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Bunny by Mona Awad (Review #231)


"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 seem to move and speak as 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 Bunnies' sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus "Workshop" where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision."

Review:
Holy Fucking Shit. 

You know what I was expecting? Witches. A bunch of mean girls, like Regina George and the Plastics bringing in some new blood to complete their little witchy group like in The Craft. It was absolutely not that at all. This was horror, this was a bunch of rich white girls playing with things they had no business playing with, in the guise of bettering their "work." Samantha Heather Mackey was to her core, melancholy. Sad and tortured and haunted. And when these girls appearing to her with such unlimited happiness it almost froths at their mouths, she can't help but want to be a part of it. 


This was so much better than I was anticipating. It was gore-y and disgusting, it was spine-tingling scary and deeply uncomfortable, t was heartbreaking and rage-inducing. I wanted to fall down the bunny-hole forever. UGH! What a spectacular read. There wasn't any twists or surprises I didn't see coming, but I do think that there were layers to this. Like a movie you have to watch a second time because you didn't catch all the hidden meanings the first time around. Exquisite. 


An excellent jump into horror, and I'm hungry for more! As always let me know your own thoughts and feels down below in the comments!
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