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, a caustic art school dropout, in the process. 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 are often found entangled in a group hug so tight they become one. Like building someone up so perfectly in your head, all their beautiful little flaws and quirks, only to wake up one day and realize they were never there at all.About the Book 'Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. Overall I found the true horror here in the intricacies of female friendships, and the devastation those bonds can lead to. I would never classify this book as horror myself, but things *do* get gnarly. (And I mean that as a compliment.) It’s so bizarre and fun, like if Heathers or Mean Girls were set at an über exclusive college…and involved a little bit of supernatural, Frankenstein-esque magic. But when they invite her into their darkly sparkly little world, things veer towards the monstrous.Īwad’s writing constantly made me feel like I was standing on ever-shifting ground, never totally and 100% sure of my surroundings. If you haven’t read it, here’s a brief synopsis: Samantha Heather Mackey is an outsider in her small-but-competitive MFA program at a New England university, particularly among a clique of unbearably twee rich girls in her class who call each other 'Bunny,' and seem to move and speak as one. And gruesome? And twisted? And freaky? And hilarious? All of the above.

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