She's a bunny. She's a girl. And she's going to evolve.
Elise was always made fun of for her big ears and buck teeth. She tried her best to overcome the mockery, only to work herself to death and wake up as... a big-eared, buck-toothed rabbit.
Now, with nothing but an almost worthless System Assistant to help her, she needs to survive in a world full of magic and monsters. On top of all that, for some reason she's been given the ominous [Mark of Fate] skill. She has no idea what it does, but things keep happening to her, most of them unpleasant. From little slimes to giant wolves, everything seems to want her dead, and in her efforts to escape them, she winds up in a complicated situation that she is in no way qualified to resolve.
Can she navigate this new world that seems to have it out for her specifically?
TL; DR: A litRPG more focused on morality and character than stats and levels means an odd premise and awkward protagonist flourishes in spite of pacing.
It’s got a weird title that doesn’t really do the story justice, but it gets people’s attention I suppose. The basic premise is “girl gets turned into rabbit and transported to fantasy world.” It’s not hard to figure out what she may or may not have to face, but weirdly enough, I didn’t see where it was going until about a quarter through. It doesn’t go where the book is seeming to lead you, and that’s ok, it does a nice job with what it does have.
Characters: I actually really enjoyed Elise; some people struggled with the idea that she was indecisive and contemplating the effects of her actions too much, but it felt honestly more real than a lot of the other litRPGs I read. Who wouldn’t be questioning how every move they made would possibly change the course of their destiny or the world if a System plucked you out of your world and into another, all while telling you that you were important? The other characters were a positive as well. Walter and Freddie grew on me, though I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing. Greta was great, though a little repetitive. Amelia was engaging. It was a good, diverse group of characters, so I was happy.
Setting: It’s hard to make fantasy worlds like this unique, but I think the uniqueness was more just how much was included in this book. I’m surprised at how much I enjoyed the little details that seemed to make the whole thing click.
Story: Pretty solid, though sometimes I questioned the motivations of various individuals, as well as the pacing. Sometimes it was just…too slow, too repetitive, and I found myself wanting to fast forward. Soundbooth theater was excellent as always, but at some points, it did get kind of awkward.
Writing: Again, pacing, but otherwise well-thought through and enjoyable.
I’m honestly a little disappointed that the next book isn’t available on audible yet, but am hopeful I’ll get it soon. Plus, the this book comes out in less than a month, so we’re in great shape.
Super good, pleasantly surprised. What an ending. Very excited for the next one. Maybe someday Elise will panic and overthink slightly less! Probably not, but it's nice to dream
A human woman ends up inexplicably in the body of a rabbit in a game world. At first the story is just about surviving, since she's just a rabbit with no particular abilities. As the story progresses, she gains levels and evolves into various magical rabbit variants.
Unlike most LitRPG books, this isn't really a power fantasy. Yes, Elise does get more powerful as time goes on, but it's largely about her relationships with people around her. First a human / elf family that adopts her, later a city of dwarves and a city of Drow that are at war for no good reason.
The book does indulge now and then in typical LitRPG tropes of Elise killing things and gaining experience points, but that's rather uninteresting, and the book would be better off without it. Frankly it could have stripped out almost all the LitRPG elements and it would be a better book. Particularly things like chapters that are nothing but dumps of Elise's current stats, which I simply did not care about.
It's not a bad book, but it's also pretty simple. I could summarize the plot in a paragraph or two, though not without spoilers. There's a Deus Ex Machina resolution about 90% of the way through the book that isn't really adequately explained, though I get the impression we might learn the "why" of that in a later book, eventually, so I don't object to that as much as I usually would.
I didn't hate it, but I didn't find it memorable either. I might read the sequel when it comes out, but I won't care much if I never do.
Unusual for me I have quit reading this book only 30% through it. Mainly from annoyance at the the Author's lazy cop-out for writing long conversations in foreign languages which the Main Character narrator doesn't understand. These long conversations are actually written in a 13 shift Caesar Code for the human/elven family. Later when the MC meets dwarves the dwarven language is written in 4 shift Caesar Code.
I figured out them code schemes, but if an author wants to represent a foreign language — actually make a constructed language to write in. The code scheme is just annoying to even look at.
I wanted to like this story. The plot, what I could see developing in the first 30% of the book, looked promising. As did the world building, character development, and pacing; but I'm not going to try to decipher long blocks of coded conversation.
Take away the isekai and the fantasy aspects and this would still be a great book. It's very much character driven. It kept taking unexpected turns. Leaves you guessing on many aspects then explains it masterfully in flash backs and memories.
This not your typical overpowered isekai story. I also liked that the characters stats are in their own separate chapters and easily skipped.
I would say the only part that annoyed me is the character trying to learn language. As realistic as it is to try to learn a language there's a reason most sci-fi and fantasy have some kind of convenient plot device for translation.
The pacing is weird. It starts with her literally running for her life but then turns slow and domestic. She doesn't even fight that much, just lucks on a few strong opponents that bring her straight to evolution. It appears she will need to bring peace and unite everyone or something, there's a lot of politics involved.
At first I was surprised, and a bit annoyed, at the foreign language writing but then I discovered it's actually a cipher and can be translated. I don't like the implication that the Grays habitually hunt rabbits but she gets to stay as a pet because she's white and pretty.
I didn't want to like the lit genre. Dungeon crawler Carl and Donut changed my mind and I devoured all available books.
Bunny girl continues my fascination with this genre. This story is even more gripping and I couldn't put it down.
I like the morality discussions the main character has w herself. I like the character developments. Main, NPCs, antagonists and protagonist. I enjoyed the world building: geography and history
I cannot wait for book 2 and to see what else 'Beddy the mad' cooks up
I really want to like this but the MC'S scared 😱 passive overthinking everything is annoying and bunny 🐰 that everything wants to eat hopefully she will become vicious and changes but she was like this when she was a human omg this idiot thinks 🤔 she can be a pacifist and not kill things omg why is she so stupid she's in the forest can't communicate with others she's a TASTY RABBIT i don't understand how she thinks she can level up without killing things. Uggg
I wasn't sure which direction this book would go for me. My interest was piqued by the book's synopsis. Yet at the same time I was wary. Thankfully I found the story to be quite enjoyable. The characters were interesting/mysterious and the story held plenty of intrigue to keep me reading. My only real complaint was that the story got a bit slow/dragged at some points.
Really annoying garbled conversations constantly from the MC "not understanding" some language. There is A LOT of garbled conversation. Like many many many pages where you can't understand what is happening without trying to fill in the blank endlessly.
Lots of dumb politics.
Lots of running from fights and digging around endlessly.
I ended up skim reading a gigantic portion of the book, because only some parts with Humans is interesting, and the rest is just trash.
I somehow read this book in 2 days flat, given it's length, I must have enjoyed it. I really enjoyed the 1st third (or whatever it was), 5 stars. But the parts with the Dwarves/Drow did drag a bit. Not terrible, just not as great. It picks up again as that situation moves towards a resolution. Looking forward to the next book.
This never feels like it has a solid direction. The things happening are so random. It never feels like a single story. Once the main character meets the two main groups, they are all just terrible characters. A lot of wasted effort with no character progression to the only good person, the titular bunny girl.
Interesting enough to finish, but frustratingly long. The author desperately needs an editor who could advise regarding repetition and concision. Would have been a great read at half the length, as it was it almost pushed me to DNF.
I really like the ideas and the world here but the pacing and the length was a bit too long for me. I found myself skimming a few places because it was a lot of repetition.