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sadiebugreads's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Racism, and Grief
Moderate: Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Blood, Medical content, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
Minor: Gun violence, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Car accident, and Pandemic/Epidemic
All information is presented in a factual way, a “this is how it happened” way. It is not intended to shock, but to educate.pingwoh's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and War
Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Antisemitism, Grief, Gaslighting, Colonisation, and Classism
Minor: Racial slurs, Cultural appropriation, and Pandemic/Epidemic
liesthemoontells's review against another edition
4.0
From a purely academic perspective, this memoir is ground breaking and history making for breaking the code of silence around what really goes on behind the closed doors of the royal palaces.
From an entertainment perspective, it has everything you could hope for in a celebrity memoir: packed with scandalous anecdotes about a world the ordinary reader will never experience, which helps to humanise a figure that we rarely see other than through the telephoto lens of a tabloid, or glossy official media coverage.
Is it extremely one-sided? Yes. Are the parts about Harry's wartime experiences in Afghanistan a little bit boring and morally icky? Yes. Is his stated support of the monarchy pretty flimsy considering that the recollections he includes in this book of his King and the Heir to the throne paints them as insecure, conniving, snivelly little overgrown rich boys? Yes. Did I struggle to put it down? Yes, I was riveted.
Graphic: Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, Dysphoria, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
torturedreadersdept's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Medical content, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Dysphoria, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Gun violence, Hate crime, Pedophilia, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Antisemitism, Kidnapping, Colonisation, and Pandemic/Epidemic
qp_reads's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Bullying, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Death of parent, and Abandonment
Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Drug use, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and War
abi_lowe's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Racism, Car accident, and Death of parent
Moderate: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Violence, Stalking, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and War
Minor: Medical content
jewelleryjen's review against another edition
3.25
This book was very interesting, it smacks of privilege (having a bad time?!- fly to Botswana and escape) but of course it does, the guy was a Prince and doesn't know anything else. There are parts where I can see he's trying to say he's normal, but it made me cringe as it seemed very inauthentic (I shop in TK maxx and dry my laundry on the radiators round my flat). If you can give him the benefit of the doubt on those things this book is hugely telling. It's mostly about death, the press and his search for belonging. The entire family are utterly dysfunctional and he doesn't shy away from talking about it. They are expected to do what they're told, or what is tradition, and never show emotions, not even to each other.
This is an enjoyable book to read, the chapters are short and easy.
I missed out on some of it as I didn't know who he was talking about when referencing cousins etc and there were stories from papers that I'd never read or heard of, but it didn't stop me enjoying it.
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Stalking, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Colonisation, and War
jeanettesreadingcorner's review against another edition
Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic
leneliest's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Bullying, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, and War
Moderate: Drug use, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence
Minor: Racial slurs
blissofalife's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Bullying, Death, Drug use, Miscarriage, Racial slurs, Racism, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and War
Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Pregnancy