Bunny

A Novel

By: Mona Awad

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Enter the Bunnyverse with the “wild, audacious . . . unforgettable” (Los Angeles Times) #DarkAcademia novel that started it all – the precursor to We Love You, Bunny

“[A] cult classic.” —People

“[A] viral sensation.” —USA Today

“O Bunny you are sooo genius!” —Margaret Atwood

“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.

The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination.


Named a Best Book of the year by TIME, Vogue, Electric Literature, and The New York Public Library

Not my thing…

This is the first written review I’ve ever done on Audible but have listened to almost 2 dozen books.

The performance was great. The author is clearly a great writer but the storyline just didn’t agree with me at all. Based on other reviews I kept going chapter after chapter but couldn’t wait for it to end. Normally I stop reading/listening if I don’t like a book but I’d heard do much about this one that I forged ahead. Regretting the time I wasted on it.

Surprisingly Excellent!

This book was a gift so I had no idea what to expect! With the first chapter, however, I was so drawn into the characters and story that I was too intrigued to stop! Excellent book!

Glad I stuck with it

I wasn’t sure I was going to like this through maybe the first half of the book and I think that comes down to it being marketed as horror. I’m a horror junkie and this just wasn’t horrifying enough for me. As I got farther along it became clear that this is more of a dark comedy/satire and I began to appreciate it more.

2 stars? 4 stars?

I don't know how I feel about this book. I'm confused. I don't get it. I'm still processing. Does it deserve 2 stars or 5 stars? All I know is I really enjoyed the ride from beginning to end. And I loved the narration. The description of Jennifer's Body meets A Secret History is dead on. I think fans of David Lynch may also really like this. But If you don't like weird, skip it. If you aren't into some magical realism, definitely skip it. If you're open to being taken on a crazy journey...definitely spend a credit. Now I want to know if the authors other books are this f-ing weird.

Aaaaaa

Was this metaphorical or for real? I didn't understand, I was lost 90% of the time, wtf