshop with the formidable Ursula/KareKare. Ava represents her tragic past (mother died of a car accident when she was 13, her father on the lamb because of poor business decisions) and the Bunnies represent a privileged life which Facebook and Instagram and Disney promise to us if we are starborn and, preferably, white, blonde, and blue-eyed. Naturally, there is a tension between these two worlds existing in Sam's psyche which gets eventually personified in the Max/Ax/Wolf character later in the book. She is attracted to the capitalist dream that the Bunnies represent, but also repulsed by it - wanting to give in and wanting to fight, Ultimately, she only goes halfway: and that's when I realize that whatever pain I have, whatever true want I have that lives under all this greasy, spineless needing to please, isn't something I want to give them. (p. 169)

Things start out normal-enough and quickly become bizarre with violence, drugs, and sexual fantasies all mixed up like a frozen cocktail of Cray 👻🌷 (as one of the Bunnie's messages on Sam's phone might say). And then the reality drops out the bottom for about 2/3 of the book. There is a little bit of clarity at the end, but even that is elusive at best.

Overall, I would say it is a sort of amped-up, millennial version of a schizophrenic, anti-establishment story like Fight Club from a female perspective. A fun and interesting, if somewhat disturbing, read. ...more

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Apr 16, 2020 Gabby rated it really liked it

Shelves: all-time-favorites, favorites, reviewed, liked-it, love-the-concept, incredible-plot-twists, adult, arc-or-won-or-received, read-in-2020, mind-blown

This is the strangest book I’ve ever read but I kind of loved it. I recently just read this for a video having absolutely no idea what it was about or what to expect but I’m genuinely surprised by how much I enjoyed this. I think the other reviewers comparisons are completely accurate, this story is: Mean Girls meets Frankenstein meets The Secret History meets Jennifer’s Body... and it also reminds me a lot of the movie Sorry to Bother You as well..?

But this story is so fucking weird and strange ...more

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Nov 11, 2021 ❀ Lily ❀ added it

I have no idea how i feel about this book.
i actually can't tell if i liked it or hated it... I need to sit with this for a while ...more

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Jun 20, 2019 Deece de Paor rated it did not like it

Shelves: absolutely-terrible

God this was truly awful. You know when you get a feel for a book and the feel is, ‘I don’t like this but I’m going to give it a chance?’ But then you give it a chance and it doesn’t improve? So that happened.
As I read I thought this author must be very young and will be embarrassed by this in ten years.
It’s like a much worse Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas but completely uninteresting.
I would not recommend this to anyone.

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Sep 03, 2019 Johann (jobis89) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites

“The poets brace themselves for imminent, overeducated poverty.”

Samantha Heather Mackey couldn’t be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England’s Warren University. She is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort - a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other “Bunny”. But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies’ fabled “Smut Salon”...

Wickedly funny and deliciously dark, Bunny is a messed up fever dre ...more

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Jun 11, 2021 myo (myonna reads) rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: dark-academia

i think i had too high of expectations for this book because this gave absolutely nothing, i’m like so disappointed because i expected so much from this book 😭 and as a Heather’s fan i’m mad yall keep comparing because they share no similarities besides having all the girls share a name. It’s also not dark comedy cus aint shit funny in this book. I think for a dark academia book to have supernatural aspect it needed to at least explain that. I don’t mind unexplainable things or weird books but w ...more

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Jul 17, 2019 Laurie rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Recommended to Laurie by: Emily

Shelves: horror, favorites, ladiesofhorrorfiction, dark-fiction, audiobook

This book is pure demented madness.

I loved it. I loved all of it and I think all of you weirdos should read it because you might just love it too. Just don’t ask me what it was about because I have no idea what the heck I just read and I am perfectly fine with that, haha!

I was in a huge book funk when my friend Emily recommend this book to me as a must read. She knows her stuff and I listened and it was exactly what I needed. I blew through this book in two days on audio and was so involved at o This book is pure demented madness.

I loved it. I loved all of it and I think all of you weirdos should read it because you might just love it too. Just don’t ask me what it was about because I have no idea what the heck I just read and I am perfectly fine with that, haha!

I was in a huge book funk when my friend Emily recommend this book to me as a must read. She knows her stuff and I listened and it was exactly what I needed. I blew through this book in two days on audio and was so involved at one point that I walked into the shower with my headphones still in my ears. By some strange turn of fate, I did not fry my earbuds or what is left of my brain and now I think may shell out some bucks for water-proof earbuds because I think I just found myself a few more minutes of reading time!

I think you should go into this book as blind as possible and I’m not going to be the one to spoil any of its surprises and will keep it brief. Samantha is a graduate student working on her MFA degree. She has to go to “workshop” in order to complete her degree and, too bad for her, this workshop is infested with a cliquey group of young women who wear dresses with cupcakes and kittens on them, who only eat itty-bitty food and who twitter and coo and call each other Bunny. They ignored the darkling Samantha the previous year except to bitterly and cruelly critique her work. Samantha is pretty okay with the status quo because who the hell wants to be a Bunny?! But one day Samantha receives a rare and coveted invitation to one of their “Slut Salons” and isn’t sure what to do. But she’s as nosy as me, apparently, and against her better judgement she goes and the story pretty much goes batshit crazy from that point on and I couldn’t describe it if I tried. It truly has to be read to be believed. So go read it!

This book is surreal, deliciously evil, and wickedly funny and the writing is weirdly addictive. It’s getting all the stars because I loved every single twisted turn and madness infused word within its pages. You probably won’t know exactly what you’ve read once you finish it but I bet you’ll be happy you read it.

“The night is a dark earth I could dig my hands into forever.”
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Nov 14, 2020 Sara (sarawithoutanH) rated it did not like it

Shelves: 2020

I want to be the person likes weird books but I don't think I'm the person who likes weird books.

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Sep 15, 2019 ALet rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: read-in-2019

★★ /5

This was interesting, but not captivating enough to hold my attention.

I liked how the author wasn‘t afraid of taking risks. I found the characters interesting, but after a while, they blend into one another. The plot itself was fine, I particularly enjoyed the first part, but second and third become less and less interesting, shook factor didn't affect me after a while.

This was a unique book, but it didn't blow me away.
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Jan 30, 2021 Nenia ✨ I yeet my books back and forth ✨ Campbell rated it liked it

Shelves: dark-academia, thriller, horror, the-lost-girls

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I need somebody smarter than me to read this book and tell me what they think happened because I am so confused. The first half of this book is a brilliant satire of liberal art schools and pretentious art schools via a sort of Stepford Wives medium and I was super into it. The Bunnies, like the Plastics from Mean Girls, were compelling Queen Bee figures and I was interested in their culty vibe.

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Jul 12, 2019 D. St. Germain rated it liked it

Loved the snarky sentences for awhile, but riding the rollercoaster of caustic commentary has only so much charm - eventually this book starts to feel as mean-spirited and vacuous as the rest of our modern discourse. The ubiquitousness of this way of telling stories makes me feel like a sick and drowning rat in a raging storm sewer. This is not a feeling I turn to literature to have.

If you suspect everyone may be a nightmare human and want to have those feelings validated, this is your book. Hav ...more

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Sep 07, 2020 Kim ~ It’s All About the Thrill rated it it was ok

Umm no! Soo I am beginning to slowly figure out that horror books are not for me. Don't get me wrong, I like creepy books but this was all kinds of messed up. Way messed up. It wasn't even creepy, it was just plain weird. I am at a loss as to how to even review this. I mean exploding bunnies?! 🐰

I don't hand out one star reviews, but this one almost got one. The only thing that made it a two star was I actually enjoyed the beginning. Samantha was struggling to fit in with a group of " girly, girl ...more

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Jul 03, 2021 Starlah rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2021, mystery-thriller, horror

i dont know what the fuck i just read. i dont know why im emotional about it by the end. i dont know why i fucking loved it.

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Nov 07, 2020 Sara rated it it was ok · review of another edition

I don't even know , what did I even read ? I'm just realy sad because I realy wanted to love this😿. I didn't find it fun or unique but just weird and confusing🙄
2⭐⭐ ...more

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Jan 16, 2020 Thomas rated it liked it

Shelves: read-on-nook, own-electronic, adult-fiction, horror

Okay so I have no idea what the heck happened in this book. I got the basic premise: we follow Samantha Mackey, an MFA student at Warren University, an elite college school in New England. Samantha hates the Bunnies, a clique of four rich, popular female students who hug each other a lot and say fake nice things about each other’s writing. Samantha’s feelings toward the Bunnies start to shift though when they invite her to their Smut Salon, a night entrenched in mystery and erotica. After Samant Okay so I have no idea what the heck happened in this book. I got the basic premise: we follow Samantha Mackey, an MFA student at Warren University, an elite college school in New England. Samantha hates the Bunnies, a clique of four rich, popular female students who hug each other a lot and say fake nice things about each other’s writing. Samantha’s feelings toward the Bunnies start to shift though when they invite her to their Smut Salon, a night entrenched in mystery and erotica. After Samantha starts to integrate into the Bunnies’ clique, she begins to lose her sense of what is real and what is imagined about herself and others, just as I lost my sense of the plot of this book as it progressed.

I found this book, especially the first half, pretty hilarious. I loved Mona Awad’s satirical writing style and how she pokes fun at the elitist and oftentimes classist culture that exists within MFA programs (which I think also exists at other institutions of higher education.) Certain lines cracked me up, such as when she describes the bunnies’ skins as “glowing with health insurance” and how one of the bunnies describes her “inaccessible and cryptic” writing as “proems.” I appreciated the themes of how individual identity can fold to groupthink, the allure of the unknown and the risky, as well as how the isolation of a writer’s life and of anyone’s life can elicit some pretty hectic and painful emotions and life experiences.

I just have no idea what really happened about halfway in through the book. Perhaps that’s the point as several others also felt lost and still liked the novel – maybe that’s the point, like this book is an acid trip and you don’t really have to know what’s going on to enjoy the ride. I’m not sure whether I wanted a more navigable plot or a more consistent main character, because I found it difficult to care about or empathize with Samantha through the book. I feel that the book perhaps serves its purpose and description well, as a Heathers meets Mean Girls meets horror film meets snobby MFA mashup, though I wanted it to reach my heart more, regardless of whether that was the book’s intent. ...more

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May 16, 2019 Blair rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: macabre-slipstream-weird, read-on-kindle, contemporary, secret-history-esque, edelweiss, 2019-release

Samantha is a graduate student with writer's block. She's from a poor background and doesn't really fit in at moneyed Warren University, where her four workshop partners have formed an insular clique. They call themselves the Bunnies – they literally all call each other 'Bunny' – and their conversations are studded with declarations of love, cliched Instagram-hashtag phrases and sycophantic compliments on the brilliance and originality of one another's work. From the sidelines, Samantha finds it ...more

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Mona Awad was born in Montreal and has lived in the US since 2009. Her debut novel, 13 WAYS OF LOOKING AT A FAT GIRL (Penguin Books, 2016), won the Amazon Best First Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize. Her second novel, BUNNY (Viking, 2019), was a finalist for a GoodReads Choice Award for Best Horror, the New England Book Award and the Massachusetts Book Award. It won the Ladies ...more

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