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By: Mona Awad
Narrated by: Sophie Amoss
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The Vegetarian meets Heathers in this darkly funny, seductively strange novel about a lonely graduate student drawn into a clique of rich girls.

'We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. We very nearly did, didn't we?'

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 are often found entangled in a group hug so tight they become one.

But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled 'Smut Salon' and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door - ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the sinister yet saccharine world of the Bunnies, the edges of reality begin to blur, and her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies are brought into deadly collision.

A spellbinding, down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, creativity and agency, and friendship and desire, Bunny is the dazzlingly original second book from the author of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl.

©2019 Mona Awad (P)2019 Listening Library
Dark Humour Fantasy Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Satire Women's Fiction Funny Mind-bending Witty Scary
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So I got this on 2 for 1 credit sale on Audible, I actually have it in paperback that one of my lovely friends got me a while ago so I was eager to read it. I’ve heard so many good things but I really don’t know how to feel about it 🫣

This is a story about Samantha an awkward girl just trying to survive life whilst having a darkly Hilarious inner monologue. She has one bestie, Ava & was happy to keep it that way. That is until the bunnies took a shining to her & begin inviting her to the most bizarre antics.

Samantha seems to unravel, not sure what’s real or not. She’s caught up in the bunnies, she’s in too deep…she’s become one of them. The bunnies are crazy, creating playthings from actual bunnies & discarding the rejects. Is this a cult? What’s real & what’s not…she feels like she’s going crazy 😵‍💫

This literally reads like a fever dream, like she’s on a constant trip, it’s so weird!! I really thought I was going to enjoy it as it’s likened to things I do enjoy (like the Heathers) & I was really excited by the first couple of chapters but then it just seemed to go off in every direction. It was hard to keep up with what on earths going on with her, or the bunnies, even I didn’t know what was real or not 🫣😂

Maybe it would have been better to read it instead of audible but I just don’t think it was for me 🤷🏼‍♀️ I also don’t feel like it is anything like the Heathers, that’s one of my fav films & the only similarity is the fact they all call each other the same name 🫣

I do have rouge by this author too so I’m happy to give it another try with a different book & hopefully enjoy that one.

Not for me unfortunately

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I personally didn't love this book but I can objectively appreciate the beauty in it. Awad writes with such poetic language and makes a really visceral statement on female relationships. It felt like a crazy fever dream reading this. I appreciated the genre subversion and rat girl to bunny girl to rat girl pipeline. It's definitely one for arthouse literature students to study and dissect but if you're a casual reader just looking to be entertained i'd give it a miss.

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The narration was the best bit. Potentially great idea wasted by poor story and unlikeable characters

OK at best

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Performance of the voice actor was absolutely amazing. She was great. Really got sucked into it with her voice. The story however fell flat in a lot of places. Some of it was really good, enticing and really different from other books. The dark humor was great. But a lot of parts was also boring in a way. Some things led no where, and there were just a lot of nonsensical sequences. Some things could’ve been explored better, but the overall story was decent. Again, voice actor was truly amazing. Don’t think I could’ve gotten through the book if I read it.

The story was… okay

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I am not a fan of magical realism at all so I can't really understand how I like this, but I do, I really do - SO much, Bunny! 🐇

It's a really strange but engaging tail from start to finish. Funny, witty and beautifully written.

I don't really understand the boys/darlings/hybrids though. I mean what exactly was their purpose, in terms of helping them with their experimental writing? The whole book kinda became too focussed on them then which I found irritating. These supposedly very smart and highly educated women spending so much time and energy on dream boys. Meh.

So yeah, parts could have maybe gone in a better direction, but it's still completely worth it and I recommend it to anyone who appreciates stepping outside the lines sometimes.

The narration was brilliant. (I mean, the less said about her attempt at a Scottish accent the better 🤫) That aside though it was just perfect!

Overall a really great experience. I'm so glad I ignored all the reviews from all the people not feeling the love for this wonderfully weird book!
I almost want to listen to it all over again immediately!


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