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Bunny Girl Evolution #1
Bunny Girl Evolution 1: A Monster Evolution LitRPG
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?
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?
675 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 1, 2025
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April 4, 2026
I was told this was not as bad as it sounds. Well its ok but I am just not feeling it 10 chapters in and just board. May try again later but this is going to the DNF list for now
December 16, 2025
This was honestly, much better than expected.
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.
3.8 🌟
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.
3.8 🌟
September 9, 2025
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
March 7, 2026
I'll start out by saying that although I've rated this book 1-star, I don't believe that there's nothing redeeming in it. There are a couple of things in the book that I found interesting, and there are some things I'm curious about that have been set up to occur further in the series.
Having said that, I truly did not enjoy my time with this book. I thought there were a lot of weird choices made throughout the book that didn't help with the narrative, and reading the book felt like a CHORE. Overall, my biggest complaint about the book is easily the pacing of the story. It feels a little all over the place, but it's most often just really slow, and it was frankly unenjoyable to read. You can write a slow plot/paced story and have it be good, but something about it has to be compelling or enjoyable enough for the audience to want to stick with it. There are plenty of slice-of-life stories that, in spite of having next to no plot, thrive just based on the relationships between characters, the comedy, or some other shining thing. This story had none of that. The parts that stood out the worst to me in this regard were reading pages of indecisively going back and forth on an issue, just for nothing to really change after it (e.g. ). Even outside of just those specific moments, there's so much downtime, where she's doing things that truly feel like they could not matter less. For example, I would say there's a fairly significant amount of time dedicated to her hunting and training, which feeds into my next complaint...
I think this story would legitimately be better if it didn't include the LitRPG aspects. I enjoy LitRPG, but the feeling I got was that the author doesn't enjoy it, or they find a lot of aspects of typical LitRPG stories to be boring. Like a lot of LitRPG, this is an isekai story, but aside from an offhanded mention of being a college student in the beginning, and besides vaguely referencing her previous life, it's legitimately almost never brought up throughout the story. We've all read isekai stories, and sure it can be a little boring to read the 70th version of "What the heck, where am I? I died? No way! How do I get back to my old life? What about the people/things I'll be leaving behind?" But to skip it entirely seems crazy to me, because in my head now I can't get away from the thought of "Why is this character just so nonchalant about DYING and being REINCARNATED?? They're suddenly in a fantasy world with magic, mystical creatures, , and a video game system narrating at them, so why are they having no reaction to how insane this is?" Moving on from that, the numbers in LitRPGs can sometimes feel a little pointless, especially as the story goes on, but this is the first story I've read where even from the very beginning it felt like all of the numbers are absolutely arbitrary, and have zero impact on the story. Of course, in a meta sense, it's true that the numbers are arbitrary, this is a made up story and they'll do what the author needs them to do. But if they're going to be included in a story (especially if there's going to be recurring stat sheets between chapters) the numbers should be serving some kind of purpose. Ideally they should be giving us a rough idea of how our MC ranks at least compared to what she's been up against so far, or it should serve as a reference to see how far they've grown. Looking at levels we tend to look for those breakpoints, or when the skill levels up we look to see what's changed. But most of that doesn't matter in this book(/series?). We learn that the stats she gains aren't actual stat gains, the stats in her summary are actually more of a stat cap, so we never actually know what her relative power level is. There are experience points, but the author clearly didn't feel like futzing with trying to make the math work narratively, so we're just told that they vaguely exist and the system handles it. Throughout the story our MC is constantly leveling her skills, but her skills often make huge leaps in levels, which already makes it feel like the levels don't matter that much, but then even worse is that there's almost zero difference in the skills between the levels. Between chapter stat sheets you might notice that her magic missile has gained an extra missile, or maybe she's got an extra charge on her dash, but if the narrative can't be bothered to tell/explain this, then why should the audience care about it? And the answer in the case of this book is honestly that they shouldn't. It doesn't matter in this story. Those details are never relevant in this story, and it feels like they were included strictly because this story labels itself as a LitRPG, and as a LitRPG it's expected to have stats and levels. The only reason it mattered at all in this story was for the sake of levels, to lead to the evolutions. Honestly it feels like the evolutions (i.e. new classes for the MC) are the only LitRPG element that the author enjoyed. With so much of the story leaning AWAY from LitRPG elements, though, I think they should've just taken out the LitRPG elements, found a different way of weaving evolutions in, and the story would've been in a much better spot.
Moving on, I thought the main character was inconsistent, or at least wishy washy. For example, she'd be fretting over the idea of having to kill something, and then two chapters later From her nearly pacifist attitude towards the start of the story, she hunts awfully casually with no compunction later in the story. This is true with her attitude towards multiple things in the story, the hunting one is just the first one that jumps to mind.
I didn't feel like there was any emotional depth in any of her connections. For as slow as the story is, you'd think there's plenty of time to be exploring the new relationships she's forging with the people around her, but the story doesn't really do that. We don't see the relationships being formed/deepened, they just happen offpage, between the scenes that really matter, like of her leveling up her skills which will do the exact same thing anyway. The problem is that her relationship with these people is supposed to matter, but it doesn't feel like they do. .
Some miscellaneous complaints(?) I have
Honestly, I'm probably forgetting more of the complaints I had, but my feelings on the book should be relatively clear. There are a lot of things the book did wrong, and precious little that it did right. It's a shame, because there are things that stand out to me from the story (plots and story beats) that could have been good. Unfortunately, though, I feel like the execution was sorely lacking.
Having said that, I truly did not enjoy my time with this book. I thought there were a lot of weird choices made throughout the book that didn't help with the narrative, and reading the book felt like a CHORE. Overall, my biggest complaint about the book is easily the pacing of the story. It feels a little all over the place, but it's most often just really slow, and it was frankly unenjoyable to read. You can write a slow plot/paced story and have it be good, but something about it has to be compelling or enjoyable enough for the audience to want to stick with it. There are plenty of slice-of-life stories that, in spite of having next to no plot, thrive just based on the relationships between characters, the comedy, or some other shining thing. This story had none of that. The parts that stood out the worst to me in this regard were reading pages of indecisively going back and forth on an issue, just for nothing to really change after it (e.g. ). Even outside of just those specific moments, there's so much downtime, where she's doing things that truly feel like they could not matter less. For example, I would say there's a fairly significant amount of time dedicated to her hunting and training, which feeds into my next complaint...
I think this story would legitimately be better if it didn't include the LitRPG aspects. I enjoy LitRPG, but the feeling I got was that the author doesn't enjoy it, or they find a lot of aspects of typical LitRPG stories to be boring. Like a lot of LitRPG, this is an isekai story, but aside from an offhanded mention of being a college student in the beginning, and besides vaguely referencing her previous life, it's legitimately almost never brought up throughout the story. We've all read isekai stories, and sure it can be a little boring to read the 70th version of "What the heck, where am I? I died? No way! How do I get back to my old life? What about the people/things I'll be leaving behind?" But to skip it entirely seems crazy to me, because in my head now I can't get away from the thought of "Why is this character just so nonchalant about DYING and being REINCARNATED?? They're suddenly in a fantasy world with magic, mystical creatures, , and a video game system narrating at them, so why are they having no reaction to how insane this is?" Moving on from that, the numbers in LitRPGs can sometimes feel a little pointless, especially as the story goes on, but this is the first story I've read where even from the very beginning it felt like all of the numbers are absolutely arbitrary, and have zero impact on the story. Of course, in a meta sense, it's true that the numbers are arbitrary, this is a made up story and they'll do what the author needs them to do. But if they're going to be included in a story (especially if there's going to be recurring stat sheets between chapters) the numbers should be serving some kind of purpose. Ideally they should be giving us a rough idea of how our MC ranks at least compared to what she's been up against so far, or it should serve as a reference to see how far they've grown. Looking at levels we tend to look for those breakpoints, or when the skill levels up we look to see what's changed. But most of that doesn't matter in this book(/series?). We learn that the stats she gains aren't actual stat gains, the stats in her summary are actually more of a stat cap, so we never actually know what her relative power level is. There are experience points, but the author clearly didn't feel like futzing with trying to make the math work narratively, so we're just told that they vaguely exist and the system handles it. Throughout the story our MC is constantly leveling her skills, but her skills often make huge leaps in levels, which already makes it feel like the levels don't matter that much, but then even worse is that there's almost zero difference in the skills between the levels. Between chapter stat sheets you might notice that her magic missile has gained an extra missile, or maybe she's got an extra charge on her dash, but if the narrative can't be bothered to tell/explain this, then why should the audience care about it? And the answer in the case of this book is honestly that they shouldn't. It doesn't matter in this story. Those details are never relevant in this story, and it feels like they were included strictly because this story labels itself as a LitRPG, and as a LitRPG it's expected to have stats and levels. The only reason it mattered at all in this story was for the sake of levels, to lead to the evolutions. Honestly it feels like the evolutions (i.e. new classes for the MC) are the only LitRPG element that the author enjoyed. With so much of the story leaning AWAY from LitRPG elements, though, I think they should've just taken out the LitRPG elements, found a different way of weaving evolutions in, and the story would've been in a much better spot.
Moving on, I thought the main character was inconsistent, or at least wishy washy. For example, she'd be fretting over the idea of having to kill something, and then two chapters later From her nearly pacifist attitude towards the start of the story, she hunts awfully casually with no compunction later in the story. This is true with her attitude towards multiple things in the story, the hunting one is just the first one that jumps to mind.
I didn't feel like there was any emotional depth in any of her connections. For as slow as the story is, you'd think there's plenty of time to be exploring the new relationships she's forging with the people around her, but the story doesn't really do that. We don't see the relationships being formed/deepened, they just happen offpage, between the scenes that really matter, like of her leveling up her skills which will do the exact same thing anyway. The problem is that her relationship with these people is supposed to matter, but it doesn't feel like they do. .
Some miscellaneous complaints(?) I have
Honestly, I'm probably forgetting more of the complaints I had, but my feelings on the book should be relatively clear. There are a lot of things the book did wrong, and precious little that it did right. It's a shame, because there are things that stand out to me from the story (plots and story beats) that could have been good. Unfortunately, though, I feel like the execution was sorely lacking.
May 6, 2026
This book illustrates exactly the kind of writing that is difficult for me.
It takes a fun premise and executes it poorly. I think "fun premise" is the only thing good I really have to say about the book, which is unfortunate because I really try to include more things I truly enjoy. I guess the prose is decent? It's a little boring (which I'll get to) but it's grammatically sound, save for a couple typos, and is easy to read.
So, unfortunately this review is going to be full of spoilers. That's the nature of a negative review, I guess. So really, don't read any farther if you want to discover this book for yourself.
I picked this one up because I liked another monster evolution litRPG I recently devoured, and hoped to find something similar with this one. And it started out well! It's an Isekai/portal fantasy where the main character dies and is re-created in this fantasy world. It starts right in the action and it was pretty much fine through... Let's say page 40-ish in the kindle version. Roughly 7%. Then it went off the rails just a little, then it rapidly descended into a bit of a train wreck.
There's a point where the MC, Elise, meets a child named Sophie, who takes Elise home to her family. The unusual thing in the narrative is that the human characters talk, but Elise can't understand them. This would be find if it was something like "____ said something Elise couldn't understand," but instead the author has chosen to type out all the gibberish. For example, "Zbzzl, ybbx jung V sbhaw!" said the girl.
I think this is supposed to be like, a transcription, which I got from the V being capital. I figured it was supposed to be an I. Still, this doesn't look like a language that anyone would speak, and moreover, sometimes pages are filled with it. I had been enjoying the book up until this point and just kinda had an "oh no" moment as I realized this was going to be a common thing.
I probably could have handled it if this was the only thing wrong with the book, because every author has their quirks. But I can honestly say that I wish Elise would have gone on just not understanding the characters because the author doesn't understand how real people talk or the flow of conversation.
I don't know if you've read books before that are more geared toward children and how the language is sort of simplified so it's understandable. That's kinda how the dialogue goes. There's even one point where the MC almost text-book recites a lesson she JUST learned, with no breaks, just straight through. It's hard to provide specific examples because I feel like you have to read everything in situ to get the full picture of it.
And there's huge sections of purely domestic dialogue that really adds nothing to the story but length. None of the characters have any unique voices or quirks, and they pretty much all have exactly the same personality.
I actually didn't mind when a giant wolf came and slaughtered the family who'd taken Elise in. It seemed very real to me, in this world of monsters where the spawns were increasing. The family even intended to leave due to the rising danger. So this part... I guess I thought was decent. It was very sudden and jarring and real, without any time for those who escaped to say goodbye. Elise even had a cool power she used for the first time to trick the wolf.
After she escapes and gets enough levels to evolve, she looks at her options and decides to evolve into a "lesser rabbit fey." And this is super important. The guide she's given absolutely makes this sound like the very worst thing she could pick. Actually there is no really "good" option, but it's made clear that the fey option is terrible, the only advantage to it being that she'll be able to talk.
The one option she DIDN'T pick that I would have found very interesting was the "familiar (rabbit)" option, which would have placed a sort of ticking clock on her to find the little girl that escaped from the wolf, Sophie. And that bond was actually pretty interesting, and my guess is that it would have given her a WAY of speaking (specifically to Sophie) and I was sure she was going to pick it.
She chose the fey.
Which, OK, fine.
But then began the most convoluted, pointless part of a book I've ever read.
She gets stuck in this cavern with a loch ness monster preventing her from leaving, and rather than figure her own way out, suddenly dwarves just pop through the wall.
Dwarves had never been mentioned before. She had never heard them, never wondered about them, was not trying to find them. They just suddenly deus-ex-machina'd their way into this cavern completely unprompted, pointed at Elise, and were like "whoa, you must be the chosen one!"
Except she couldn't understand them because different language. Apparently there's no common language in this world that races who live in close proximity to each other can understand. Oh, except the drow. But only because it was convenient to the plot.
Anyway, these savior dwarves are like "come with us," in sign language. Then they proceed to march her through the streets so everyone can see her and whatnot, then they take Elise right to the king of the dwarves and his advisor who happens to have an orb that can translate anything. Usually I hate those, but in this case, I was like "thank god."
This is where it gets really convoluted.
The dialogue gets really terrible here. Imagine a king speaking like the worst sixth-grader story you've ever read, the king stating things he couldn't possibly know, not one mere thought of how Elise used to be human, no mention to anyone of that fact, apparently the spell everyone ever in an RPG learns (inspect/scan) being a super high-level spell that no one has, and some wish fulfillment about being the most important thing in the room.
And then.
They're discussing how Elise was just a rabbit, but then she evolved. And she's like "yeah I picked the fey option." What followed was a dressing down of all dressing downs, where suddenly no one trusted her (except the king). Now, the dwarves should have had some reasoning skill here along the lines of "so she wasn't a fey, but she chose to become one?" no one asked why. Elise never said she chose the option so she'd be able to talk to people, she never said she chose it because it was the best out of all the available options, and she never thought to mention that she literally came from another world and wasn't familiar with how much the dwarves hated fey. There was no attempt at mitigation.
Also bonus:
"I'm not a spy!"
"That's just what a spy would say!"
Later, the king asks Elise if she'd like to stay or leave. He specifically tells her that no one would try to kill her, since she's the chosen one (this will be important later) and then really makes no argument that I personally found appealing to get her to stay. She really wanted to leave, but he offered her the ability to get stronger, even though she was really doing just fine on her own. Some old lady teaches her the language (Which... It wasn't super fun to read about the first time, and now I had to read about it again, in more detail), and a warrior teaches her how to manage her mana better.
Here you will learn that there are two dwarves named Jona and Jonas, who are apparently unrelated. It's just a fun little tidbit of name confusion thrown in as a bonus.
I am probably running out of room for this review, so I'll skip ahead just a little because what follows for near 100 pages is a whole lot of almost nothing.
There is a point where Elise decides to broker peace between the dwarves and the drow, and rather than just make like, a procession out of the city with all his guards and whatnot, the king decides to sneak the drow out with Elise. Now, the king easily had the power to strongarm his way to whatever border the dwarves shared with the drow, but apparently every citizen in this kingdom knows all about the king's business, and a whole bunch of dwarves decided they were going to become vigilantes and attack random carts that were on missions from the king. They killed one of the drow, and Elise escaped. But instead of leaving like she wanted to, she went right back to the king.
And this is the point I decided to stop reading. 42%. I couldn't get around how irritated I was at nearly everything.
EDIT: I ended up finishing the book and I am raising my rating to two stars. There was one point that was actually pretty good. The rest of the review still stands.
It takes a fun premise and executes it poorly. I think "fun premise" is the only thing good I really have to say about the book, which is unfortunate because I really try to include more things I truly enjoy. I guess the prose is decent? It's a little boring (which I'll get to) but it's grammatically sound, save for a couple typos, and is easy to read.
So, unfortunately this review is going to be full of spoilers. That's the nature of a negative review, I guess. So really, don't read any farther if you want to discover this book for yourself.
I picked this one up because I liked another monster evolution litRPG I recently devoured, and hoped to find something similar with this one. And it started out well! It's an Isekai/portal fantasy where the main character dies and is re-created in this fantasy world. It starts right in the action and it was pretty much fine through... Let's say page 40-ish in the kindle version. Roughly 7%. Then it went off the rails just a little, then it rapidly descended into a bit of a train wreck.
There's a point where the MC, Elise, meets a child named Sophie, who takes Elise home to her family. The unusual thing in the narrative is that the human characters talk, but Elise can't understand them. This would be find if it was something like "____ said something Elise couldn't understand," but instead the author has chosen to type out all the gibberish. For example, "Zbzzl, ybbx jung V sbhaw!" said the girl.
I think this is supposed to be like, a transcription, which I got from the V being capital. I figured it was supposed to be an I. Still, this doesn't look like a language that anyone would speak, and moreover, sometimes pages are filled with it. I had been enjoying the book up until this point and just kinda had an "oh no" moment as I realized this was going to be a common thing.
I probably could have handled it if this was the only thing wrong with the book, because every author has their quirks. But I can honestly say that I wish Elise would have gone on just not understanding the characters because the author doesn't understand how real people talk or the flow of conversation.
I don't know if you've read books before that are more geared toward children and how the language is sort of simplified so it's understandable. That's kinda how the dialogue goes. There's even one point where the MC almost text-book recites a lesson she JUST learned, with no breaks, just straight through. It's hard to provide specific examples because I feel like you have to read everything in situ to get the full picture of it.
And there's huge sections of purely domestic dialogue that really adds nothing to the story but length. None of the characters have any unique voices or quirks, and they pretty much all have exactly the same personality.
I actually didn't mind when a giant wolf came and slaughtered the family who'd taken Elise in. It seemed very real to me, in this world of monsters where the spawns were increasing. The family even intended to leave due to the rising danger. So this part... I guess I thought was decent. It was very sudden and jarring and real, without any time for those who escaped to say goodbye. Elise even had a cool power she used for the first time to trick the wolf.
After she escapes and gets enough levels to evolve, she looks at her options and decides to evolve into a "lesser rabbit fey." And this is super important. The guide she's given absolutely makes this sound like the very worst thing she could pick. Actually there is no really "good" option, but it's made clear that the fey option is terrible, the only advantage to it being that she'll be able to talk.
The one option she DIDN'T pick that I would have found very interesting was the "familiar (rabbit)" option, which would have placed a sort of ticking clock on her to find the little girl that escaped from the wolf, Sophie. And that bond was actually pretty interesting, and my guess is that it would have given her a WAY of speaking (specifically to Sophie) and I was sure she was going to pick it.
She chose the fey.
Which, OK, fine.
But then began the most convoluted, pointless part of a book I've ever read.
She gets stuck in this cavern with a loch ness monster preventing her from leaving, and rather than figure her own way out, suddenly dwarves just pop through the wall.
Dwarves had never been mentioned before. She had never heard them, never wondered about them, was not trying to find them. They just suddenly deus-ex-machina'd their way into this cavern completely unprompted, pointed at Elise, and were like "whoa, you must be the chosen one!"
Except she couldn't understand them because different language. Apparently there's no common language in this world that races who live in close proximity to each other can understand. Oh, except the drow. But only because it was convenient to the plot.
Anyway, these savior dwarves are like "come with us," in sign language. Then they proceed to march her through the streets so everyone can see her and whatnot, then they take Elise right to the king of the dwarves and his advisor who happens to have an orb that can translate anything. Usually I hate those, but in this case, I was like "thank god."
This is where it gets really convoluted.
The dialogue gets really terrible here. Imagine a king speaking like the worst sixth-grader story you've ever read, the king stating things he couldn't possibly know, not one mere thought of how Elise used to be human, no mention to anyone of that fact, apparently the spell everyone ever in an RPG learns (inspect/scan) being a super high-level spell that no one has, and some wish fulfillment about being the most important thing in the room.
And then.
They're discussing how Elise was just a rabbit, but then she evolved. And she's like "yeah I picked the fey option." What followed was a dressing down of all dressing downs, where suddenly no one trusted her (except the king). Now, the dwarves should have had some reasoning skill here along the lines of "so she wasn't a fey, but she chose to become one?" no one asked why. Elise never said she chose the option so she'd be able to talk to people, she never said she chose it because it was the best out of all the available options, and she never thought to mention that she literally came from another world and wasn't familiar with how much the dwarves hated fey. There was no attempt at mitigation.
Also bonus:
"I'm not a spy!"
"That's just what a spy would say!"
Later, the king asks Elise if she'd like to stay or leave. He specifically tells her that no one would try to kill her, since she's the chosen one (this will be important later) and then really makes no argument that I personally found appealing to get her to stay. She really wanted to leave, but he offered her the ability to get stronger, even though she was really doing just fine on her own. Some old lady teaches her the language (Which... It wasn't super fun to read about the first time, and now I had to read about it again, in more detail), and a warrior teaches her how to manage her mana better.
Here you will learn that there are two dwarves named Jona and Jonas, who are apparently unrelated. It's just a fun little tidbit of name confusion thrown in as a bonus.
I am probably running out of room for this review, so I'll skip ahead just a little because what follows for near 100 pages is a whole lot of almost nothing.
There is a point where Elise decides to broker peace between the dwarves and the drow, and rather than just make like, a procession out of the city with all his guards and whatnot, the king decides to sneak the drow out with Elise. Now, the king easily had the power to strongarm his way to whatever border the dwarves shared with the drow, but apparently every citizen in this kingdom knows all about the king's business, and a whole bunch of dwarves decided they were going to become vigilantes and attack random carts that were on missions from the king. They killed one of the drow, and Elise escaped. But instead of leaving like she wanted to, she went right back to the king.
And this is the point I decided to stop reading. 42%. I couldn't get around how irritated I was at nearly everything.
EDIT: I ended up finishing the book and I am raising my rating to two stars. There was one point that was actually pretty good. The rest of the review still stands.
July 14, 2025
This was fine, but it really dragged once the whole drow/dwarf plot came in. Will not be continuing.
September 6, 2025
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.
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.
September 25, 2025
I thought it was OK-ish.
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.
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.
October 8, 2025
An Annoying and Disappointing Read
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.
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.
August 19, 2025
Seriously a good book.
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.
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.
July 11, 2025
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
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
March 15, 2026
I love this story. I had no idea I would be so receptive, but through fabulous characters, world, and progressions, it really captured my fancy. Elise and King Hallbjorn are my favorite characters, with Greta a highly admired supporting character. I appreciated the nuanced morality issues that Elise wrestles with. I enjoyed and thought effective the use of incomprehensible languages early on. Clever way to use them! I look forward to the next installment.
A pity about the title. Elise's Evolution would have been okay.
A pity about the title. Elise's Evolution would have been okay.
May 7, 2026
fun
Woman wakes up as a monster bunny. She strives to evolve. She faces a warg. Gets adopted as a pet, and then loses her new family. She meets dwarves and gets embroiled in their prophecies and war with the elves. She investigates and uncovers the truth of the war and its cause. She defeats the person behind it all. With the war over she heads out into the world to seek her lost adoptive family. Book ends
A fun story with intrigue and ups and downs. Steady pace. Great narrator. Interesting world. Please enjoy.
Woman wakes up as a monster bunny. She strives to evolve. She faces a warg. Gets adopted as a pet, and then loses her new family. She meets dwarves and gets embroiled in their prophecies and war with the elves. She investigates and uncovers the truth of the war and its cause. She defeats the person behind it all. With the war over she heads out into the world to seek her lost adoptive family. Book ends
A fun story with intrigue and ups and downs. Steady pace. Great narrator. Interesting world. Please enjoy.
July 14, 2025
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
September 15, 2025
A surprisingly fun adventure.
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.
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.
November 6, 2025
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.
DNF 47%
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.
DNF 47%
July 18, 2025
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.
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.
August 15, 2025
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.
May 10, 2026
Good but
The story line works even if it can be a bit disjointed. The world view is a bit different and develops slowly. There are statistics but it’s not too overpowering. The main character is interesting and some of the interactions work well. The time shifts are explanatory but don’t translate.
The story line works even if it can be a bit disjointed. The world view is a bit different and develops slowly. There are statistics but it’s not too overpowering. The main character is interesting and some of the interactions work well. The time shifts are explanatory but don’t translate.
June 7, 2025
Am I a snob, or spoiled by like Wandering Inn and Worm and Practical Guide and stuff or is everything on RoyalRoad derivative and mediocre
book 2 is there, read that as well 7-8.06.2025, book 1s gonna be stubbed soon
it's cute that he thinks 7 works is reading a lot :P
book 2 is there, read that as well 7-8.06.2025, book 1s gonna be stubbed soon
it's cute that he thinks 7 works is reading a lot :P
July 9, 2025
Very good
This book was a lot of fun. Be warned, though. There are parts that will hit you right in the feels.
Do yourself a favor, pick up this book, and then go read more on RR.
Highly reccomnded.
This book was a lot of fun. Be warned, though. There are parts that will hit you right in the feels.
Do yourself a favor, pick up this book, and then go read more on RR.
Highly reccomnded.
November 16, 2025
Interesting
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.
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.
February 21, 2026
MC is frequently weak/impotent at critical times requiring several near "Deus Ex Machina" level interventions to save them (or requiring them to flee / back down)
Book is nearly entirely Fantasy Factional Politicking with a light sprinkling of LitRPG on top
Book is nearly entirely Fantasy Factional Politicking with a light sprinkling of LitRPG on top
April 4, 2026
The concept of rebirth as a rabbit was intriguing, but was eager for Elise to gain more humanlike functionality. I also found parts of the story overlong, especially when dealing with the politics between the dwarves and the drow. I will continue to book 2.
April 8, 2026
It was alright. Not nearly as interesting as it could have been and for how long it was the pacing was rather slow. However, it has a plot, a build up, and a climax, and can be listened to or read on its own and doesn’t NEED a second book to be enjoyed.
Average for its genre.
Average for its genre.
May 17, 2026
Trying to read this through an allergy storm probably didn't help my take on it, which was, "This seems weirdly disjointed." Pretty sure the disjointed was *me* all along, but I definitely enjoyed the bits where I wasn't reading with my brain scattered across three continents.
July 10, 2025
eh.. not bad.. way better than i could do lol
July 11, 2025
really good book
This is the first of this type of genre that I’ve really enjoyed and read all the way through. Can’t wait for book 2!?!?!
This is the first of this type of genre that I’ve really enjoyed and read all the way through. Can’t wait for book 2!?!?!
August 1, 2025
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.
October 13, 2025
Enjoyed the world building.
Classic level up systems... however very character driven story, not just about the fighting.
Looking forward to see where she decides to go from here now that she can take a more active part in the human world.
spoiler... kinda disappointed that the wolf was in fact an evil monster. ha
Classic level up systems... however very character driven story, not just about the fighting.
Looking forward to see where she decides to go from here now that she can take a more active part in the human world.
spoiler... kinda disappointed that the wolf was in fact an evil monster. ha
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