Spider Bunny by Carlton Mellick IIIMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
On the surface, Spider Bunny is an amazingly well told horror novel about four friends trapped inside an 80's children's cereal commercial. In the macabre world, you have two choices. One. you eat Bunny Berry's cereal and earn a permanent seat at the kitchen table, trapped forever as a horrid 3D Claymation effigy of your human self. Two, Berry Bunny catches you and you become the cereal in the bowl the kids at the table beg to eat. There is a third choice, kill Berry Bunny, but you don't wait to do that, you really don't.
There's a whole lot more going on in this book than just a great, scary read. It also works as a cautionary tale for using television as an electronic babysitter. It works as a send up of rabid consumerism where all that matters is what you want, not what you have.
What really works for me, what hit me the hardest, is how the story is a metaphor for toxic relationships. The main protagonist, Pete, is so in love with his girlfriend he allows her to use him in so many horrible ways that it breaks him down and the real him is consumed by his partner that there is no trace of his former self.
Spider Bunny provides plenty of proof that Mellick III is still at the top of his game and shows no signs of letting up any time soon.
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