Simply can’t give this one a star rating. Review contains spoilers – you have been warned!
What did I just read…
This was a book club read for me, and I am still not sure if I loved it or hated it. It was a messed up read and confess to being a little worried about the author’s state of mind!
I don’t usually bring spoilers into my reviews but it really isn’t possible to review this book without a few – discussing this in book club was interesting as there were some really conflicting views on what happened, such as was the whole thing a drug induced haze and Samantha was in a psych ward. Was it all ‘real’ in a witch crafty sort of way. Was anyone other that Samantha real? Were the Bunnies all mental patients with Samantha. Were the Bunnies ever glamorous or were they always the flawed versions of themselves but Samantha couldn’t see it as she admired them so much. Was Jonah real. Was Ava real. Was the cool guy the stag, did any rabbits even explode?
WHY CAN’T THEY MAKE HANDS?!
Also, what were the messages from the book – was it all about fitting in, about just being real and being yourself, acceptance, toxic friendships? I don’t know. I do know that 90% of book club hated it, and while I didn’t hate it I am not convinced I fully got all of it’s nuances and it is a book that will play on my mind.
Blurb: 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.
Read and Rated 