emilylovesgoodbooks's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Racial slurs
Minor: Death, Suicide, Miscarriage, Animal death, and Suicidal thoughts
dogoodwithbooks's review against another edition
5.0
While this book deals with a lot of heavy topics, Prince Harry is brilliantly able to tell his side of the story for the first time ever.
Over the course of 15 hours and 40 minutes, Prince Harry’s memoir felt more like a long podcast than a book, which I thought was interesting. Don’t be put off by the total duration as the chapters are very short and you can breeze through them very quickly if you want to.
After hearing Prince Harry’s point of view, I think that the reasons behind things he did made a bit more sense. I’m not going to lie because I wasn’t a huge royal family observer prior to Spare, but I do think that this book brought more insight on who the royal family might actually be. Add that to the poignant and illustrative writing style going over Prince Harry’s life story, this is a book worth investing in and especially through an audiobook.
Graphic: War, Grief, Mental illness, and Death of parent
Moderate: Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, and Suicide
Minor: Animal death
puglover's review
4.25
Graphic: Misogyny, Grief, Death, Death of parent, Racism, and Sexism
Moderate: Miscarriage, War, Islamophobia, Xenophobia, and Racial slurs
Minor: Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, and Infidelity
ashstrausser's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Animal death
Moderate: Death of parent, Death, and War
teaandpetrichor's review against another edition
2.75
Graphic: Animal death and Animal cruelty
Moderate: Murder
samantha_diluca_duckworth's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death
Moderate: War
ash_bees's review
3.0
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.
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
staceyinthesticks's review against another edition
3.0
Moderate: Death of parent and Grief
Minor: Alcohol, Animal death, Car accident, Cursing, Drug use, Pregnancy, Death, Racism, War, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts
mollie1h's review
4.0
Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Miscarriage, Racism, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Racial slurs, Pregnancy, Mental illness, Animal death, Death of parent, Animal cruelty, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Death
theabee's review
4.5
Moderate: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Classism, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Stalking, Violence, War, Addiction, and Animal death