⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨ (4.5/5 stars)
Dark, deranged, and drop-dead delicious. Welcome back to the Bunny-verse.

Mona Awad has done it again—We Love You, Bunny is a heady, hallucinatory thrill ride that somehow manages to be even weirder, wilder, and more wickedly brilliant than its cult predecessor. Part prequel, part sequel, part "WTF-did-I-just-read?" fever dream, this book is a dark academia slasher wrapped in pink bows and soaked in glitter and blood.

We reunite with Samantha, now a published author, only to see her quite literally bound and gagged by the same sugar-coated sociopaths who once lured her into their secret workshops. But this time? The Bunnies are telling their story. And it’s…unhinged in the best possible way.

Each chapter is a rabbit-hole within a rabbit-hole, as the Bunnies narrate their twisted, magical, and grotesquely hilarious origin story—complete with monstrous creations, manic writing rituals, and a love of art that’s both sacred and violent. Awad’s writing is razor-sharp, lyrical, and completely off-the-wall in the most hypnotic way. The prose flips between satire and horror with jaw-dropping precision, keeping you in a constant state of amused dread.

The reason this isn’t a full five stars? There are a few intentionally disorienting sections that may feel overly surreal or drag for readers who prefer a clear narrative thread. But honestly, the chaos is part of the charm. It’s not a book that holds your hand—it ties you to a chair, looks you dead in the eyes, and whispers, “We love you, Bunny.”

If Bunny was about outsider loneliness and longing, We Love You, Bunny is about the monstrous beauty of collective creation, toxic sisterhood, and the terrifying cost of being truly seen. It’s Frankenstein meets Mean Girls on acid, and it works.

This isn’t just a return to the Bunny-verse—it’s a total descent. And I loved every dark, glitter-drenched second of it.

thank you to netgalley and simon element for this e-arc 🐇 what does it mean to tap the wound? what happens when you lose yourself in your art? the process? your creation? tis painful and at the same time, tons of fun, k?

We Love You, Bunny is both a sequel and a prequel. Multiple POVs, multiple parts (hehe), and way more chaos than the first installment, Bunny. Mona Awad has yet again written a book that will have you going, wtf did I just read? Except this time it’s cranked way, way up. Every description is entirely unique and transfixing. Words on a page are not a Boundary that hold Awad back. She leapt through the (triangle) window and we’re along for the transformative Journey.

Included in this journey: what it means to exist as a woman (smile, smile, politely smile), life as a creative and what the creative process can feel like, and the sharp pain of love.

I thought “Bunny” was a wonderfully bizarre book, and this is a wonderfully bizarre companion piece. I enjoyed the inner monologues of the other characters. Highly recommended for those who liked the first book!

Buckle up, Bunny, because this shit was wild. I’m still not sure if I know what I just read. The most intense fever dream, acid trip concoction I’ve experienced 😆 More so than the og Bunny. Somehow, this sequel surpasses such vividness. I read this a week ago and I’m still trying to process what I read.

Get your mind vagina ready, Bunny. Get ready for Bunny 2.0.

Ok, bunny. So I loved Bunny. This second installment didn’t really hit for me - it was repetitive, way too long and beats you over the head with its themes. It was still surreal and entertaining, don’t get me wrong, but I wanted more from it. I wanted more from the Bunnies, and more subtlety. Reading a lot of this felt like watching the 1996 Romeo + Juliet movie, stylish but a bit unsettling in a good way if that makes any sense at all 😂

I was so excited when Netgalley sent me an ARC of We Love You, Bunny. I had adored the first book, it was weird in every single way that I liked, and now I had my hands on an early copy of its sequel! (or...prequel?)

Dipping back into this world has been so much fun. Bunny (the hivemind) feel like toddlers trying desperately to become academics, grabbing at the reader with sticky hands and unwashed faces, insisting that I help them with the work. Aerius too was a delightful addition, his chapters read like a midsummer drug trip. Nothing makes sense, but he's trying his best.

My only grip with this novel is that ultimately, it felt a little unneeded. After finishing it, I wondered if I would recommend this to anyone who was a fan of the first book, and finding that my answer is only "I'm not sure". It was far too long of a novel, as much as I worried about Aerius, his sections, with their curious spelling and smileys would always grow tiring about halfway though. I blasted through the girl's pages. And then would put the book down halfway through Aerius's.

It was definitely a fun read! The girl's terrible little personalities shown in their parts. But it could definitely do with some cuts here and there.

And thank you again for the ARC, Bunny!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an ARC in return for an honest review.

Holy SHIT! This prequel is everything I wanted Bunny to be and MORE. Not only is it incredibly remarkable to be able to write in 5 different voices all with their own diction and syntax and prose to differentiate between all of them, on top of a stellar story!!!!! I was gasping, laughing, screaming all throughout this book. Aerius is up there with my favorite literally characters of all time. I love the literary allusions to Frankenstein, Alice in Wonderland, and the author’s own Bunny. I am incredibly impressed and very happy to have continued on with this series and am very thankful for this ARC.

Thank you to @netgalley for this eARC! We Love You, Bunny is out September 23.

Mona Awad truly creates other-worldly experiences in her books. She takes us out of our reality and outside the reality of her stories- reading her books is an *experience*.

We Love You, Bunny is both a prequel and a sequel. We follow a few different perspectives and timelines. We meet a few new characters and reacquaint ourselves with familiar characters from Bunny (Jonah is my personal favorite). Each perspective is written in a very stream of consciousness way and really gives us insight into each character.

I found WLYB to be both more gruesome and more comical. The ax is still the girly pops’ weapon of choice. Violence is a huge theme of the book, like in Bunny. At the same time, Awad had so many dry, witty lines, I actually chuckled out loud. Also, this book felt very meta. It is so aware of how ridiculous, campy, dark, and metaphorical it is.

I do suggest re-reading Bunny before diving into this book but at the same time, if you’ve never read Bunny, you could still enjoy this pre-/sequel!

Overall, I had a good time with We Love You, Bunny! Bunny is such an iconic and strange book and it was fun being back in the world in a different and even more unhinged way. I left this story the same way I left Bunny: there’s so much to unpack and digest and maybe I’m not smart enough to understand everything but it’s ok?

(3.5 star rating)

We Love You, Bunny is a bizarre, bold, and darkly hilarious follow-up to Bunny that dives deeper into the surreal world of Samantha Mackey and the cult-like clique of pink-clad creatives. This time, the Bunnies kidnap Samantha during her book tour to tell their side of the story, unraveling a wild blend of satire, horror, and fairy tale absurdity. Mona Awad’s signature fever-dream style is back in full force—sharp, weird, and often disorienting. While the plot can feel scattered and overly abstract at times, the book still offers a unique, twisted exploration of friendship, creation, and narrative control. It’s a strange and fascinating ride—unsettling, smart, and definitely not for everyone, but perfect for readers who crave something offbeat and unforgettable.

I was absolutely obsessed with Bunny when I first read it, and I'm so grateful for a chance to read this eArc!
"We Love You, Bunny" expanded so much on the things I wondered most about Warren and the Bunnies. Their backstories and the magic of this campus were great to have with the first books plot in the back of my mind. I do wish that some of those things were expanded even further because their explanations were so brief. I also think the story the Bunnies were telling felt too desperate for the characters.

After reading and loving Bunny, I was glad to hear that we were getting more of the bunnies but had no idea what to expect. Where Bunny served as an introduction to this fever-dream of a story, <i>We Love You, Bunny</i> delves deeper into the psyche of our cast and crew. Told from the bunnies' point of view, we receive a firsthand retelling and more background on how the bunnies came to be. I would recommend this to anyone who loved Bunny and just wanted to dive deeper and get some questions answered.

Thank you, Simon Element and NetGalley, for receiving this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

We Love You, Bunny was a trip and nothing like I anticipated. In true Mona Awad fashion, you find yourself indulging in a fever dream sequence that sneaks up on you and takes you along for the ride. I found the tonal shift from Bunny to this sequel incredibly masterful. Awad has an incredible talent for giving each character their very own specific voice that is easily distinguishable from one another. I think this is truly where her writing shines, in a multi-character and plot-forward book. I also found this sequel to be more sex forward than Bunny was, wherein Bunny was quite sexless, and this element brings forth more context to the original story.

That being said, my initial thoughts were confirmed upon finishing the book. A sequel to Bunny was not necessary. I found We Love You, Bunny to overexplain the original fantastical and mystical elements that made me fall in love with Bunny in the first place. The open-endedness and mysteriousness of Bunny is part of what made it as amazing and divisive amongst audiences. It was a "if you get it, you get it" scenario. Nothing Mona Awad writes could ever be bad; however, I wonder what the inspiration was behind the sequel. I also found the ending to be incredibly weak, and it pales in comparison to any of her previous work.

thank you simon element for this earc.

I was excited to get back in to this world. i enjoyed the first book Bunny and was hoping for more from Samantha, some from the bunnies, and blindly hoping for the same weird confusing drama.

the first section is all about each bunny, they each get their POV chapter to explain why they went to Warren , what happened to make them start exploding bunnies into boys, and the subsequent actions. if you’ve read Bunny, you know that they speak annoyingly. they use the pet name bunny for each other , they say stuff like, “k?” a lot and they overdramatize. but this section was pretty good, and provided all the background stuff we didn’t get from Bunny.

after each of their pov, we get the pov of their first creation, the first bunny-turned-boy. here is where i began to lose love for this book. since the boy was a bunny, he only knows what was instilled in him from the girls. we are reading from his childish and uneducated POV which leads to random capitalized words, misspelt words, lack of understanding of things around him, and excessive use of 🙂/☹️ in text. this is fine for a bit but becomes wildly annoying after a while. also it goes from the bunnies addressing the reader/Samantha/themselves as “Bunny” to the boy that was once a bunny addressing us as “Reader”. it feels like a cop out to writing a good book when you can just talk to the reader and explain literally everything.
we get a brief break in this POV to read from the girls, and then back to creation and then back to girls to end it out.
Everything in this book felt too on the nose, too hold the readers hand to get to the end, too many allusions to frankenstein, too many pop culture references. honestly, i feel like this prequel/sequel is unnecessary and provides answers that most people figured out (or didn’t want to know) from Bunny, the first book.

anyways, Bunny, I suffered through 500 pages ☹️ But there was a very satisfying ending which ultimately was like really fucking good, k? 🙂

worth the read if you enjoyed Bunny and want to spend more time in the world of Warren/Samantha/The Bunnies. Just know that it will probably not have all the magic of the first book.

I really loved the ending of the book, as well as the bunnies' individual stories. And while I did enjoy the first novel more, this is quite a strong sequel. I adore Mona Awad's writing.

This was fine. There were parts I liked. I LOVED Bunny. This just felt...unnecessary? I didn't need a follow up. I loved the way Bunny ended and this just felt like excess to me. THAT SAID, you will enjoy this if you wanted more after Bunny ended. I just did not need it.

When I read the blurb for this saying it was a Prequel as well as a Sequel I was confused but then I picked it up and it all made sense in the best possible way. We Love You, Bunny is now one of my all time favorite books! I have never read anything like this and it was a blast to get through. Being able to see through the eyes and the mind of one of the Bunny’s bunny/man creations was out of this world entertaining and something I never expected. Awad goes places I don’t think many authors think to or have the guts to go and executes it SO well. Please please please pick up this book and have a blast.

When I first finished Bunny, I gave it two stars. Then it clawed its way into my subconscious and refused to leave. A year later, I realized it was actually a 4.5-star fever dream that had permanently shifted my taste in books. I didn’t know what I was walking into back then—and maybe that was for the best.

So when I cracked open We Love You, Bunny, I knew what kind of unhinged, witchy weirdness I was getting into. And Mona Awad? She did it again. This book is a Bunny Bible—equal parts prequel and sequel, told in second person from multiple perspectives, drenched in dark academia, and expands the Bunny-verse with eerie, delicious precision.

Was the first 20% a little slow? Yes. It felt more like a recap than something new, which is what cost this book a star for me. But once it picks up, it really picks up. The payoff is there, and the experimental structure worked for me overall. It’s witchy, messy, deeply original, and totally feral in the best way.

This book is the pinnacle of the weird girl canon, and I had the best time savoring it. Huge thanks to the publisher and Mona Awad for the early read—what an honor.

Well, this isn’t exactly fucking Frankenstein, Bunny.”

I was super excited and honestly honored to get an early review copy of this! Even though this is sort of a sequel but more-so a prequel, “We Love You, Bunny” feels most like a companion piece to volume 1. Almost as if Mona Awad were writing very capable fan fiction of her own universe. I realize this is a pretty strange thing to say considering the subject matter, but “We Love You, Bunny” is quite a bit more fantastical than “Bunny” was. So you should maybe know that going in if part one was a tad much for you. (I was obsessed with it.) In fact, I would even say that it’s ten times weirder than the first book. I have to confess that while “Bunny” is still one of my favorite novels in general, I have only read it once and since I have the memory of a goldfish I have forgotten some of it. It’s definitely time to revisit!

"WLYB" is completely made up of narration, so basically the chapters are all monologue. I can easily see this not being some people’s cup of tea. Especially if they find the casual and frequent use of “Bunny” as a pet name irritating. Oddly, I think that in another author's hands something like that would likely bother me but Awad manages to make it both cute and funny in a deranged way. The story of these characters gets pretty dark and violent, but I was consistently laughing even when I knew I shouldn't be. Mona Awad and Ottessa Moshfegh are both able to do this thing  where certain moments make me feel a little bit uncomfortable but also intrigued at the same time. I’m certainly not OKAY with what’s happening, but I’m fascinated and want to keep watching to see what happens. And Awad especially has such a beautiful and weird imagination. I'm an admirer, for sure. Though "WLYB" does have some strong things to say about going overboard with worshipping your muse...

Wow! I somehow enjoyed this prequel/sequel more than the original. Although I preferred the original ending. I was a little let down with the ending for this one and it’s why I took a star away. Loved Aerius’s POV so much!

Enormous thanks to #netgalley and to #Simon Element | S&S/ #MarysueRucciBooks for the loan of "We Love You, Bunny" which is due to hit shelves on 9.23.2025. I don't typically read through member reviews but was really curious to see what others had written (positive that many/most would be big #BUNNY fans and have thoughts/feelings about the prequel/sequel of this follow up).

Mona Awad is a spectacular, supernatural, and unique "word witch" and she managed to create the "feminine" (kinda, sorta) equivalent of Bateman's American Psycho while also YES incorporating BRIDE of Frankenstein and Heathers AND mostly paving her own lane -- a lane in which other books will be "Bunny-comparable" now and always.

These days it's impossible to write an opinion about anything without receiving some degree of ignorant kickback but I think that even people who didn't "need" a prequel/sequel and didn't rate the book 4 or higher are still impressed by Awad's incredible imagination and readers (and esp reader/WRITERS) will relate to the dynamics within "the cave" and the stereotypical MFA-related references.

It's an area that is still wide open for lampooning because - ummm - otherwise where's your sense of humor, right? The Poet Trees and the Fictions? My man Jonah makes it back for this book as did many of the usual suspects (all of the OBs...yes, "original bunnies"...and some new characters as well -- and LOTS AND LOTS of BUNNIES -- even a Hare Moon. A shit ton of bunnies.

I will not spoil a thing but will say that if you are a fan of BUNNY (2019) this sequel/prequel (and possible launchpad for many more chapters within the BUNNY universe (we all know how bunnies multiply, right?) this is a MUST-READ.

And I love the love that Marysue Rucci shows for all of the above in the intro letter to the e-ARC. As a writer (kinda) that's the kind of love I'd long for someday. Keep your hot dudes, I'll take the Marysue!!!