# We Love You, Bunny

By Mona Awad · Bunny, book 2

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Novelist Samantha Heather Mackey returns to her old graduate writing program on a book tour. Her former classmates, who call one another Bunny, take her captive: they object to how she wrote about them, and now they want to tell the story.

## What makes it funny?

The Bunnies congratulate Sam on her success while keeping her tied up. When they propose a toast, they have to account for the small inconvenience that their guest can't lift her glass. Their performance of generous friendship persists through threats and restraints.

### The comedy at work

The Bunnies speak as a chorus, dressing literary envy in compliments and therapeutic language. They explain away their cruelty so smoothly that their account of events becomes a satire of writers protecting their own flattering version of the truth.

### Try this if…

Readers who enjoy vicious campus satire and unreliable storytellers have plenty to work with here. The writing-program rivalries lead into stranger questions about what happens when an author's creations acquire voices of their own.

### Good to know

You can read this independently, though it revisits and reinterprets Bunny. Captivity, drugs, blood, violent threats and sexual material accompany the comedy.

## What to expect

- Genre: Contemporary & literary · Horror
- On the shelf: Campus novel
- Kind of humor: Absurdism · Dark comedy · Satire
- Format: Novel
- Length: 496 pages
- Audiobook: Available
- Published: 2025

## Sources & further reading

- Publisher: [We Love You, Bunny | Book by Mona Awad | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster](https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Love-You-Bunny/Mona-Awad/9781668059869)
- Publisher: [Publisher](https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Love-You-Bunny/Mona-Awad/9781668059869)
- Review: [Kirkus review](https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/mona-awad/we-love-you-bunny)
- Review: [Publishers Weekly review](https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781668059869)
- Reading sample: [Good Reading excerpt](https://goodreadingmagazine.com.au/article/extract-we-love-you-bunny-by-mona-awad)