Mona Awad’s We Love You, Bunny: A Must-Read for Fans

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About The Book 📚

Title: We Love You, Bunny

Series: Bunny #2

Author: Mona Awad

Publication Date: Sep 23, 2025

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Genre: Adult Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Literary, Dark Academia

Pages: 496

Setting: New England, U.S.

Click Here for Content Warnings (may contain spoilers)

Three Words That Describe This Book: dark, weird, disturbing

About The Author

“Mona Awad is the bestselling author of the novels Rouge, All’s Well, Bunny, and 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl. She is a three-time finalist for a Goodreads Choice Award, the recipient of an Amazon Best First Novel Award, and she was shortlisted for the Giller Prize. Bunny was a finalist for a New England Book Award and was named a Best Book of 2019 by Time, Vogue, and the New York Public Library. It is currently being developed for film with Bad Robot Productions. Rouge is being adapted for film by Fremantle and Sinestra. Margaret Atwood named Awad her “literary heir” in The New York Times’s T Magazine. She teaches fiction in the creative writing program at Syracuse University and is based in Boston. Her work has been translated into fifteen languages. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Ploughshares, McSweeney’s and TIME magazine, among others. Her next novel, We Love You, Bunny, will be released on September 23, 2025 with Simon & Schuster.” https://mona-awad-grou.squarespace.com/about

My Review

› Watch Mona Awad talk about We Love You, Bunny: https://youtu.be/coYcKaLKJZI?si=8wWpDiy7HHpWBhDK

In the digital advance copy I received from Netgalley, We Love You, Bunny is accurately described as “a fairy tale slasher that explores the wonder and horror of creation itself. Not to mention the transformative powers of love and friendship…Frankenstein by way of Heathers, We Love You Bunny is both a prequel and a sequel, ….and a standalone novel.”

Mona Awad’s author’s note says: “Part fairy tale, part slasher, and all dark academia cult vibes, We Love You, Bunny is a fever-dreamy campus novel filled with romantic triangles, bloody axes, and the wonders and consequences of sharing your creative heart.”

› I love this cover! The bunny face that’s made from plant leaves and flowers against this background of black roses is beautiful. I have read a few books by Mona Awad. The first one was All’s Well, which I loved so much that I immediately re-read it upon finishing. I did the same for Bunny and Rouge. Mona Awad is one of my all-time favourite authors, and I will always read anything she puts out. The only other author who gives me the same feeling that I can think of right now is Iain Reid.

› The protagonist of Bunny, Samantha, has returned to campus while on her book tour. She published the story all about her experience with the Bunnies, and they aren’t happy about it. They kidnap her and tie her up in Kyra’s attic so they can set the story straight. We, the reader, get to hear each Bunny’s account of what really happened two years ago.

› We begin with Cupcake, who says her real name isn’t Caroline, it’s Coraline. She takes us back all the way to First Year at the New England Ivy School, Warren, when she met the other Bunnies. She met Kyra first, then Viktoria, and Elsinore. Samantha had changed their names in her book to Kira, Victoria, and Eleanor. We also get to meet “the Poets” and learn more about the rivalry between them and “the Fictions”. There is a new character named Aerius who stole my heart and reminded me of The Last Unicorn (one of my all-time favourite books) and Frankenstein’s monster. He has such an innocence that you feel bad he’s wrapped up in this violent world. He has different names for the Bunnies, which I won’t reveal here as it’s a little spoilery. One of my favourite characters is Pony, who provides some much-needed comic relief.

› Bunny was told from Samantha’s perspective, an unreliable narrator, while We Love You, Bunny is told from multiple perspectives, and I think all of them are unreliable. We get to hear the events of what happened in Bunny, but told from the point of view of the “Bunnies”. They often contradict Samantha’s story, but also each other’s stories. So we don’t really know who’s telling the truth.

APPEAL FACTORS
Storyline: character-driven, intricately plotted, issue-oriented, nonlinear, open-ended, unconventional
Pace: slow
Tone: angsty, high-drama, suspenseful, thought-provoking, magical, sinister, gruesome
Humour: dark humour
Writing Style: banter-filled, conversational, compelling, descriptive
Character: complex, flawed, likeable, quirky, relatable, sarcastic, well-developed, multiple points of view
Disability representation: mental illness
LGBTQIA+ Representation: asexual, bisexual, gay, queer

› In the past, I have given a rating out of ten and converted that to a star rating, but I’m no longer giving a star rating here on my blog. I will continue to do that on Goodreads and The Story Graph.

› Final Thoughts
• With well-developed characters, incredible world-building, and beautiful writing, We Love You, Bunny is a must-read for all fans of Bunny. It’s about mental health, friendship, creation, destruction, and truth. If you loved Bunny because it was open-ended and every reader walked away with a different experience, then you may not enjoy We Love You, Bunny. If you loved Bunny and you want to know everything about every character (like me), then you will enjoy We Love You, Bunny. This is being marketed as a prequel, a sequel, and a standalone, and I agree with the first two; however, this is not a standalone. I think you should read Bunny first. That being said, I didn’t get to have the experience reading this as a standalone, so if you do, please leave a comment and let us know if you think it works as a standalone