Brief Book Review -- Bunny by Mona Awad

Cover Image courtesy of Penguin Books

First, cudos to Mona Awad for stepping up to the plate and challenging the tech industry over using her material to train AI to write things. I'm in full support of this author's challenge. Now, about the novel Bunny...

This is the second time I'm writing this review because the first one didn't post at B&N --thanks, nook app. I "love" starting over.

But hey, I did like this book. It's confusing as heck because of the trippy things that happen--the main character Smackie, an English grad student with a huge inferiority complex, is also a highly unreliable narrator. But her imagination kicks in big time as she bleeds out her tale of woe while trying to fit in with the rich girls on campus, who reach out to include her after several semesters of treating her like an other.

And she is an other--the horror elements are a fantastic and bizarre flip to a Stepford Wives ideal, but the love story, the real love story that makes Samantha the "other", is the reason to keep reading. You could argue that there are similarities to plenty of stories out there, such as Mean Girls or Heathers (movies are stories too), or the obvious nods to Alice in her Wonderland. But the telling of this bunny horror fairytale is weird and unique and original in a good way, too.

Check it out horror fans. You can find Bunny pretty much wherever books are sold, but you should also check it out at  Bookshop.org if you want to support indie bookstores. And who doesn't love an indie bookstore?