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“Bunny�� by Mona Awad started off really interesting and then goes into some very weird uncharted waters. I see this is considered a horror novel but it has elements of fantasy that ends up just making things really confusing when events and situations start happening.

I personally didn’t mind it as it started to make me really engaged and excited to see where things were going. The problem is I started to notice that things started to get a bit boring with way too much dialogue that is repeated and not properly explained. I think if Awad spent more time explaining this whole bunny angle and putting a better horror twist on it, things could have gotten better as the novel progressed.

Unfortunately, the buildup to the ending felt really flat. I was expecting so much more and even in my head came up with a few scenarios that could have really turned this into a blockbuster of a novel. It started out really creepy, lost some momentum, picked up a bit, lost more momentum, got super interesting/weird, then lost even more momentum, and then the ending came and it was extremely lame. I literally had at least two scenarios for the ending that was significantly better than what ultimately ended up happening. I was left with a “THAT’S IT?!!?!?�� moment once I finished and I hated it.

I felt the main protagonist, Samantha, was mostly a whiner from start to finish and the moments she could have redeemed herself never came. Every character with the exception of Ava and Max was uninteresting. I felt all the different “bunnies�� made things even more confusing as they have nicknames, then real names, then they become interchanged so you start to forget who is who and just keep reading to see what happens because they’re too generic. Way too many pages dedicated to dialogue that didn’t really add anything when it mattered most and felt like it was rambling most of the time.

I give “Bunny�� by Mona Awad a 2/5 as her writing style is great but things could have been scarier and fleshed out more to the point where this could have been a better horror novel. I didn’t even feel this was even a real horror novel and felt more like a young adult novel with a weird dark fantasy twist. The ending didn’t deliver as I thought it was and it’s a shame, I enjoyed reading this to a degree due to the curiosity of what the hell was going on but it went downhill quickly for me at around 70% on. Overall, I ended up being pretty disappointed with this one and am looking forward to my next read.