Book Review — We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad

Genre: Literary Fiction
Published by: Marysue Rucci Books
Publish date: September 23, 2025
Number of pages: 496
Author’s website: https://monaawadauthor.com/
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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.

Rating: 3/5

Described as Frankenstein by way of Heathers, “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.”

Mona Awad really said ‘you thought Bunny was weird? let’s go further down the rabbit hole.”.

𝙒𝙚 𝙇𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙔𝙤𝙪, 𝘽𝙪𝙣𝙣𝙮 takes place after the first book and centers around the “bunnies” giving their perspective on “what really happened” during the events of book one. Plus, a special perspective from a new-to-us character who is soooo babygirl. I started this book in May and finished it in July. I loved Bunny, but the sequel (prequel?) tried to do too many things. If Awad, was trying to outdo the bizarreness of Bunny, she certainly succeeded and that’s no small feat! It lost me many times from the switching viewpoints, which made me put it down for long periods of time. I do love that this one expands on the notion that Sam is an unreliable narrator that was explored in the first book.

Do I think this was too long and at points confusing? Yes. Did I still have a fun time reading this and was happy to be back in this delightfully absurd world? Absolutely.

I definitely recommend reading (or re-reading) 𝘽𝙪𝙣𝙣𝙮 first to understand 𝙒𝙚 𝙇𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙔𝙤𝙪, 𝘽𝙪𝙣𝙣𝙮 and prepare for several laugh out loud moments.

Have you read this book? What are your thoughts? I’d love to know!