Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Spare by Prince Harry

302 reviews

katrinaburch's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

What a book. I've always liked Harry more than William (not sure, maybe because we're both the younger in the family? Not sure exactly) and this book cements that liking. I know he had help writing this book but unlike a lot of ghost written books, I actually believe he wrote a lot of it. It's well written, easy to read, and at least for me, you really do feel what he's going through. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and War

Minor: Drug use, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Car accident, and Pregnancy

abernathy_33's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death of parent, and War

Moderate: Miscarriage, Racism, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Drug use, Suicide, and Pregnancy

jacdyson's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective tense fast-paced

3.5

I genuinely enjoyed reading this. Yes, at times it felt like a cry for pity heard from the literal palace, but privilege in one aspect of life does not ensure privilege in all aspects of life. Imagine being chased at all times by the very people who's pursuit killed your mother. I found his childhood stories interesting and enjoyable. The stories of travel, hiking, war, were all wonderful. I'm really glad he spoke his truth when it came to what happened with the Media and Meghan, howvwr unfortunately due to the nature of the content, the book because very heavy at that point, and I'm not quite sure the ending left me feeling resolved, but I guess that's the point. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Car accident, and War

sadiebugreads's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

Provides an insight to the inner workings of the british monarch and their family dynamics. 

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Content Warnings

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.

kaiouelios's review against another edition

emotional informative medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage and Death of parent

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

Minor: Gaslighting

thena444's review against another edition

emotional informative medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Racism, Suicidal thoughts, and Car accident

pingwoh's review against another edition

challenging funny reflective slow-paced

3.5

"he had frost bite on his dick at his brothers wedding" and other stories of oversharing by prince harry

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Content Warnings

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

r_zoner's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, and Death of parent

liesthemoontells's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

As someone with a morbid curiosity about the royal family, I don't know why I didn't listen to Prince Harry's audiobook earlier. It is filled with information that confirms my existing belief that the British Royal Family is the most privileged institution of human rights abuse in the world.

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.

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Content Warnings

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

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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