April 2026

Bunny - Mona Awad, 2019

This is the second novel by Montreal’s Mona Awad, a sequel called We Love You, Bunny came out last September. The film rights were picked up by Bad Robot Productions (JJ Abrams) in 2023 and AMC got the television rights but neither have yet to hit the screen.

Despite this being the hottest BookTok pick when it came out and being on pretty much every “best of” list I still haven’t read it. I’m often years behind on the trends when it comes to my TBR list. And yet I did have a bit of a wait at the library to get this one in and will not be able to renew it because more people are waiting for me to be done.

I try to keep my reading fairly spoiler free by limiting myself to the back cover. I have to say I’m a sucker for anything set in a school environment and was a big fan of Heathers and Do Revenge so I’m hoping this will scratch the preppy mean girl itch.

Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more different from the other members of her master's program at New England's elite Warren University. A self-conscious scholarship student who prefers the company of her imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort—a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny," and are often found entangled in a group hug so tight it seems their bodies might become permanently fused.

But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' exclusive monthly "Smut Salon," and finds herself drawn as if by magic to their front door—ditching her only friend, Ava, an audacious art school dropout, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into Bunny world, and starts to take part in the off-campus "Workshop" where they devise their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur, and her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies are brought into deadly collision.