Bunny by Mona Awad

Synopsis:

'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.

Blending sharp satire with fairytale horror, Bunny is a spellbinding trip of a novel from one of fiction's most original voices.

'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.

Blending sharp satire with fairytale horror, Bunny is a spellbinding trip of a novel from one of fiction's most original voices.

Review:

I feel like this book is completely different to how it has been talked about on the internet. It is still a great book, however it is more representative to the lengths in which loneliness and isolation will take you to eliminate the emptiness inside. In that aspect, I think Samantha's character was very well written and the dive into her inner psyche is very interesting. You can see how self-destructive she really is in order to try and build a connection.

The second half of the book was much better for me, it was a lot more engaging. I love how extremely peculiar it became, where at some points you really start to wonder what is happening.

Overall, I would recommend this book if you were interested in more of a kooky read, compared to the cultish deep dive the internet described it to be.

*Spoilers*

If you also enjoy psychologically analysing characters then you would probably agree that watching Samantha change with the Bunnies is probably the most interesting part of this book. I love comparing how she was so reluctant to engaging with them at the beginning, to how desperate she became to stay with them and appease them near the end. Mona Awad was fantastic at showing the character development.

Also, the downfall of the Bunnies at the end literally made it impossible to put the book down for a second. I think I read all of the peculiarness of the second half in one sitting just because I NEEDED to know where it was going. I had no idea where Max was going to take the whole story but the way it progresses with him is so engaging.

I just love how simultaneously creeped out yet possessive Samantha is over him, and how she isn't completely confident in what might have happened.

I just don't quite know what to think of the overall plot twist with Ava. That's the one thing I can't make up a thought on.

But in the end this is such a gooddd weird girl read.