History Literature / Bunny

''Bunny'' is a fairly trope-heavy 2019 [[YoungAdultLiterature young adult novel]] by Mona Awad. The novel is a ''extremely'' [[BlackComedy dark, yet absurdly humorous]] deconstruction of the "outsider joins girl posse" plot, from films like ''Film/{{Heathers}}'' and ''Film/MeanGirls'', but it's essentially a horror story a la ''Film/JennifersBody'' for...''[[DoNotSpoilThisEnding reasons you will see as you read]]''.

* BlackComedy: It’s clearly inspired by ''Film/Heathers'', so why shouldn’t it be? Some situations are hard not to laugh at in this book, and part of it is through Awad's writing style.

* BelligerentSexualTension: Samantha and Jonah, [[spoiler:[[TheyDo until the end]]]].

* AmbiguousDisorder: Samantha has clear signs of schizophrenia. Lampshaded when a clearly schizophrenic woman who sits next to her on the bus reads a schizophrenia pamphlet out loud, and Samantha wonders if she has it herself.

* AnAxToGrind: The Bunnies make use of it when their Hybrids are "ugly" or defective, [[spoiler:also Max, to the point of having one tattooed on his neck.]]

* TheMagnificentDeer: Samantha encounters a stag in front of The Duchess' house right before going in for a meeting, and is mystified by it, seeing it as a magical, majestic moment. [[spoiler: When she tries making a Hybrid, it turns out she accidentally uses that stag instead of the bunny provided by her group, and it becomes Max.]]

** The Bunnies tell Samantha that seeing Hybrid heads explode was just what she ''thought'' she saw, [[spoiler:as it turns out, the Hybrids are not real.]]

* MsImagination: Samantha.
* TheNicknamer: Samantha.

%% * RichBitch: All of the Bunnies, particularly Eleanor and Cupcake.
%% * RiotGrrrl: Victoria.

%% * SpoiledBrat: All of the Bunnies, but especially Eleanor.

** What exactly [[NoodleIncident Samantha did in the Lion's apartment that made him ignore her.]] After a party they both attended, they [[spoiler:got drunk and had their typical conversations, but it was different - [[BrokenBird she had a mental breakdown]]. She began crying about her missing family, her loneliness, how much she hated the Bunnies, how much they hated her, and her writer's block. She poured her heart out to him, but he didn’t say or do anything – he just "kept drinking and watching. Didn’t speak and didn’t touch.” Whenever she talked or wrote about that night, she would “fill [her story] with something different...Something happens in that silence. [[FalseRapeAccusation Something like sex. An insinuation of violence.]]” She lives her life through writing, and she wanted this story to have a different ending than the one it had – a relationship, even if it was just developing her friendship with him from before, and instead everything after that night became awkward, because he was avoiding her since then.]]

* AxCrazy: The Bunnies when their Hybrids are "ugly." [[spoiler:Also Max.]]

* BlackComedy: It’s clearly inspired by Film/Heathers, so why shouldn’t it be? Some situations are hard not to laugh at in this book, and part of it is through Awad's writing style.
* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler: Although they’re only physically cute, Max does this to the Bunnies by pretending to be different idealized men to each of them and distancing them from each other.]]

* [[Foreshadowing]]: There's a lot of it.

* RichBitch: All of the Bunnies, particularly Eleanor and Cupcake.
* RiotGrrrl: Victoria.

* SpoiledBrat: All of the Bunnies, but especially Eleanor.
** SpoiledSweet: Caroline and Kira, who seem to genuinely like Samantha for a while. Inverted in the end, however.

Samantha Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Warren University]]. A scholarship student who prefers [[MsImagination the company of her dark imagination]] to [[IntelligenceEqualsIsolation that of most people]], she is utterly repelled by the rest of her cohort,[[GirlPosse a clique of obnoxious rich girls]] who call each other "Bunny," and seem to move and speak as one. They include [[ThePollyanna the optimistic]] Caroline, the PerkyGoth Kira, the [[AggressiveSubmissive sex-minded ex-punk]] Victoria, and their [[AlphaBitch extremely arrogant yet influential leader]] Eleanor.

* InTheStyleOf: Every character has a distinct writing and appearance style echoing a famous "dead" style or genre.

** Caroline: 20th century literature/film
** Vignette: Flash fiction and punk

* BullyHunter: Max thinks that he’s one because of what Samantha made him think when she created him. While, yes, they are horrible people, his “performance piece” is [[spoiler: literal torture]].

* NotThatKindOfDoctor: Fosco jokes about it, having a PhD in English.

''Bunny'' is a fairly trope-heavy 2019 [[YoungAdultLiterature young adult novel]] by Mona Awad. The novel is a ''extremely'' [[BlackComedy dark, yet absurdly humorous]] deconstruction of the "outsider joins girl posse" plot, from films like ''[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Heathers Heathers]]'' and ''Film/MeanGirls'', but it's essentially a horror story a la ''Film/JennifersBody'' for...''[[DoNotSpoilThisEnding reasons you will see as you read]]''.

''Bunny'' is a fairly trope-heavy 2019 [[YoungAdultLiterature young adult novel]] by Mona Awad. The novel is a ''extremely'' [[BlackComedy dark, yet absurdly humorous]] deconstruction of the "outsider joins girl posse" plot, from films like ''Film/Heathers'' and ''Film/MeanGirls'', but it's essentially a horror story a la ''Film/JennifersBody'' for...''[[DoNotSpoilThisEnding reasons you will see as you read]]''.

* NotThatKindOfDoctor: Fosco jokes about it.

** Ursula, Samantha's writing professor, is nicknamed "Fosco" by Samantha (a reference to the villain in Collins' Literature/TheWomanInWhite, because she reminds Samantha of "someone hiding maidens in their basement"), and "Kare-Kare" by the Bunnies because they see her as a caring mother figure.

* TheReveal: Several:

** Ava's origin, revealed when Max [[spoiler:brings a dead swan into Samantha's house.]] It turns out that as a result of the night in the Lion's apartment, [[spoiler: Samantha imagined the campus swan jumping out of the lake and becoming a young woman - who reminds Samantha of an idealized version of herself, and likes all the things she likes.]]
* RichBitch: All of the Bunnies.

* Foreshadowing: There's a lot of it.

** When Samantha first sees Max, she notices he smells like an animal, [[spoiler:the way all the Hybrids do, as he is a Hybrid.]]

** ManipulativeBastard: [[Max, who manages to psychologically – and later physically – torment the Bunnies because of Samantha’s feelings towards them.]]

''Bunny'' is a fairly trope-heavy 2019 [[YoungAdultLiterature young adult novel]] by Mona Awad. The novel is a ''extremely'' [[BlackComedy dark, yet absurdly humorous]] [[Deconstruction deconstruction]] of the "outsider joins girl posse" plot, from films like Film/Heathers and Film/MeanGirls, but it's essentially a horror story a la Film/JennifersBody for...''[[DoNotSpoilThisEnding reasons you will see as you read]]''.

** SpoiledRotten: Eleanor.

** Ursula, Samantha's writing professor, is nicknamed "Fosco" by Samantha (a reference to the villain in Collins' Literature/TheWomanInWhite, because she reminds Samantha of "someone hiding maidens in their basement"), and "KareKare" by the Bunnies because they see her as a mother figure.

** Some of [[AuthorAvatar Awad's favorite musical artists]] are referenced throughout as some of Samantha's favorites, such as Music/DavidBowie (who Ava is said to look like), Music/NewOrder, and Music/TheCramps.

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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Samantha has nicknames for everyone.

** Kira is called "Creepy Doll" because she
** Victoria is called "Vignette" because of her writing style.

** Ursula, Samantha's professor, is nicknamed "Fosco" by Samantha (a reference to ),

* AggressiveSubmissive: Victoria, a former QuincyPunk and rebel who became a Bunny during her first year at Warren.

* BelligerentSexualTension: Samantha and Jonah, [[TheyDo until the end]].

Samantha Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed]] Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers [[MsImagination the company of her dark imagination]] to [[IntelligenceEqualsIsolation that of most people]], she is utterly repelled by the rest of her cohort,[[GirlPosse a clique of obnoxious rich girls]] who call each other "Bunny," and seem to move and speak as one. They include [[ThePollyanna the optimistic]] Caroline, the [[PerkyGoth]] Kira, the [[AggressiveSubmissive sex-minded ex-punk]] Victoria, and their [[AlphaBitch arrogant leader]] Eleanor.

Everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled "Smut Salon," and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door - ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies' sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus "Workshop" where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision.

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