Point of View

The novel is narrated from the first person perspective in the present tense by protagonist Samantha Heather Mackey, a student in the MFA fiction writing program at fictional Warren University, an elite ivy league school on the East Coast. Samantha considers herself a loner and an outcast at Warren, and she regards her peers with contempt, in particular the group of wealthy and pretentious girls in her workshop class she collectively calls the “Bunnies” because of their pet name for each other. Samantha herself had no friends until she met Ava, a dropout from the nearby art college, with whom she quickly formed an intense bond. However, when the Bunnies invite Samantha to join their clique, which turns out to be a witchy conjuring circle, Samantha finds her entire identity and sense of self commandeered.

Samantha's narration briefly takes a sharp turn at the beginning...