Reviews tagging 'Miscarriage'

Spare by Prince Harry

227 reviews

laurenabeth's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death of parent, Death, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Gun violence, Pregnancy, Classism, Racism, War, Suicidal thoughts, Racial slurs, Car accident, and Bullying

Minor: Drug use, Stalking, Pandemic/Epidemic, Miscarriage, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

anasf21's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative lighthearted reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Gaslighting, Classism, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Alcohol, Grief, Miscarriage, Racism, and Pregnancy

at806's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Mental illness, Racism, War, Death, Kidnapping, Violence, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Animal death, Car accident, Miscarriage, Drug use, Gaslighting, Grief, and Panic attacks/disorders

elviolet's review against another edition

reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Racism and Miscarriage

hannahcstocks's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

---

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

emilylovesgoodbooks's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs

Minor: Death, Suicide, Miscarriage, Animal death, and Suicidal thoughts

kim_lommaert's review

dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and War

Moderate: Racism and Stalking

Minor: Alcohol, Drug use, Miscarriage, and Suicidal thoughts

allisonobrien's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

3.25

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Racism

cosmun's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

3.5

 I listened to the audiobook and really enjoyed Harry's narration. I had never paid much mind to the monarchy aside from articles and tabloids I've seen. The perspective Harry gave through his memoir made my heart break. I definitely gained a new perspective of the press/media and the British monarchy through his story. 

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Miscarriage, Suicide, Death, and Death of parent

ehmannky's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.25

It's an incredibly readable, interesting and engaging memoir, if maybe a little too in-depth in some areas for my liking (good on his ghost writer for doing so well there). I think that this reveals a lot of the petty and retrograde ways that the monarchy works and it just doesn't make me feel like there's any real possibility it could be made to work in a modern era. I have a lot of thoughts after reading this but they basically boil down to:

1 - Being thrust to the level of fame that he has without someone's consent should be classified as a form of abuse, and good on Harry and Meghan for keeping their kids out of this horrible and toxic environment.
2 - it is amazing he is as normal and, like, socially conscious as he is considering he comes from the least normal and socially progressive environments. Like, he's still incredibly privileged and he's never going to, like, join the revolution, but damn at least he's tried to learn. I liked that he took ownership of the racist things he's done, and I think it shows a level of maturity to not just brush it off and blame how he was raised. I am still feeling real ambivalent about all of the war chapters.
3 - I think Meghan has earned the right to complain to the end of time I truly did not know the extent of the racism and hate spewed at her and I even had watched the documentary before this. Literally gasped in my car when he was reading off the headlines and stories about her. I cannot believe the royal family simply pretended they didn't have the money to help protect them. Like, good on Harry for shouting it from the rooftops. 
4 - It feels like he is so close to realizing that the institution of the monarch and The Firm is like inherently corrupt, but can't quite get himself to admit it (which, I get, it's his family). But his anger is mostly at the press, and he can't quite get himself to damn his family (though I will, they all suck).

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Racial slurs, Sexism, War, Miscarriage, Racism, and Colonisation