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Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart

301 reviews

chriswright39's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense 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

4.0

My only slight issue was that I felt it covered some of the ground of ‘Shuggie Bain”. Powerful and emotional, all the same.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence

worldwidewebb's review

dark emotional sad tense 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

4.25

Beautifully written, but incredibly difficult to read. I wanted to cry, I wanted to throw up, and I wanted to throw the book away and not finish it. Gorgeous, shattering glance into breaking norms in a world of poverty and violence. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Rape, Violence, and Sexual violence

hanhantap's review against another edition

slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Physical abuse, Homophobia, Violence, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Hate crime, Pedophilia, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Ableism, Rape, Abortion, and Classism

Minor: Drug use

brittonmc1221's review

dark emotional reflective sad

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Outing, Alcoholism, Blood, Death, Drug use, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Rape, Religious bigotry, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Child abuse, Homophobia, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, and Abortion

mona_ambt's review

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

DNF at p238 (end of chap 16)

I am unfortunately unable to finish Young Mungo because it's too emotionally challenging and I'm so not in the right state of mind for it, but i do want to know the ending. (Probably means I'll never come around to reading A Little Life either, which is sad)
I went into it not really knowing what it's about and maybe, just maybe I should've thought of checking the trigger warnings. 

With all that said, this book follows the story of Mungo in Glasgow. He meets James with whom he falls in love, or feels an illicit attraction for. He is sent away to a fishing week-end with 2 men from the AA, after being found out by his mother. 
The story is cut into two times intermingling: Mungo and James's meeting and the week-end away.
I quickly enough got attached to the characters and their (ever-present) struggles and I could have cried too many times to be counted. 

If you want to be sad and revolted against the whole world, read Young Mungo.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Alcoholism, Rape, Miscarriage, Sexual violence, Drug abuse, Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, and Abortion

laurahartfield's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Child abuse, Death, Murder, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Racial slurs

Minor: Vomit

ryanem7's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Abortion, Rape, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Suicidal thoughts, and Self harm

smera90's review

dark emotional sad tense 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

The characters are all developed thoroughly and are very complex. There are some chapters that are difficult to read but the story is very engaging and well developed. There are moments of anger, anxiety, tenderness, abandonment and so many more complicated emotions and experiences. Some awful and some beautiful. I recommend but it’s not for the faint of heart 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Abortion, Alcoholism, Violence, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Murder

vidyasargeant's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Miscarriage, Rape, Grief, Abortion, Addiction, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Outing, Domestic abuse, and Death of parent

jessiemcg's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Incredible yet sobering. Lyrical and moving writing. I listened to this book and it was unbelievably captivating - but not necessarily for the right reasons. A story of class, poverty, alcoholism, abuse and other hard topics. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Rape, Pedophilia, Alcohol, Violence, Homophobia, Addiction, Classism, and Misogyny