insane. loved every second of it. definitely follows bunny in a way you won't be expecting, in the best possible way.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

First of all woah. When I opened the email that said I was approved for this ARC I literally was running around my house screaming. I recently read the first book and was so hooked. It had me second guessing everything and so utterly confused and shocked all at the same time. Once I found out the second book was coming out soon I ran to see if it was on NetGalley and died when I was able to find it!! I am so glad I did because this book was so good as well, it might not be as good as the first but I was still obsessed.

I did want to touch on something though! If you’re expecting this one to be from the Bunnies point of view only, it’s not. It does have some parts in the Bunnies point of View but most of the book is actually in the point of view of Aerius one of the bunnies that was turned into a boy. I actually did enjoy his point of view it just wasn’t what I was expecting. I was hoping to get more on how the bunnies started and why but I feel like there’s still a bunch of unanswered questions.

This is just one of those books that will always be a mystery, I cannot wait for this one to release so I can talk to people about it because so much happened. I am hoping for a third book as well!

Mona Awad has done it again. We Love You, Bunny is everything I wanted it to be and more. Unhinged, surreal, wickedly smart, and emotionally gutting in that signature Bunny way. If Bunny was a fever dream this book is the full blown hallucination that follows. Messier, deeper, and somehow even more satisfying.

This is not a book for newcomers. It is for the Bunnies, those of us who were obsessed with the first novel who annotated, spiraled, and made personality quizzes about it. And for us this is pure payoff. We get backstory, chaos, new perspectives, and theories confirmed. The structure is bold, the voices are distinct, and the emotional stakes are just as sharp as the satire.

Yes it is weird. Yes it is absurd. Yes parts of it made me want to peel back my own brain. And I loved it. The final act had me fully locked in and some passages were so beautifully written I had to stop and reread just to take them in again.

It is not trying to be tidy or palatable. It is messy and excessive in the best ways. A book about creation, performance, obsession, and the terrifying desire to be seen and loved. I did not want it to end.

If Bunny crawled under your skin and never left We Love You, Bunny will sink its teeth in and whisper More.

I feel like I have no idea what I just read, but I also know exactly what I just read. I have all of the thoughts, and yet no thoughts. I have all of the feelings, and also none. I loved this so much, and I loved the ending. I want more.

This is a sequel to Bunny. It's ridiculous, it's dark, it's satire, it's another wild fever dream, it's right back where the first book took place, it's....everything Bunny ?

There are multiple POV'S and it gives you more insight to each of the cohort from the first book, and Jonah, it gives Jonah.

I feel like this will either hit or miss again with people. If you read the first and loved it, you're probably going to love this as well.

I will be thinking about this book for along time, as I did with Bunny. It's already one of my favorite books of the year.
I cannot wait until this is published so I can go into detail about it. I can't wait to talk about it with all the other Bunny lovers I know.
I cannot wait to go on reddit and discord and do a deep dive down the rabbit hole about theories and conspiracies and make this book part of my entire personality again. I cannot wait to buy the book, read Bunny again, and then read this. Highlight, tab, underline, everything.

Thank you Mona Awad, publishers, and Netgalley for this ARC on my birthday of all, days. I absolutely loved this book.

Thanks to Simon Element and NetGalley for a copy of this ARC

I have been thinking about Bunny for months after I read it and i think the same will be true for we live you bunny.

WLYB is a delirious war of a myriad of children playing at being adults. A brutal mix of sharing to much and not enough.

It challenges the perception of self and forces you to consider if there might be more to the internal worlds of those around us.

I enjoyed most povs more then i enjoyed Samantha’s from the first novel so all in all this was the more enjoyable read for me.

I do feel like id like this just a touch better if i was a little smarter but even with my mash potato brains i did alright.

I found it quite sad even if it’s absurd to the point of being funny sometimes.

It wont be for everyone thats for sure but it think its for me.

Unsurprisingly Jonah is still the best

We love you, Bunny is a prequal/sequel of the first book Bunny. I finished this book yesterday and have some thoughts.

I feel like this was a book that didn’t necessarily need to be. We get a lot of backstories, a lot of answers to the mysteries in the first book that I just don’t believe we really needed. It almost makes the experience of the first book less magical. (which I re-read right before starting this one). In the first book there was a mystery a sense of what-the-heck is happening, what am I reading and you had to keep going to find out and even then everyone could walk away with a different out come to what they just read that was the magic of the first book.

In this instalment we are mostly in the minds of the Bunnies before the events of the first book, before they meet Sam. While this was interesting and I loved getting the backstory of these twisted minds, I wish there was more to them and what made them this way. While we do get some of that I don’t feel like we got much in that vein but boy did we got A LOT on Aerius (the girls first bunny-boy creation) and eh I just didn’t really enjoy being in his sections, he was super childish and lacked understating of the things around him (which yes I get it) this is okay for a little while but it was just way too long and he addresses you as ‘Reader’ it just really brought me out of the book, it almost felt like a cop out “why write a great book when I can just explain exactly what is happening, Reader.” 😊It was just so different from the style and mystery of the first book.

However, the last 50 pages or so were engaging and satisfying and I really enjoyed them. just really dragged through that whole middle portion. I do feel like this is maybe set up to have a third book and maybe that would be the events after and in the present time which could be interesting to read. All in all I liked the fever dream feel that Bunny had and maybe I just expected that of this book as well, however this one fell flat for me. I believe that Bunny stands very well on its own and didn’t need a continuation. I read 100% of this book for maybe 30% that was actually enjoyable.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the eARC of this book, in exchange for an honest review.

This was perfect for me. 100% pointless to pick up if you haven't read Bunny, but if you have and enjoyed it, this is a must-read. It answered almost every question the first book left me with, and I feel like this only serves to elevate the original. It was also really cool to have some of my theories confirmed six years from when Bunny came out!

This is every bit as fresh and creative as the original, I didn't see the ending coming, and I enjoyed every new narrative voice introduced despite expecting to hate Aerius. Necessary addition to the series, incredibly fun and emotional at the same time, and too short despite being 500 pages. Mona Awad does not miss and I'll always want more no matter how long she makes her books.

I've been reading all of Awad's new releases for years since I've read Bunny, the senior novel to this title; thus I was excited and a bit apprehensive to be back in this world. As always Awad's writing is masterful, always having unique voices and styles for her characters making them distinct from each other even if they speak as a collective. However, I just found that I wasn't drawn to the tale. I'm not sure if I would have had a different experience if I had reread Bunny prior to this book, but I found sections of it dragging a bit. I always was very aware of the metaphors and what was trying to be said with writers, artists, and muses; but I just found that I was not connecting. This could be an entirely *me* problem though, as the writing itself was done very well. I'm excited to see what Awad imagines up next!

Hello hello Bunnies! I'm going to start this off by saying that I liked this. It took some time for me to reach that conclusion, but I can comfortably say I liked it--albeit with some issues. Did it take me 3-5 business months for me to finish it? Yes. Did it also take me an extra day to scoop up my thoughts for this review? Also, yes.

A prequel-sequel to the infamous Bunny? For sure, love to see it! A stand-alone experience? ...no not really but it looks like the publisher disagrees with me on that one. I think a good chunk of the experience from this book will be lost if you have not read Bunny. There are too many callbacks to the first book that would make zero sense. Miss Awad you weren't slick every time you brought up swans, feathers, and antlers... I see you.

But I digress Bunnies, time to move on, k?

If you liked Bunny, there is a 90% chance that you'll like this one too. If you did not like Bunny, you should skip out on this because it's more of the same lol. Bunny took a minute before it fully sank in. Like I legit had a Pepe Silvia type board trying to figure out what I just read. This on the other hand, I get. I feel like the metaphors on the creative endeavor were dumbed down a bit and made easily digestible. It still retains that signature Mona Awad madness, but the story fell flat for me in some regards. I felt like the length of the novel was a bit too long (my physical version stood at a little over 400 pages... a good 100 could've been cut) and it got a little repetitive.

However, with every Mona Awad book there's something new and surreal that she experiments with, and this one is no exception. The dreamlike nature and narrative experimentation are a sight to behold. It is pedal to the metal straight from the first page and Awad doesn't hold back. The Bunnies are always a delight to read, and their sections had me hooked and wanting more. Even the new character was fascinating to read (quite literally... you'll understand that after you read this book lol) and his sections were unhinged fever dreams that were so much fun to read.

Overall, I'm glad that Awad brought us back to the universe of Bunny. Bunny itself is such a unique novel and I'm glad that she was able to replicate the experience even if it wasn’t exactly as it was. As always, I'm excited to see what she writes next. To all my fellow Bunnies out there, I can't wait to see what you think!

I was excited for a follow up to Bunny because I really enjoyed the first one. The tone was still there and I think people who really got into the first book and want to learn more about all the characters will enjoy it, but I was not very interested in the backstories of all the other characters and the perspective it was told in that they were talking to you got tiring fairly quickly. But I hope other fans of the book will enjoy it.

Oh, Bunny, what an absolute trip! Mona Awad’s writing always feels like a slow descent into madness, but this one… this one started mad and got somehow worse as it went along. Now I’m left questioning reality and speaking to myself in the weirdest narrative voice. Time to go back to a “normal” book, I guess.

BUNNY!!!!!!!!!!! This was so stinking weird, it was perfect. I love this universe, I love Mona Awad, I love you, Bunny.

Yes, Mona Awad is queen of the fever dream. And We Love You, Bunny delivers plenty of it. Awad finds fun ways to fit in different point of views, although how reliable the narrator is might be up to anyone to decide. The back half of the book has a more coherent stream of bizarre-ness, but altogether just seems to fall flat. If you like Mona Awad’s other works (I do too!), you will find something in here to like.

I was not a huge fan of Bunny, but I was still curious to see Awad’s follow-up. I do think that We Love You, Bunny held my attention better than its predecessor, if only because I didn’t have to spend as much time figuring out what was going on and what the “rules” of the world were. I could have personally done with fewer chapters from the Bunnies since they ended up being a bit repetitive and differentiated only in style but not substance. I found Aerius’ chapters the most compelling once I got used to the…unconventional stylization. It was entertaining seeing different perspectives on the happenings of the original novel, and I had some real laugh out loud moments.

We Love You, Bunny is a wonderfully unhinged prequel-sequel that only Mona Awad could deliver. I spent much of my time hunting for “easter eggs” from Bunny, trying to spot all the subtle (and not-so-subtle) links between the two stories. Awad continues to excel at crafting razor-sharp descriptions of artistic graduates and the faculty who shape, and sometimes stifle them. Her darkly comedic lens on clique culture and its psychological toll is both biting and brilliant.

More than anything, I appreciated how We Love You, Bunny doesn’t hold back on the weirdness or the psychological spiral. You thought Bunny was unhinged? Buckle up, bunnies...this ride is even wilder. While I found the writing style of Bunny to be slightly more captivating, this book still had me gasping and squealing when key revelations dropped. Awad gave us crumbs, and I was absolutely salivating for every single one.

I had an incredible time reading this, and I can’t wait to revisit both Bunny and We Love You, Bunny, just to uncover even more hidden layers.

I’ll admit up front: I wasn’t the biggest fan of Bunny (a 3.5 star read for me), but I appreciated the weird, mind bending journey Mona Awad took me on. It was surreal, darkly funny, and strangely emotional. That book stuck with me, and that’s why I picked up We Love You, Bunny. Unfortunately, this sequel feels like a huge hippity hop in the wrong direction.

The atmosphere is there. It is claustrophobic, dreamlike, and unsettling but the narrative doesn’t do much with it. The plot felt both thin and repetitive, and without the emotional or satirical punch that made Bunny so compelling. I wanted to like it. I tried. But if this weren’t written by Awad, I probably would’ve DNF’d.

That said, if Bunny was a 5 star experience for you and you’re hungry for more time in that bizarre universe, you might find this worthwhile. For me, it felt unnecessary, proof that not every story needs a second chapter.

She's done it again! If you loved Bunny, I'd find it hard not to love this one as well. The bunnies get their moment to share their side of the story, by any means necessary. I will say I haven't read Bunny in a few years, so I was worried about potentially forgetting some detail that really makes the story, but Awad ensures that you can read this without any refresh needed.
I think what really sold me on Bunny was the character of Sam as a narrator, and hearing things through her twisty mind. The Bunnies? They are both distinct and yet universally one voice. My favorite narration? You'll have to read to find out, bunnies!
My one caveat is that, although I enjoyed the reading immensely, I do feel like I was reading for a while on this book, where Bunny went by in the blink of an eye! Absolutely loved it.

"Bunny" was one of my favorite books when I read it a few years ago - it was bonkers, funny, and intriguing. "We Love You, Bunny" functions as a companion novel of sorts - the Bunnies telling their side of the story. Unfortunately, I'm not altogether certain it's necessary. There's nothing in "We Love You, Bunny" that improves upon the original; in fact, a lot of the narratives bleed together. No unique voices. Now, the Bunnies are *intended" to somewhat bleed together, sure, homogenized in their girlish monstrosity, but this was fine in "Bunny" when we were in Sam's point of view. When "We Love You, Bunny" is divided up into individual tales that blend together, it just doesn't function as well.

This was amusing - I enjoyed it, in parts - but just didn't hit the mark for me.

I really enjoyed Bunny for its insane characters and the mushroom trip plot. We Love You, Bunny gave me that same vibe, and I really enjoyed it. I did feel it was a little too long and would have benefited from having 50-100 pages cut. If you loved the first one, you'll really enjoy this! Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the ARC!

Oh Bunny, you’ve done it again. Mona Awad never disappoints and this prequel/sequel/stand-alone novel that brings us back into the surreal Bunny-verse may just be better than the original.

This fever dream novel takes you back to the beginning and gives you a much closer look at the Bunnies we met alongside Samanatha in Bunny. It is unabashedly wild, weird, funny and emotional all in one. Awad takes you places that you didn’t even know existed with a writing style that is unmatched. It’s obvious that Awad spent a lot of time crafting unique voices for each narrator, giving the story a unique style that we all know and love her for.

While there’s so much I want to dissect and discuss when it comes to the plot, I’m not here to give away any spoilers. All that’s left to say is you need to read this for yourself. Get your copy on September 23, Bunny.