Bunny
Bunny • Book 1
by Mona Awad
Narrated by Sophie Amoss
Why Listen to This Audiobook?
If dark academia horror crossed with surrealist satire sounds like your thing, Bunny is the weird fever dream you didn't know you needed.
- Great if you want: literary horror that skewers MFA culture with surreal dread
- Listening experience: slow, hypnotic build — unsettling in a way that creeps up on you
- Narration: Amoss captures Samantha's dry alienation and the Bunnies' saccharine menace well
- Skip if: you need coherent plot over vibes and atmosphere
About This Audiobook
At an elite New England MFA program, scholarship student Samantha exists on the periphery of her cohort, particularly alienated from a clique of wealthy classmates who call each other "Bunny." These women move through campus like a single organism, speaking in saccharine code and practicing what they term "Workshop" in secretive off-campus gatherings. When Samantha receives an unexpected invitation into their inner circle, she abandons her sole friend Ava and descends into the Bunnies' ritualistic world, where creative writing takes on disturbingly literal dimensions and imagination becomes a force capable of manifesting grotesque realities.
Sophie Amoss delivers a masterful performance that captures both Samantha's sardonic alienation and the Bunnies' unsettling collective voice with remarkable precision. Her narration expertly navigates the novel's tonal shifts from darkly comic observations about academic pretension to genuinely horrifying moments of surreal transformation. Amoss distinguishes each character while maintaining the dreamlike quality essential to Awad's exploration of toxic female friendships and artistic obsession. The audio format particularly enhances the novel's hypnotic descent into unreality, as Amoss's pacing mirrors Samantha's psychological unraveling with haunting effectiveness.
