Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Spare by Prince Harry

212 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

cicuma's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief and Stalking

Minor: Bullying, Death, Drug use, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Violence, Car accident, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and War

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

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.

lalaby's review against another edition

It wasn’t interesting at all, and was overall a bit too weird, with no flow, and not a lot of sense.

Was overall just not a very good book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual content and Car accident

hmcbog's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Miscarriage, and Death of parent

Minor: Suicide and Suicide attempt

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

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

jasperreads's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Grief, Death of parent, and War

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