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Spare by Prince Harry

235 reviews

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

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.

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

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

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

katie0528's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.75

A tragic memoir as Harry reflects on growing up in the toxic enviorment of the royal family and the invasive paparazzi that led to his mother's death and consumed his own life leaving to his split with the royals. Harry speaks with a deeply reflective voice of someone who has clearly spent years in therapy trying to unpack the toxic world he was raised in. He owns his mistakes and offers a deep empathy to his own family, even as he laments the state of disconnection. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Racism, Stalking, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug use, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Classism

emilycheslock's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

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

qp_reads's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

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