Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart

438 reviews

emmaura's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated

Struggling to give a rating. This book is incredibly violent and miserable and I didnt enjoy reading most of it, but having finished it I do really the value of having read it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Homophobia, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, and Abandonment

Moderate: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Abortion, and Death of parent

Minor: Drug use and Classism

molly99's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Violence

Moderate: Homophobia, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, and Abandonment

Minor: Abortion and Death of parent

luca_looselyreads's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Rape, Sexual violence, and Violence

6loodbank's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

5.0

I can't get over this book. It's been a yesr since I read it, and I can't seem to shake it from me. I bawled my eyes out reading it. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Hate crime, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Violence, Murder, and Outing

james92's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

Great book. Some of the story felt like a repeat of the authors previous book and so felt repetitive at parts. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Violence

pikkumarja's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.5

As a stand-alone, this is a great book but as a part of the literature and queer books I find it sad that gay men are always characters in sad, hopeless stories (this was not totally hopeless but mainly hopeless). The story made me sad and angry. I added tons of content warnings in this review and I think that tells you something.

The writing was dark, detailed and disgusting - loved it! Finnish translation was amazing too!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Blood, and Police brutality

Minor: Abortion

suzzzzy's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Homophobia, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, and Violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Xenophobia, and Murder

iuenal's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

5.0

My heart broke for Mungo, looooved the writing style, the switch between the differential characters narratives is well done, was James even real? Maybe he and therefore his relationship with Mungo was just an illusion for Mungo that he created to escape from his reality which is cruelty, aggression, brutality and difficult/horrible family dynamic 

I liked the open ending. I would looove a 2nd part though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Violence

elizabethreadss's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Pedophilia, Rape, and Violence

jumart's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Abortion, Murder, Outing, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail