7/5/2023 0 Comments Bunny awad reviewSince the main cast in Bunny is part of a creative writing MFA program… we were constantly reminded of how inane criticism can be. Writing about writing is never an easy endeavour since there is the high risk that you will remind your readers that they are indeed ‘reading’ a fictitious work. The ‘satirical horror’ I was hoping to encounter in Bunny was closer to the ‘comedic horror’ in the Scary Movie franchise… If you are hoping for some sort of absurdist black comedy à la Yorgos Lanthimos, think again. If you are picking up Bunny thinking that it is some sort of intriguing campus novel, you should reconsider given that this book is the anthesis to The Secret History. And then, there are books like Bunny whose weirdness largely rests on overusing the word bunny(which appears approximately 350 times, one time too many).Īn intentionally silly story that owes more to Scream Queens and The Babysitter then Heathers or Mean Girls. There are those bizarre and experimental books that manage to be entertaining, transgressive, and on occasion even thought-provoking.
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