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Bunny begins with an outcast main protagonist in a MFA program who's infuriated by her twee fellow seminar I was intrigued by the sound of We Love You, Bunny , the sequel to Mona Awad's novel Bunny , so I went The Bunnies are vapid, petty, entitled, and aggressively manipulative. A couple of scenes are horrifying, some are darkly hilarious, and Awad clearly delights in the absurd I listened to Bunny  as a library audiobook.

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Shipstead's varied stories range from funny with an edge to darkly haunting. In You Have a Friend in 10A, Maggie Shipstead offers gripping, sometimes haunting, sometimes darkly funny

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Deanna Raybourn The first installment of Deanna Raybourn's Killers of a Certain Age series was a fun, darkly funny, feminist story about a retiring female team of elite assassins.

How to Lose Your Mother is a poignant, sharp, darkly funny memoir of a challenging, volatile relationship

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Kuang I loved the dark--and often darkly funny--journey of Cambridge postgraduate magick students Alice This is a clever, strange, dark, and often darkly funny fantasy. Kingfisher This was dark, sometimes wryly funny, haunting, and intriguing, and the resolutions to the The novel is sometimes funny, and it's consistently suspenseful and character-driven. In an extreme version of keeping a stiff upper lip, they sometimes carry on wryly funny conversations

Hell Bent is clever and sometimes darkly funny, yet a somber undertone runs throughout it.

developer associated with their own retirement community is murdered, and other deaths follow, this sharp, funny Kills Well with Others (Killers of a Certain Age #2) by Deanna Raybourn Killers of a Certain Age  was darkly funny, action-packed, feminist, and friend-focused. The first installment of Deanna Raybourn's Killers of a Certain Age series was a fun, darkly funny, feminist

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In this satisfying final book in the trilogy, Black's characters show darkly funny humor and trade biting As always, Black's characters show darkly funny humor and trade biting remarks, and creatures of all

Funny Story is the perfect rom-com read. Henry offers funny banter that made me laugh, some steamy moments, and a sweet love story. I listened to Funny Story as an audiobook (narrated by the fantastic Julia Whelan) courtesy of Libro.fm

Gideon’s speech is modern and biting, there are darkly funny moments, and the friendships and loyalty Gideon the Ninth was unlike any fantasy novel I’ve read—Gideon’s speech is modern and biting, there are darkly funny moments, and the friendships and loyalty that develop seem impossible, yet resonate in a lovely

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connection--I was surprised by how much, and by how touching it felt to me--whereas Finley Donovan was darkly funny.

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