Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart

195 reviews

ellagrady's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Murder, and Outing

parboiledlentils's review against another edition

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, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Rape, and Blood

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

emilybr's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

Heart wrenching, the characters are wonderfully complex and the book managed to tell such an intricate story in under 400 pages. It is not a joyful story, the events Mungo and those around him go through are horrific but so incredibly believable, once i started reading i couldn’t stop. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Racism, Sexual content, Violence, and Religious bigotry

raccoonroost's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

for how much mungo went through, not giving him an actual happy ending and only making it open ended is pissing me off... i cant give it a 5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Death, Rape, and Violence

ellymc's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Abortion, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

eelitorr's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-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? Yes

4.75

Excellent story. Beautiful prose. See content warnings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Murder

sharripaula's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia and Rape

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Abortion

readbetweenthefinelines's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad 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

5.0

sad. sweet. heartbreaking and atmospheric but with a small glimpse of hope at the end for a character who deserves it to get  a better ending.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Abortion, and Murder

katcass's review

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

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Emotional abuse

emmaura's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

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

Struggling to give a rating. This book is incredibly violent and miserable and I didnt enjoy reading most of it, but having finished it I do really the value of having read it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Homophobia, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, and Abandonment

Moderate: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Abortion, and Death of parent

Minor: Drug use and Classism