Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart

4 reviews

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

alisonannk's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Death, Death of parent, Homophobia, Murder, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Abortion, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Classism, Cursing, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Hate crime, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Outing, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Violence, Vomit, Excrement, and Torture

Moderate: Gore, Body shaming, Cancer, Chronic illness, Confinement, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Hate crime, and Terminal illness

Minor: Fatphobia

thegayrobotsfromstarwars's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Violence, Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Outing, Rape, Alcoholism, and Homophobia

Moderate: Abortion, Vomit, Body shaming, Confinement, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, and Excrement

mybookcorner's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

2.5

My expectations were quite high and I was left pretty disappointed with this one. Two intense plot lines mixed with a very predictable storyline of a main character made this quite a sludge for me to get through. It wasn’t breathtaking and wasn’t very riveting. Stuart writes his characters with charm and it’s easy to get attached to them, but it would’ve been easier to not have two storylines mixed in together. It made the pace struggle. I wanted to know more about James and Mungo. But in my opinion, this was such a minimal portion of the novel. And I was disappointed. 

After hearing such rave reviews about Shuggie Bain I was looking forward to this being my first Stuart (this proof was gifted my way), but I was honestly so bored. I’m sure those who loved Shuggie might love this. I wish I could be more eloquent but I just didn’t enjoy this as much as I’d hoped. 

Thank you Picador for sending this my way for an honest review.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Violence, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Religious bigotry, Misogyny, Homophobia, Gun violence, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Death of parent, Classism, Body shaming, Alcoholism, Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Abandonment