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Spare by Prince Harry

30 reviews

hannahcstocks's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Abandonment, Xenophobia, Violence, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, Classism, Alcohol, Pregnancy, Cultural appropriation, Child abuse, Bullying, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Death of parent, Death, Racism, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Gaslighting, Colonisation, War, Murder, and Miscarriage

choufrise's review

emotional informative medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Death of parent, Grief, and Drug abuse

Minor: Car accident, Suicide attempt, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Colonisation, Racism, and Suicidal thoughts

ash_bees's review

informative slow-paced

3.0

Living life under a microscope has it's consequences.  A young prince loses his mother at a tender age and is haunted--literally and figuratively--by the cause of her death.

Other reviewers commented that this reads as if written by multiple authors, I'd suggest at least three.  The writing could have benefitted from a really heavy editor, and would have been more effective if it was cut down to half or a third.  But that seems to be par for the course for books I've read from people with celebrity status.

The takeaways from this are two-fold:  (1) the importance of speaking up to right wrongs, especially when you're an ally and not the target; and (2) knowing that speaking up may not change the offender's future actions but can gain you more allies or let other similarly situated people know they're not alone.

Lots of trigger warnings for this book.  I wouldn't necessarily say it's spilling the tea, but it does cover lots of death, feelings of abandonment and betrayal, and stalking.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Abandonment, Alcohol, Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Death, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Animal death, Bullying, Car accident, Classism, Racial slurs, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Miscarriage

optimisticcautiously's review

challenging sad tense slow-paced

1.0

This book made me hate Harry. He describes hurting people in such callous terms (not just his bragging about killing Taliban - and, no matter what he claims, he was bragging- but also incidents like the fireworks in the hole, THAT NO ONE SEEMS TO TALK ABOUT).

Also, his descriptions of his “service” are such a joke. He has no clue what it is like to serve. He missed the entire point of hostile environment training. He describes the favouritism he received without realizing that’s what he is describing.

Plus his lack of insight that the criticism reported is based on his behaviour. Plus his freaking Oedipal Complex. Plus his todger stories. And…

He thinks no one was protecting him, but this book shows the Palace was protecting him from being revealed to the public for the ass he is. Don’t believe me? Read it in his own words.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Death of parent, Alcohol, Mental illness, and Sexual assault

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Antisemitism, and Misogyny

Lack of compassion/empathy (bordering on sociopathic behaviour). Possible narcissistic abuse.

ladynavalon's review

slow-paced

1.0

This book should have being a (bunch of) therepy sesión(s). The more these characters (M&H) expose themselves, the less cresibility they gain. Because, when you have such a public live, what's the point of liying over and over? 
Dear reader, don't lose your time on this!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Classism, Alcoholism, Alcohol, War, Panic attacks/disorders, Addiction, Grief, Gaslighting, Drug abuse, Drug use, Domestic abuse, Bullying, Toxic relationship, and Emotional abuse

deidrelj's review

adventurous emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

I didn’t love the super short chapters. It made the storytelling very choppy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Drug abuse and Drug use

Minor: Miscarriage and Suicide attempt

yarnarh's review

reflective medium-paced

0.5

Privilege White boy born as a prince complaining about his life and being way to invested in going to war and killing people.

Felt sad for him that paparazzi were harassing him but my god is he delusional and out of touch.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Alcoholism, Car accident, Child abuse, Death, Gun violence, Murder, War, Addiction, Alcohol, Death of parent, and Drug abuse

genevieve_eggleston's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Miscarriage, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Suicidal thoughts, War, Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Grief, Vomit, Death, Drug abuse, Alcohol, Blood, Cursing, Gore, Alcoholism, and Animal death

Moderate: Sexual content, Infidelity, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Classism, Racism, Sexism, and Gun violence

Minor: Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Infertility, Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, and Homophobia

becky_hubbard's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Grief, Alcohol, Death of parent, and Drug abuse

There's a couple chapters where he refers to his genitals, but mostly in a medical sense. Lots of drug and alcohol use/abuse, lots of profanity.

bookcasey's review against another edition

emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Toxic relationship, Racism, War, and Death of parent

Moderate: Car accident, Death, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Drug use

Minor: Miscarriage