Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart

439 reviews

bethbrown_267's review against another edition

dark emotional

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Violence

sabas03's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

5.0

Damn. Amazing book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Violence

Moderate: Alcoholism and Death

bugslutt's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Homophobia

mai_books27's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-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

This book took me by the throat and broke my heart and i still couldn't put it down. The storytelling is atmospheric and phenomenal, the characters are so tangible and human. I cannot recommend this book enough, but due to the weight of the subject matter it's one you have to pick up in your own time. A new favorite, for sure. Violen  but soft and loving, this book is worth every penny. Please read it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Murder, Outing, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

pierrojenesais's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

“Young Mungo” creates a great depiction of how toxic masculinity treats young boys in society. My love for Mungo is deeper than a fictional character should be able to make me feel. But his love and suffering feels too real and I can’t help it. He will surely haunt my mind for a long time.
Also this book stomped on my heart so many times I felt like it couldn’t get worse. It did. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Death, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Domestic abuse, and Abortion

viareadsbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Hate crime, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

bookish_hollyx's review

challenging dark sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, and Violence

jaiari12's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Abortion, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

brianna_reading5's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.25

a very emotional and dark read (check tw's before reading!) that also could be really beautiful at times. the prose were stunning, and the characters were very complex and interesting, but the pacing just bothered me a bit. i found it to be extremely slow with nothing going on up until the 50% mark, then so much begins to happen and it feels like the story is really starting, then the ending feels really fast - like we barely have time to process all of the super important things that just happened! it's not that the ending lacks depth or meaning - it feels gratifying although ambiguous at the same time - it just feels very fast. i still really liked it, but it's not for everyone and it isn't perfect!

i can't stop thinking about this quote though:

“Mungo’s capacity for love frustrated her. His loving wasn’t selflessness; he simply could not help it. Mo-Maw needed so little and he produced so much. So that it all seemed a horrible waste. It was a harvest no one seeded, and it blossomed from a vine no one tended. It should have withered years ago. Yet Mungo had all this love to give and it lay about him like ripened fruit and nobody bothered to gather it up."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Homophobia, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Abortion

johannamrr's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

3.0

first of all, this book needs a fucking content warning jesus christ
anywayyy, the pacing was a bit off for the first 150 pages in my opinion bc nothing happened and it was getting slightly boring imo 
the writing is great though it‘s just the plot (and how graphic it is) that I struggled with
also, this book is advertised in such a weird way?? like people need to start making it clear when a book is as violent as this one is because they really didn‘t and I don‘t like when stuff like this is being jumped on me (my bad for not looking up the content warnings first, i guess)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Abortion, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail