We Love You, Bunny
by Mona Awad· 2025
Sam's former frenemies kidnap her whilst she's on a book tour to set the record straight about how they've been portrayed on the page. A dark novel set in the Bunny-verse.
In the novel Bunny, Samantha Heather Mackey, a lonely outsider student at a highly selective MFA program in New England, was first ostracised and then seduced by a clique of her saccharine sweet, rich girl cohort (who call one another ‘Bunny’). An invitation to the Bunnies’ Smut Salon leads Samantha down a dark rabbit hole into the violently surreal world of their off-campus Workshops where monstrous creations are conjured with wondrous yet deadly consequences.
When We Love You, Bunny opens, Sam has just published her first novel. But at a New England stop on her book tour, her one-time frenemies, furious at the way they’ve been portrayed, kidnap her. Now a captive audience, it’s her turn to hear the Bunnies’ side of the story. One by one, they take turns holding the axe, and recount the birth throes of their unholy alliance, their discovery of their unusual creative powers — and the phantasmagoric adventure of conjuring their first creation. With a bound and gagged Sam, the story explores the heart of dark academia: a fairy tale slasher that explores the wonder and horror of creation itself, as well as the transformative powers of love and friendship. Frankenstein by way of Heathers, We Love You, Bunny is a prequel, a sequel, and a standalone novel.
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Sam's former frenemies kidnap her whilst she's on a book tour to set the record straight about how they've been portrayed on the page. A dark novel set in the Bunny-verse. In the novel Bunny, Samantha Heather Mackey, a lonely outsider student at a highly selective MFA program in New England, was first ostracised and then seduced by a clique of her saccharine sweet, rich girl cohort (who call one another ‘Bunny’). An invitation to the Bunnies’ Smut Salon leads Samantha down a dark rabbit hole into the violently surreal world of their off-campus Workshops where monstrous creations are conjured with wondrous yet deadly consequences. When We Love You, Bunny opens, Sam has just published her first novel. But at a New England stop on her book tour, her one-time frenemies, furious at the way they’ve been portrayed, kidnap her. Now a captive audience, it’s her turn to hear the Bunnies’ side of the story. One by one, they take turns holding the axe, and recount the birth throes of their unholy alliance, their discovery of their unusual creative powers — and the phantasmagoric adventure of conjuring their first creation. With a bound and gagged Sam, the story explores the heart of dark academia: a fairy tale slasher that explores the wonder and horror of creation itself, as well as the transformative powers of love and friendship. Frankenstein by way of Heathers, We Love You, Bunny is a prequel, a sequel, and a standalone novel.