One thing I adored about this book was the writing, which was vivid and evocative. This was a really small but highly effective detail in conveying her personality shifts throughout the novel. She has nicknames for everyone in her life, and these change as she develops new and different relationships, whether with them or with others. She is an incredibly unreliable narrator, and by the end you’re not sure whether you ever should have believed anything she said or not. Though it’s narrated by her, I didn’t always understand her own thought processes, which is fascinating to read. However, that is very much where our similarities end! I won’t spoil what happened in the book with Samantha, but she turned into a very different character. I kind of understand her struggles with working alone and how it can feel like you’re going down a rabbit hole. We are also working on our dissertations from home, and it’s very self-study focussed. The setting is a familiar playing ground for me: Samantha is on an MFA with only four others, and I am currently on an MA with 11 others. It is incredibly hard to review this book without spoiling too much of the plot, but I shall do my best. Even by the end of the book, I’m not entirely sure what happened. That is a strange combination, but I’m telling you, that’s exactly what it is. This book is like a female Fight Club on acid mixed with Mean Girls at university. When you get into this book, know this: you will spend half of it trying to decipher what exactly is going on. As Samantha is dragged deeper into their sanctimonious world, the edges of fantasy and reality begin to blur, and the Bunnies push her to the edge.īunny is easily the strangest book I have ever read.
Then Samantha receives an invitation to their “smut salon”. She is ostracised by the rest of her all-female cohort, a group of women who call one another “Bunny” and hug for too long. Samantha is not the typical student you would on the famous Warren Creative Writing MFA, especially as a scholarship student.
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