I’m talking BIG “I’m nOt LikE otHeR giRLs!” energy here.

These are all concepts I can get behind, but sadly the execution here did nothing for me! In fact, all these themes seem to get forgotten amidst an overriding sense of nastiness in this book towards other women and characters. Overall, the story is trying to get at ideas about loneliness, about retreating into your own mind and fantasies rather than dealing with the real world and real people, and about the hurt of exclusion and feeling different.

But in any case it involves some dark magical elements that the Bunnies have found a way to tap into. No, literally, the writing and plot and what exactly is going on is so foggy that I had a hard time keeping it all straight (but more on that later). Yet she is also fascinated by them, so when the girls open an invitation for her to join them in some of their weekly traditions, Sam ends up ditching her best friend, Ava, to be drawn into a strange and foggy new world. These four women all seem to be operating on the same hivemind, and Sam hates them. They call each other Bunny and so, Sam calls them the Bunnies. The only other members of her cohort in this program are a clique of four women who possess all the stereotypical “girly girl” traits you can imagine, but each with a slightly different style. But let’s get on with the book!!īunny centers on a young woman named Samantha (Sam) who is in the final year of a highly selective writing MFA program. So in retrospect, that might have been a clue that I wasn’t going to enjoy this novel for a few reasons. Upon actually looking at it, however, I saw that it was written by someone I very much don’t care for. BIG OOF on this one! As I neared the end of this novel, I noticed a pull-quote on the cover that I originally didn’t pay attention to on account of being in an unappealing font to read (I’m weird about fonts, y’all, it’s part of my job after all).

Bunny the novel