If you're like me and laugh at gore in horror movies, you'll like the book Bunny by Mona Awad. Written in 2019, and only Awad's second book, it won many awards including GoodReads Choice Award for Best Horror, The Ladies of Horror Fiction Best Novel Award, and was named a Best Book of 2019 by the New York Public Library. Little did I know she teaches at Syracuse University, just a hop (bunny humor), skip, and jump from where I live.
I went to read it blind, just knowing that it was about a group of girls, but it's more than that. It's so relatable if you've ever felt like a goth outsider (check), have a constant internal dialog (check), and overthink things (check).
Without giving too much away, it's about a grad student that falls into a saccharine sweet clique of girls that are absolutely as cultish as them seem. This book is a drug and alcohol induced trip that combines The Craft and Frankenstein into a gory story with 1980s summer movie vibes with rich kids in mansions and a nicely wrapped-up graduation ending. I couldn't put it down and wanted to know what happened next. If you like bunnies, be warned, there's a lot of bunny killing in the book. (Duh.) Despite this, I highly recommend it. I should mention it's also currently in film production!
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