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Bunny by Mona Awad Book Review

bunny by mona awad
bunny by mona awad

Blurb

“We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. We very nearly did, didn’t we?”

Samantha Heather Mackey couldn’t be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England’s Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort–a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other “Bunny,” and seem to move and speak as one.

But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies’ fabled “Smut Salon,” and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door–ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies’ sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus “Workshop” where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision.

The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination.

Sensitive Content

Here is the sensitive content I observed while reading this book:

  • Abandonment
  • Addiction
  • Alcoholism
  • Animal cruelty/death
  • Blood
  • Body Shaming
  • Confinement
  • Classism
  • Death of a Parent
  • Dysphoria
  • Eating Disorder
  • Kidnapping
  • Gore
  • Medical treatment/trauma
  • Misogyny
  • Profanity
  • Rape
  • Self-Harm
  • Sexual Content
  • Sexual Harassment
  • Stalking
  • Suicide
  • Toxic relationships
  • Vomit

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Their Vicious Darling by Nikki St. Crowe Book Review

Blurb

The Dark One has finally accepted me…just in time for everything to change. Because Vane’s brother, The Crocodile, has just arrived on Neverland soil and he’s not alone. He’s brought with him members of the royal Darkland family and they want Vane’s Death Shadow back at any cost.

Of course, Peter Pan, Vane, Kas and Bash, they’re all familiar with war. But war isn’t easy when love is on the line.

I know those vicious Lost Boys would do anything to protect me. But what if I’m not the one that needs saving?

As power shifts on the island and shadows are claimed, all five of us have to let go of who we were, if we have any chance of becoming who we are destined to be.

NOTE: Their Vicious Darling is book three in the Vicious Lost Boys series. It is a dark romantic reimagining of Peter and Wendy. All characters have been aged up. If you like your enemies to lovers romance with hot, ruthless, morally gray love interests, you’ll enjoy Their Vicious Darling. You can expect an island with darkness and secrets and no true hero in sight, with a found family atmosphere, and β€˜touch her and I’ll unalive you’ vibes. Their Vicious Darling ends on a cliffhanger.

Please check the author’s website for CWs.

Triggers

I did check her website and she gives this general warning for all the books in the Vicious Lost Boys Series: Mental illness, smoking, graphic/rough sex, sex in public, group sex, DubCon, graphic violence, graphic language, captive/captivity, degradation, submission, bondage/ropes, blood play, choking, CNC, and talk of sexual assault. I will say that there is quite a bit of alcohol in this book, as well.

  • Alcohol
  • Blood
  • BDSM
  • CNC
  • DubCon
  • Mental Illness
  • Polyamory
  • Profanity
  • Sexually Explicit Scenes
  • Smoking
  • Talk of Sexual Assault
  • Violence

Ratings

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Never Look Back by A. L. Jackson Book Review

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Blurb

From NYT and USA Today bestselling author A.L. Jackson comes an enemies-to-lovers, close-proximity, second-chance romance…

Logan Lawson won me in a bet.

The second I saw him sitting at the illegal card table, I knew I was in trouble.

Years ago, he sealed my fate and condemned me to a life I didn’t want to lead.

Yet he’s filled with untamed fury and thirsting for vengeance against the husband I hate.

Aster Costa is everything I never should have wanted.

The second she showed with her pompous, prick of a husband, I should have gotten up and walked.

But there’s no looking away from the woman who wrecked me.

Worse, I can’t stop myself from plotting to get her back.

I want nothing more than to be free of my husband.

I’m afraid Logan Lawson is the only one who can make that happen.

He might hate me for our past, but now it’s me on my knees begging for help.

Finding each other in the middle of it wasn’t supposed to be part of the bargain.

But once Logan touches me, I’m gone.

A torch is rekindled. A fire is lit.

Aster Costa has always been mine.

And this time, no matter the cost, I won’t give her back…

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Triggers

Jackson always has a trigger warning list on her website but it was not in my e-book. I’ve listed the triggers that I observed, which weren’t necessarily included in her list on her website. Though she does let you know about the nature of her book before the book begins and from the blurb, some of these situations can be deduced, others definitely would not have been.

  • Abortion
  • Abusive Relationship (not between main characters)
  • Assault
  • Attempted Murder
  • Cheating
  • Death
  • Gambling
  • Gun Violence / Guns
  • Hostages
  • Murder
  • Needles
  • Pregnancy
  • Profanity
  • Sexually Explicit Scenes
  • Smoking
  • Violence

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Nala’s First Birthday Dress

This dress is very special and I am so happy that it is done and I can show you all! I talk about my process in making this dress and photos are below this video!

I sewed up the Sunkissed Dress by Ellie and Mac. I used a size 12 month and made no adjustments beside a little length. This fabric is from Joann’s and you can pick up snaps below.

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I also talk about the muslin I have been working on which is the Marigold jumpsuit from Tilly and the Buttons. I’ve got a good base now to adjust the way I need to in order for this jumpsuit to fit me.

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