Bunny: The Perfect October Read

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Carly Ungerer

Horror, dark academia, and a series of twisted events that makes you question everything makes Bunny the perfect October read.

Samantha “Sam” Heather Matthews is a graduate student in her final year in a prestigious Master of Fine Arts program, along with four other girls, the Bunnies. Always the odd one out, Sam harbors resentment for the Bunnies’ saccharine nature and childlike behavior, that is, until they invite her into their off-campus workshop, pulling her into their orbit.

As she draws closer to the Bunnies, she drifts further from her only friend Ava, who worries at Sam’s sudden enamorment with the women she once hated. At the same time, a peculiar man who seems all too familiar to Sam makes a perplexing appearance as she becomes increasingly entangled with the Bunnies, causing a chain of events that will change all of their lives.

Broken into three parts, Bunny is a darkly comedic novel that feels like a cross between The Craft, Heathers, and The Secret History as the story unravels, leaving you questioning what–and who–is real and what really happened.

Bunny is perfect for anyone who likes books with open endings, analyzing foreshadowing, and books that you can’t put down, and its minimal gore makes it the perfect book for new horror readers.