Bunny
Author: Mona Awad
Published by: Head of Zues Ltd
Pages: 373
Format: Paperback
My Rating ★★★★★
Published by: Head of Zues Ltd
Pages: 373
Format: Paperback
My Rating ★★★★★
‘We call them Bunnies because that is what they call each other. Seriously, Bunny.’
Samantha Heather Mackey is an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA programme at Warren University. In fact, 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 then the Bunnies issue her with an invitation and Samantha finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door, across the threshold and down their rabbit hole.
My thoughts:
Absolutely spectacular. Completely bonkers, difficult to describe.
This novel is part young adult fiction but mostly psychological thriller. It was nothing like what I expected it to be from reading the blurb. When I found that the ‘clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other Bunny’ were more into rituals and murder than gossiping and sleepovers, I was taken by complete surprise. Wickedly funny and deliciously dark, Bunny is a messed-up fever dream that I did not want to wake up from.
Samantha’s journey of discovering this cult-like side of clique life and female friendship was both truly addictive and completely horrifying.
It gets very dark and brutal at times and there are some violent scenes. However, this contrasts nicely with Awad’s often humorous writing and the saccharine characters in their beautifully patterned dresses and heart-shaped sunglasses.
Bunny is so strange that it's hard to form an opinion, but I know I couldn’t put the book down. The weirdness did make some parts of the plot hard to follow, but it’s obvious that the storytelling is supposed to be disorienting by design. On another note, I appreciated Awad's dark sense of humour, which is on full display throughout the book, and especially when she describes the Bunnies for the first time.
Awad’s writing is fantastic, and her book is not only an exploration of what the imagination is capable of but also reflects so beautifully on female friendship and the power of group mentality.
This novel is so odd that it's not going to be for everyone, but I enjoyed it immensely. Bunny is fantastically unique, bizarre and, quite frankly, twisted, but for all the right reasons.
A horror tale within a psychological drama within a literary world created just for it's own ends, Bunny is probably the strangest novel I've read this year and also one of the most memorable. Whatever you are expecting I doubt it'll come anywhere close to being like that. Bunny is very much its own thing. I think it’s probably best to know as little as possible before starting this one. I really had no clue what was coming, and it was one of the weirdest books I’ve read in my life. Really bizarre, but I loved it.
I can’t recommend Bunny enough, although if you want to get any real plot details, you'll have to read it for yourself because I certainly can't realistically describe what takes place. It is a fever dream in essence, weird, and so utterly compelling that it drags you along in its wake, unable to look away as it gets progressively darker, stranger and more intricate.
Overall reaction:
Absolutely spectacular. Completely bonkers, difficult to describe.
This novel is part young adult fiction but mostly psychological thriller. It was nothing like what I expected it to be from reading the blurb. When I found that the ‘clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other Bunny’ were more into rituals and murder than gossiping and sleepovers, I was taken by complete surprise. Wickedly funny and deliciously dark, Bunny is a messed-up fever dream that I did not want to wake up from.
Samantha’s journey of discovering this cult-like side of clique life and female friendship was both truly addictive and completely horrifying.
It gets very dark and brutal at times and there are some violent scenes. However, this contrasts nicely with Awad’s often humorous writing and the saccharine characters in their beautifully patterned dresses and heart-shaped sunglasses.
Bunny is so strange that it's hard to form an opinion, but I know I couldn’t put the book down. The weirdness did make some parts of the plot hard to follow, but it’s obvious that the storytelling is supposed to be disorienting by design. On another note, I appreciated Awad's dark sense of humour, which is on full display throughout the book, and especially when she describes the Bunnies for the first time.
Awad’s writing is fantastic, and her book is not only an exploration of what the imagination is capable of but also reflects so beautifully on female friendship and the power of group mentality.
This novel is so odd that it's not going to be for everyone, but I enjoyed it immensely. Bunny is fantastically unique, bizarre and, quite frankly, twisted, but for all the right reasons.
A horror tale within a psychological drama within a literary world created just for it's own ends, Bunny is probably the strangest novel I've read this year and also one of the most memorable. Whatever you are expecting I doubt it'll come anywhere close to being like that. Bunny is very much its own thing. I think it’s probably best to know as little as possible before starting this one. I really had no clue what was coming, and it was one of the weirdest books I’ve read in my life. Really bizarre, but I loved it.
I can’t recommend Bunny enough, although if you want to get any real plot details, you'll have to read it for yourself because I certainly can't realistically describe what takes place. It is a fever dream in essence, weird, and so utterly compelling that it drags you along in its wake, unable to look away as it gets progressively darker, stranger and more intricate.
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