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A review by beatrizdizon_
Bunny by Mona Awad
4.0
Holy smokes, what a read. I love seeing other people’s interpretations because there is definitely not just one way of looking at this.
The girl cult genre of it all is so interesting. I just have some mental notes on the writing style, how the words don’t flow seamlessly in my head at first so I’m not always pulled entirely into the story. It took some getting used to.
I see the similarities with Heathers and I read Samantha like how Veronica narrates, especially because I love both the movie and musical. But it is also so distinct as its own entity.
The build-up is worth it when you get to the last part because the things that will happen won’t make sense if parts one and two weren’t the way it was. I wished the part where Samantha was with the Bunnies was longer, but it dawned on me that we probably have been in that state all along.
I don’t view Max as gendered, even though it can be a whole discussion in itself and it was slightly brushed over on page 257. I see it more like, in a way, reflecting that part of fiction where writers put into writing the things they wish they could do as their own.
It is the type of book I would love to see as a film. Maybe it would even be better on-screen rather than on paper because we won’t succumb to Smackie’s annihilating brooding (pas much (she becomes less unbearable in part three!). But I can already imagine the visuals, this would be a banger if it gets picked up by the right filmmakers. Read this if you’re the type of person to say “I support women’s wrongs” ironically or unironically. Don’t read this if you expect this to be really scary. It’s rather disorienting, a wild ride on a skinny road next to a cliff than a walk through a haunted house in October.
I hope my friends read this, I love it. But if they don’t, I get it girl, it’s ridiculous!
The girl cult genre of it all is so interesting. I just have some mental notes on the writing style, how the words don’t flow seamlessly in my head at first so I’m not always pulled entirely into the story. It took some getting used to.
I see the similarities with Heathers and I read Samantha like how Veronica narrates, especially because I love both the movie and musical. But it is also so distinct as its own entity.
The build-up is worth it when you get to the last part because the things that will happen won’t make sense if parts one and two weren’t the way it was. I wished the part where Samantha was with the Bunnies was longer, but it dawned on me that we probably have been in that state all along.
I don’t view Max as gendered, even though it can be a whole discussion in itself and it was slightly brushed over on page 257. I see it more like, in a way, reflecting that part of fiction where writers put into writing the things they wish they could do as their own.
It is the type of book I would love to see as a film. Maybe it would even be better on-screen rather than on paper because we won’t succumb to Smackie’s annihilating brooding (pas much (she becomes less unbearable in part three!). But I can already imagine the visuals, this would be a banger if it gets picked up by the right filmmakers. Read this if you’re the type of person to say “I support women’s wrongs” ironically or unironically. Don’t read this if you expect this to be really scary. It’s rather disorienting, a wild ride on a skinny road next to a cliff than a walk through a haunted house in October.
I hope my friends read this, I love it. But if they don’t, I get it girl, it’s ridiculous!