Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Spare by Prince Harry

111 reviews

emquartz15's review against another edition

informative reflective tense fast-paced

3.0

I’m not sure why I expected this to be more radical than it was. WAY too many hunting scenes for my taste. It started to get really good about 70% in, when Harry talks about meeting Meghan. That’s the reason why I picked up the book to begin with, because I was interested in their story as royals who stood their ground and left. Prince Harry explores the way the paparazzi/media seriously affect their mental and physical safety, from the beginning of his life with his mom, to his wife and family now.

The writing is beautifully poetic at times throughout the book, but at the end of the day, it’s still written by a prince and a soldier whose deeply embedded views about war/the crown are complicated but maybe not complicated enough. It was just way too long of an audiobook for me to only be genuinely engaged for the last fourth. However, I’m so captured by Harry and Meghan’s story, and I really hope they’re doing well. It seemed like one of the reasons why I so enjoyed listening to the portion of the book about them was how Prince Harry’s writing was clearly ignited with a passion and poeticism when it came to her. I just love that. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Death of parent

mamasuereads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

I enjoyed listening along as well as reading the physical book on this one.  As a child growing up, he was awarded so many incredible experiences being a royal, even with being the spare.  But then, at such a young age to lose his adored mother, it seems that life was halted.  After his mother's death, it seems he was haunted and hunted all while experiencing his teen years . . that isn't easy for any child let alone a young man in that cold, impersonal royal "family" unit.  I use quotations because that family is his blood but that's about it. I could not imagine no hugs, no kisses, what a very cold-hearted bunch. Now he can be whoever he is meant to be and raise his children with love and affection. I'm certain his mother is smiling down upon his family unit.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

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

pamnc's review against another edition

adventurous informative reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Death of parent

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Miscarriage

kerrbearlib's review against another edition

fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

emadisonc's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

“Whatever the cause, my memory is my memory, it does what it does, gathers and curates as it sees fit, and there’s just as much truth in what I remember and how I remember it as there is in so-called objective facts. Things like chronology and cause-and-effect are often just fables we tell ourselves about the past. The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Drug use, Miscarriage, Racism, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death

kimrahn's review against another edition

3.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death

siankrb's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

An honest, funny and moving account of Prince Harry’s life and the challenges that come with being the spare. I thought the book particularly picked up in the third section, talking about Meghan and recent events. Took me a while to get through but I ended up being very moved. Appreciated having an insight into a life completely different from my own. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Gore, Hate crime, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Antisemitism, Medical content, Car accident, Abortion, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

Minor: Addiction, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Colonisation, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

mcarabooboo's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

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

dev921's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic