Name: We Love You, Bunny
Rating: 3.145833333333333 (12 reviews)

Mona Awad

We Love You, Bunny 

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Don't be afraid, Mother had laughed when she said goodbye earlier. It's only an art degree, for god's sake, Button. Just writing stories, isn't it?

Yes, Mother, I'd said not wanting to get into it. That it was my actual fucking soul in these stories.

I stared at Ursula. Look at me, I thought, I'm the one. And that is very important to remember, Bunny. That at this point I still had my own singular mind. 

Not like me, with my dyed blonde hair and my tight smile that twitched with so many disorders. Smiling primly beside my slutty mother, who thought I was the slutty one even as she mocked me for being prim. 

That first fall something was happening to me, Bunny, to my body and mind and soul. It was all becoming less solid or something. I was becoming less solid. I looked over at Coraline and sometimes I didn't know where she ended and I began. 

We found ourselves walking the streets back to my place. Not talking. All of us holding hands, step by step. If people were in our way, well they moved. Walked around us like we were one very wide body with many legs and arms. It was like we were one body, Bunny. Like three more hearts were beating inside me. Three more minds had melded to my own. I saw the sun with eight eyes as it sank bloodily before us. 

"He saw my bloody pocket!" she chimed in. "He saw it and he fucking smiled."

"What hurts one of us, hurts all of us, after all."

A Most Anticipated Book for Goodreads, The Millions, BookPage, and Book Riot The highly anticipated follow up to the viral sensation Bunny, a brilliantly written, laugh-out-loud funny, dark, and delirious novel set in the Bunny-verse—a world that Margaret Atwood declared “soooo genius.” In the cult classic novel Bunny, Samantha Heather Mackey, a lonely outsider student at a highly selective MFA program in New England, was first ostracized and then seduced by a clique of creepy-sweet rich girls who call themselves “Bunny.” An invitation to the Bunnies’ Smut Salon leads Samantha down a dark rabbit hole (pun intended) into the violently surreal world of their off-campus workshops where monstrous creations are conjured with deadly and wondrous consequences. When We Love You, Bunny opens, Sam has just published her first novel to critical acclaim. But at a New England stop on her book tour, her one-time frenemies, furious at the way they’ve been portrayed, kidnap her. Now a captive audience, it’s her (and our) turn to hear the Bunnies’ side of the story. One by one, they take turns holding the axe, and recount the birth throes of their unholy alliance, their discovery of their unusual creative powers—and the phantasmagoric adventure of conjuring their first creation. With a bound and gagged Sam, we embark on a wickedly intoxicating journey into the heart of dark academia: a fairy tale slasher that explores the wonder and horror of creation itself. Not to mention the transformative powers of love and friendship, Bunny. Frankenstein by way of Heathers, We Love You, Bunny is both a prequel and a sequel, and an unabashedly wild and totally complete stand-alone novel. Open your hearts, Bunny, to another dazzlingly original and darkly hilarious romp in the Bunny-verse from the queen of the fever-dream, Mona Awad.

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We Love You, Bunny

Yulez

After reading and loving Bunny, I was glad to hear that we were getting more of the bunnies but had no idea what to expect. Where Bunny served as an introduction to this fever-dream of a story, <i>We Love You, Bunny</i> delves deeper into the psyche of our cast and crew. Told from the bunnies' point of view, we receive a firsthand retelling and more background on how the bunnies came to be. I would recommend this to anyone who loved Bunny and just wanted to dive deeper and get some questions answered.

 lovers might dislike this prequel/sequel (presequel?), i really do. oh but i had a fucking blast. i loved this more than 

 if only because samantha was a deeply irritating protagonist for me whereas the bunnies are so deliciously deranged, & aerius was delightful. awad's last novel, 

, fell very flat for me, & i kept my hopes low for 

, but i think this is by far her best writing. is the book a little long for what it is? sure. but i was gripped regardless. it was funny & sharp & so clever in its critique of the academy & of students. the section with the poets had me in stitches at times. i just really loved seeing this side of the cult of academia, which felt absent in the original because samantha was on the fringe of these groups (of course there's still value in that perspective of a desperate lonely student). i did enjoy 

 for what it was but this book gives me the story i think i always expected (and wanted!) when i picked up the first instalment.

 is the ambiguity of it. a lot of those open-ended questions and spaces for interpretation disappear with the events of 

. awad expands the lore and fills in a lot of gaps quite concretely, which may cause friction for people who loved the original 

for its unreal, uncertain equality. but as someone who found 

 just fine, and thought the fantasy elements felt strained at times, i like the explanations awad provides here. they ground the loose threads in the original that bothered me and develop more of what i wanted to see — especially the plot with the older writers. it's very important to me too see professors be just as unhinged as their students. no one who stays in academia is right in the head. though some reveals conflict with my preferred reading of samantha as suffering from schizophrenia, i don't mind too much. but it's understandable why diehard 

 skews and recontextualises the original. i get it. still, what a riot of a story. i truly loved it, bunny. 

rory

okay. i understand why a lot of bunny lovers might dislike this prequel/sequel (presequel?), i really do. oh but i had a fucking blast. i loved this more than bunny if only because samantha was a deeply irritating protagonist for me whereas the bunnies are so deliciously deranged, & aerius was delightful. awad's last novel, rouge, fell very flat for me, & i kept my hopes low for we love you, bunny, but i think this is by far her best writing. is the book a little long for what it is? sure. but i was gripped regardless. it was funny & sharp & so clever in its critique of the academy & of students. the section with the poets had me in stitches at times. i just really loved seeing this side of the cult of academia, which felt absent in the original because samantha was on the fringe of these groups (of course there's still value in that perspective of a desperate lonely student). i did enjoy bunny for what it was but this book gives me the story i think i always expected (and wanted!) when i picked up the first instalment.

i think what people love about bunny is the ambiguity of it. a lot of those open-ended questions and spaces for interpretation disappear with the events of we love you, bunny. awad expands the lore and fills in a lot of gaps quite concretely, which may cause friction for people who loved the original bunny for its unreal, uncertain equality. but as someone who found bunny just fine, and thought the fantasy elements felt strained at times, i like the explanations awad provides here. they ground the loose threads in the original that bothered me and develop more of what i wanted to see — especially the plot with the older writers. it's very important to me too see professors be just as unhinged as their students. no one who stays in academia is right in the head. though some reveals conflict with my preferred reading of samantha as suffering from schizophrenia, i don't mind too much. but it's understandable why diehard bunny fans might take issue with how we love you, bunny skews and recontextualises the original. i get it. still, what a riot of a story. i truly loved it, bunny. 

I loved bunny so much I am saddened by my reading experience with this book. I never want to think of this book ever again 

Claire Maguet

kind of bummed with this book, although hearing front the creature genuinely was great and gave a big vibe of Frankenstein which was exciting. Even with that the book dragged on and on 

Cici Pearson

Elizabeth Scott

Emiley Jones

The highly-anticipated follow up to the viral sensation Bunny, a brilliantly written, laugh-out-loud funny, dark and delirious novel set in the Bunny-verse – a world that Margaret Atwood declared ‘soooo genius’. In the cult classic novel Bunny, Samantha Heather Mackey, a lonely outsider student at a highly selective MFA program in New England, was first ostracised and then seduced by a clique of her saccharine sweet, rich girl cohort (who call one another ‘Bunny’). An invitation to the Bunnies’ Smut Salon leads Samantha down a dark rabbit hole (pun intended) into the violently surreal world of their off-campus Workshops where monstrous creations are conjured with wondrous yet deadly consequences. When We Love You, Bunny opens, Sam has just published her first novel to critical acclaim. But at a New England stop on her book tour, her one-time frenemies, furious at the way they’ve been portrayed, kidnap her. Now a captive audience, it’s her (and our) turn to hear the Bunnies’ side of the story. One by one, they take turns holding the axe, and recount the birth throes of their unholy alliance, their discovery of their unusual creative powers — and the phantasmagoric adventure of conjuring their first creation. With a bound and gagged Sam, we embark on a wickedly intoxicating journey into the heart of dark academia: a fairy tale slasher that explores the wonder and horror of creation itself. Not to mention the transformative powers of love and friendship, Bunny. Frankenstein by way of Heathers, We Love You, Bunny is a prequel and a sequel, and an unabashedly wild and totally complete standalone novel. Open your hearts, Bunny, to a dazzlingly original and darkly hilarious romp in the Bunny-verse from the queen of the fever dream, Mona Awad.

We Love You, Bunny

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