ENG: Avad, Mona-Zaychik

Samantha Heather McKay is a student in a prestigious creative writing master’s program at Warren University. She feels like an outsider because she can’t stand her classmates—a group of rich, prim girls who call each other “Bunnies.” They go everywhere together, hugging and speaking in sugary voices.

But everything changes when Samantha suddenly receives an invitation to their “Bachelorette Party.” She dives into their world and discovers that behind the pink glamour and tea parties lie bloody magical rituals in which the girls literally “create” ideal men from their fantasies (and not just from them).

Key themes:

Female friendship and toxicity: The book explores the line between closeness and the group’s absorption of an individual’s identity.

Creative torment: A satire on the modern academic community and the painful process of writing.

Loss of reality: The reader is constantly left wondering: is what is happening real black magic, or the product of the protagonist’s twisted imagination?