Our Take

Rabbits arrives with an unusual advantage: it's built on the world of Terry Miles's hit podcast of the same name, which means the mythology here already has a devoted following before the first page. But Miles has structured the novel as a true standalone, and it works whether or not you've ever listened to an episode. The book's real hook is its central conceit — that reality itself can be hacked through pattern recognition, coincidence, and numerology — and Miles leans into that paranoia-inducing atmosphere hard, packing the story with alternate reality game culture, conspiracy theory logic, and a persistent sense that something is watching. Critics have compared it to Ready Player One for its pop-culture density and to Haruki Murakami for its surreal, reality-bending slipperiness, and both comparisons land: this is a technothriller that never fully explains itself, trusting readers to sit with ambiguity rather than resolve every thread. That won't work for every reader — some will find the constant escalation exhausting rather than immersive — but for anyone who wants a mystery that makes them second-guess the number on their own microwave clock, this is a wild, unsettling ride.