Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart

67 reviews

parboiledlentils's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Rape, Physical abuse, Homophobia, and Blood

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Abortion, and Adult/minor relationship

katcass's review against another edition

dark emotional funny sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cursing, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Animal death, Bullying, Death, Domestic abuse, Animal cruelty, Murder, Outing, Pedophilia, Rape, Violence, Child abuse, Addiction, Blood, and Abortion

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Emotional abuse

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

Moderate: Police brutality, Animal cruelty, and Blood

Minor: Abortion

suzzzzy's review

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

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Murder, and Xenophobia

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

clari's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

carolynedc's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Animal death, Death, Homophobia, Animal cruelty, Rape, and Sexual assault

greatexpectations77's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective 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? Yes

4.5

This is definitely one of those books where you leave it feeling really sad and upset and worried about the characters. And it feels weird to say that you liked it because there is some real bad shit going on in this book. I wonder how the experience would have been different if I would have read this book, and not had the great narration and musicality of the accent.  I want to read the other book that Mr. Stuart has written, but I think I need to take a break for a while in case Shuggie Bain is as heart-wrenching a character as Mungo is. This is definitely one that will have more trigger warnings selected than not.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Alcoholism, Bullying, Physical abuse, Outing, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Murder, Addiction, Toxic relationship, Violence, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Alcohol, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Religious bigotry, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Abortion, Blood, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Gaslighting, Drug abuse, Grief, and Murder

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, and Death of parent

Big big trigger warning for

sexual assault and child abuse.

rose_reads_'s review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

3.75

What an interesting listen! It took me quite a while to get into the book and some parts were quite slow but overall it was a really good book. Definitely check the content/trigger warnings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Abandonment, Violence, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Vomit, Sexual violence, Animal death, Torture, Classism, Bullying, Homophobia, and Animal cruelty

tarsier's review

challenging 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual violence, Rape, Blood, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Addiction, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, and Abortion

Minor: Death of parent, Drug abuse, Racial slurs, Drug use, Animal cruelty, and Animal death