Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart

438 reviews

mazzie's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, and Alcohol

reecemar22's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Homophobia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Violence

viccctk's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.25

A hard, emotional read with some really difficult scenes. Some beautiful parts about being in love amongst all the brutal suffering.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Religious bigotry, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Animal death, and Abortion

ellagrady's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Murder, and Outing

jennifersmind's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, and Sexual assault

emilybr's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

Heart wrenching, the characters are wonderfully complex and the book managed to tell such an intricate story in under 400 pages. It is not a joyful story, the events Mungo and those around him go through are horrific but so incredibly believable, once i started reading i couldn’t stop. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Racism, Sexual content, Violence, and Religious bigotry

jdrummond's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

It took me a bit to get into this, but once the story kicked in, it’s hard to forget Mungo Hamilton and James Jameson. I hope they, and those like them, found their place in the world.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Outing, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cancer, Cursing, and Classism

charliedon's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

A love story but not a romance book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Hate crime, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Abortion

raccoonroost's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

for how much mungo went through, not giving him an actual happy ending and only making it open ended is pissing me off... i cant give it a 5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Death, Rape, and Violence

ellymc's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Abortion, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail