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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
emilycheslock's review against another edition
3.25
Graphic: Drug use, Misogyny, Car accident, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Classism
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexism, Suicide, Colonisation, and War
Minor: Addiction, Blood, and Abandonment
rhiannonhoward's review against another edition
3.25
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, and Classism
mcarabooboo's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic
beaubaggins's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Abandonment, War, and Classism
Moderate: Addiction, Death, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racism, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic
sarah_hutchins's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Grief
Moderate: Death, Islamophobia, Stalking, Car accident, and War
Minor: Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Colonisation
ehmannky's review against another edition
4.25
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).
Moderate: Bullying, Miscarriage, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Colonisation, and War
puglover's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Grief, and Death of parent
Moderate: Miscarriage, Racial slurs, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, and War
Minor: Animal death, Infidelity, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders