We Love You, Bunny

A Novel

By: Mona Awad

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, and LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER
A finalist for the 2025 Giller Prize

Named a Must-Read Pick by The New York Times, Oprah Daily, People, Associated Press, Marie Claire, Bustle, The Boston Globe, Goodreads, Women’s Wear Daily, and more

“Dark academia clan, rise up! We Love You, Bunny feels like Han Kang’s The Vegetarian meets…Heathers.” —People

The highly anticipated follow up to the viral sensation Bunny, a brilliantly written, laugh-out-loud funny, dark, and delirious novel set in the Bunny-verse—a world that Margaret Atwood declared “soooo genius.”

In the cult classic novel Bunny, Samantha Heather Mackey, a lonely outsider student at a highly selective MFA program in New England, was first ostracized and then seduced by a clique of creepy-sweet rich girls who call themselves “Bunny.” An invitation to the Bunnies’ Smut Salon leads Samantha down a dark rabbit hole (pun intended) into the violently surreal world of their off-campus workshops where monstrous creations are conjured with deadly and wondrous consequences.

When We Love You, Bunny opens, Sam has just published her first novel to critical acclaim. But at a New England stop on her book tour, her one-time frenemies, furious at the way they’ve been portrayed, kidnap her. Now a captive audience, it’s her (and our) turn to hear the Bunnies’ side of the story. One by one, they take turns holding the axe, and recount the birth throes of their unholy alliance, their discovery of their unusual creative powers—and the phantasmagoric adventure of conjuring their first creation. With a bound and gagged Sam, we embark on a wickedly intoxicating journey into the heart of dark academia: a fairy tale slasher that explores the wonder and horror of creation itself. Not to mention the transformative powers of love and friendship, Bunny.

Frankenstein by way of Heathers, We Love You, Bunny is both a prequel and a sequel, and an unabashedly wild and totally complete stand-alone novel. Open your hearts, Bunny, to another dazzlingly original and darkly hilarious romp in the Bunny-verse from the queen of the fever-dream, Mona Awad.

Critic reviews

"As Mona Awad returns to the dark academia of her cult classic, BUNNY, Sophie Amoss artfully handles the challenging narration. The plot unfolds mostly through monologue and dialogue. Amoss gives specific tones and styles to “the Bunnies,” the quartet of entitled MFA students who are holding fellow former grad student Samantha captive because of the way she portrayed them in her first published novel. From chirpy to authoritarian, Amoss captures the quirky, sociopathic Bunnies. Amoss also performs the slightly British accent of Aerius, the bunny-into-man creation of their hive mind whose self-narrated story provides parts of the plot. By turns charming and vulnerable, menacing and irrational, Aerius is kept in the attic by the Bunnies. This literary horror novel is fun and funny."

Felt like a behind the scenes I guess prequel

I was hoping this was a sequel, I still love the characters so it was fun listening to their side of the story instead of Sam’s. I really loved the character aerius he was so cute and made me laugh a few times. I felt like it dragged a bit but it was fun smiley face :)

Witty, dark, and absolutely hilarious

I cannot say how much I adored this series. I was hesitant at first when I saw it but decided ‘why not’, and I’m so glad I did!

YESSS

I wasn’t sure how they could follow the novel of bunny but they did!
The bunny’s writing with “smiley face” and “frowns face” was a little annoying to hear and some voices annoying but great overall

Unexpected prequel/sequel

Well. That was different. We Love You, Bunny is a good book. It just wasn’t the book I expected. And that’s okay. Obviously. I had imagined returning to the David Lynchian world of bitchy bunnies and pink berry drinks. This book brings me to a fairy tale world. Academia and the narrative arts remain constant however, still fraught with the same ills one might see outside of these novels. Plus murder perhaps.

The best part of We Love You, Bunny for me is Mona Awad’s writing. She is so smart, so creative. Her word choices like Manny Scripts and Poet Trees are hilarious. So is her use of emojis. Smiley Face.

I wonder if I would have enjoyed these novels as much without Sophie Amoss’s narration. I suspect that I wouldn’t.

If you loved Bunny, come to this book open to freshness. As much as it is thematically the same, it is its own separate creation.

She did it again.

This might be even better than the original. I loved it. I’m sad I finished it so soon, but I couldn’t help it.