Bunny by Mona Awad *Spoilers*

[Anonymous]

This book is so popular on TikTok and I do not get it.

If you read it, did you like it? What did you like about it?

To me, it was obvious very early on that Ava at least was not a real person. She kept appearing and disappearing in a way that no real person could do. Then the word Schizophrenia started being dropped, probably at about a third of the way through, and that made sense as an explanation for what was going on with Samantha.

But then there’s still 2/3 of the book to go in which we have to read about this girl’s tedious delusions! And since we know she’s schizophrenic and unmedicated, we also know we can’t take anything she describes seriously. I just kept thinking, what is the point of this??? Especially with all the Bunny stuff, which just turned out to be the for her novel. Ava, Max, and Jonah were all delusions.

From reviews though, it seems like a lot of people take the plot literally, think it’s an horror story, and missed the fact that Samantha is schizophrenic? How?

What are your thoughts?

[Anonymous]

I found it very entertaining. It's a classic unreliable narrator story. I did and didn’t believe anything she said. Her delusions were pretty obvious but not so tedious to me. I thought they were funny and great satire of post-grad academia.