I’ve just finished “We love you, bunny” by Mona Awad and I don’t really know what to think. It’s categorized as a horror – thriller novel and have to say it’s pretty gory and weird. This book was recommended on TikTok by Noa.

“Because you simply can’t sit back and allow your best friend to date an animal man of your own creation and say nothing. You can’t. And say nothing? That would be just wrong, on so many levels.”

In this book we follow Samantha who is in her last year at Warren, a university that specializes in art. It’s one of those high-end places where only rich people go, but Samantha came in another way; through a scholarship when a teacher had a liking for the thesis she entered.

Samantha and her best friend Ava are kind of Goth like in clothing – All black. With Samantha’s dorm room being some kind of hell hole, Ava asked her to live with her, which she does; because everything is better than living in that disgusting place. This year workshop will consist of 6 students, all female whereas five of them belong in some kind of clique calling themselves the bunnies whereas Samantha sees them as Bonobos.

Ava isn’t a student at Warren, she dropped out and even though Samantha hates the bunnies she wanted to belong somewhere. Ava isn’t always around so when Samantha gets an invite to one of the bunny’s events, she goes. But in going, she kind of lost touch with Ava. It’s Smut Saloon, the smuttier your story the better. The bunny’s invite her again and again and eventually Samantha is brainwashed in being one of them. Bunny’s, actual bunnies are following her around, watching her which is weird.

When the bunnies explain their version of workshop and the fact that they are inventing some kind of hybrid. Not a man perse, let’s just call him a darling. A darling made from a bunny; you can’t peek under their gloves and you can’t talk about wanting to do some smutty things because they’ll cry, shriek, scream or bite when you do so. Oh, and you can’t ask them to tell something about themselves.

When it’s Samantha’s time in making a darling, she fails. Or at least they think she did. Within a couple of months, this boy leads her back home, this boy that appeared after Samantha’s attempt at making said darling. Is this her doing? Finding out that the boy, called Max is actually dating Ava and them one morning finding out that this boy is also ‘dating’ al of the bunnies; Samantha can’t be sure anymore. What is Max’ endgame? And should she tell Ava the truth?

This story was so weird, I don’t even know how to properly review this. With exploding darlings, exploding bunnies, laced alcoholic drinks and so many weird sh-t happening.

I’m giving this book a ⭐⭐⭐ star rating.