Samantha is an outsider in the fiction department at Warren University, it’s overrun by Bunnies. The Bunnies are rich and feminine, they are childlike they fawn over each other at every moment and for every major and minor accomplishment. Samantha is not a Bunny, shes a loner her Moms dead, her dads gone and her only real friend is Ava.

When out of the blue the Bunnies (nicknamed by Samantha Duchess, CupCake, Vignette and Creepy Doll) invite Samantha to their Smut Salon she has to go just once, and from there Samantha begins to fall into the Bunnies lifestyle. The Workshops make the Smut Salons look tame, its experimental, its ‘subverting the concept of genre’ its all about ‘The Body’.

As Samantha is pulled deep and deeper into the Bunnies pink, miniature, glitter covered world, the boundaries between imagination and reality begin to blur and Samantha has to figure out who her real friends are.

This is one of those books you either love or don’t and I loved it.

I Love Mona Awards style of writing She has this way of pulling you under as you read you that you become submerged in what ever world she is creating and I love writers like that I what to live eat and breathe a book while im reading it, and Mona always manages to make sure you can’t stop thinking about what your reading.

I found the trippy is this real or not real vibe that most of the book has fantastic, for me it added to the unbeliveability of the situation Samantha was in which is reinforced by Samantha as an unreliable narrator. The whole story is from her point of view we are only seeing her opinions, memories maybe even her imagination. Samantha even repeatedly tells us through her memories of her mom that she gets carried away with her imagination. ‘How much did I invent in the end? Probably a Lot’. By the end of the book it leaves you guessing how much is real and how much is Samanthas interpretation of what has happened, how much has she added to give us ‘a better story’.

Did I get the point of what the bunnies were doing? No not really but I don’t really think the Bunnies understand what they are doing or trying to achieve with their workshops and the creation of their ‘Darlings’ either. They are so entrenched in the pretension of academia they are almost performing academia the same way they are performing the hyper femininity of the Bunny persona. Watching them unravel over the course of the novel and become people rather than characters is so satisfying, again all through Samantha’s perception of them so how much is real and how much is Samantha is questionable but that is part of the fun of the novel.

I think I could unpack aspects of this novel all day for years and still find things to talk about I love it it’s absolutely worth a read but go at it with an open mind, Bunny x