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Unge Mungo

Douglas Stuart

4.38 AVERAGE

mrprfectlyfn's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

roldale's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Maybe it's because of when I read this, but this book has effectively left an imprint on me that I will never be able to forget or move on from. I don't know if I will ever be capable of reading this book again, I do want to go through and collect my favorite quotes.

Finding myself frustrated with the way that this story is just available for all, including people who won't be as affected by the themes and have a lack understanding of the impact. Also carrying the grief of recognition that this is considered a coming of age story because it's queer...meanwhile this would be a horror story if it weren't queer.

Beautifully written, structured perfectly in a way that underlines the themes and narrative points of the book, and helps to define the pace. Can be slow to start, was difficult to adjust to. Took me forever to finish, simply because of how dark, and how depressing this story gets and can become. I love Mungo dearly, and as a character I will carry him in my heart forever.

Content Warnings

isaisaisameh's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

mwroyal's review against another edition

5.0

Yet another amazing book from Douglas Stuart. Beautiful and gut-wrenching at the same time. I couldn’t put it down.

j_lia's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

saandragms's review against another edition

4.0

“Idiota. Débil. Mentiroso. Maricón. Cobarde.
Chulo. Cabrón.”
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dsend's review against another edition

1.0

I think it’s far beyond time that books that are labeled as “Queer Literature” stop focusing so heavy on S.A. and r***. There is so much beauty and depth to the queer community beyond sexual trauma, and the critical focus on this is immensely weird. Why is it that a community of (mostly straight) critics and readers would praise a book about gay trauma? Why is the literary world obsessed with watching gay people suffer?