Book Review: "Bunny" by Mona Awad

Okay so this was screams " Raise your hand if you feel personally victimized by predominately white  liberal universities" in a way that makes it extremely  inauthentic. The depiction of life on campus is simply so over the top and almost mean spirited and hokey. Interacting with these types and going to a university I would never regret attending I totally get it. However, this is like holding a megaphone and yelling "I suffered and I need everyone to know how bad it is" without a solution or nuance. A little less chracter and more caricature if you get what I'm saying It was trying a little too hard, but it's passable.   the previous book I read i we were villians I think does it better and more authentically,

Released very recently this novevl has strong themes of lonliness, grief, and coping which seems lke the popular thing to discuss. Honestly not enough people are reckoning with it. As a person who thinks about everything everywhere all at once, I don't need the onslaught of grief centered novels to remind me that this is a thing.

I did not enjoy how it was written narratively. This might be preference and it might also relate to the author trying too hard. It sort of adds to the absurdity of the text. However, it would have be fine if not better, if it was not written the way it was written.

What I did enjoy and was incredibly baffled by was the weirdness, grotestqueness of it all.  Awad is not a afraid to be mean, negative, visceral. It is certainly something that is not often afforded to women and femmes. In addition to that, the absuridity and dark whimsy of this makes you want to read it or atleast certain passages and chapters once more to see if you truly understood what is and was happening. It is a a wonderful conversation starter and good for book clubs who was to go deep where many are afraid to go.

I'd say a 3.6/5