Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart

228 reviews

emfrank's review

dark emotional sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Sexual violence, Violence, Murder, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Alcoholism, Sexual assault, Rape, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Abortion

sandro_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

5.0

A heart-wrenching look at growing up gay and in poverty set in 1990s Glasgow. Beautifully written, it is the type of book that leaves an imprint on your soul. I still find myself wondering where Mungo would be today. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Child abuse, and Murder

6loodbank's review

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

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

twin_empires's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Murder, Homophobia, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Misogyny, Violence, Addiction, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, and Animal death

bintou's review

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Abortion, Murder, Rape, Violence, Sexual assault, Alcoholism, and Addiction

kay_rosey29's review

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

4.0

This book is basically misery porn. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Pedophilia, Alcoholism, Rape, and Murder

xaviergasper's review

dark reflective 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

4.0

I spent so much of this book with my opinions of the Hamilton's flip-flopping between hatred and love.

They redeemed themselves in the end though, and I was glad to see them stick with Mungo.

Stuart is a masterful writer, I love how he chooses to relay information to the reader and I would love to read more from him.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Homophobia, Murder, Pedophilia, Alcohol, and Rape