Reviews tagging 'Death'

Spare by Prince Harry

155 reviews

gracemwigley's review

emotional reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Gun violence, and Death

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Drug use

bookcasey's review against another edition

emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Toxic relationship, Racism, War, and Death of parent

Moderate: Car accident, Death, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Drug use

Minor: Miscarriage

aimshedgecox's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Miscarriage, Racism, and Suicidal thoughts

livruther's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense

4.0

why did he sing????? also the chapters were TOO short. i love a good short chapter, but no 400 page book should have over 200 chapters total???? wayy unnecessary

the phrase “fur baby” = ICK
while harry is self aware in some areas, he could be more self aware. 
some parts of it did feel a little too “woe is me” although i do really respect harry and everything he’s been through
the parts about africa did kinda rub me the wrong way

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, Death of parent, and Gun violence

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Animal death

Minor: Excrement

miggyfool's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Miscarriage, Sexism, Stalking, Addiction, Animal death, Antisemitism, Bullying, Classism, Car accident, Colonisation, Death, Drug use, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Suicide, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Hate crime, Islamophobia, Murder, Pregnancy, Racism, Toxic friendship, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Toxic relationship, Violence, War, and Xenophobia

malloryrae's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.75

Started out slow and I wasn't really feeling the first section and felt like it wasn't in his voice but I’m glad I kept reading and ended up liking it more than I was expecting to. A lot of hard topics and deep reflection by Harry throughout parts 2&3 of the book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, War, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, and Death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Colonisation and Drug use

cheypreston's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Stalking, Bullying, Grief, and War

Moderate: Racism, Toxic relationship, Classism, Miscarriage, Car accident, Sexism, Panic attacks/disorders, Gaslighting, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Drug use

sophusface's review

emotional reflective fast-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Death of parent

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, and War

amelianotthepilot's review against another edition

emotional informative sad slow-paced

1.0

Truly every chapter is wilder than the last and it's all read by him. I do not fathom how these stories made it past editors but also past his wife. Most of the memoir is a jarring juxtaposition of a deeply mentally unwell child who craves empathy from his family while being delusional about his mother's death contrasted with him talking about his "todger". I really don't know why he talks about it so much but so far it has made an appearance at least 7 times in the first 03:30 hours. Certainly an iconic read.

The audiobook is also unnecessarily 15.5 hours long but honestly all due to the fact that this man reads at a snails pace with a breath in between every other word. 

It’s a psychiatrists playground with not only generational trauma but also family trauma but also war PTSD but also stalker trauma but also maternal death trauma topped off with royal trauma. Truly a wild time. I’m sorry to this man.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Violence, War, Cultural appropriation, Abandonment, Car accident, Death of parent, Chronic illness, Drug use, Grief, Kidnapping, Bullying, Death, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

gen_wolfhailstorm's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.5

Listened via Audible

The Details:
Narrated by Prince Harry
Unabridged

This was surprisingly interesting! 

I was initially roped in by the strange snippet about his nether regions but I found quite a lot of interesting stories in here.

One of the bigger controversies I was intrigued to hear about was his thoughts behind dressing up as a Nazi and the other brainless things he did as a youth, to get him dubbed as "Prince Harry, the Thicko", but I was most invested when he was talking about how he met Megan and the relationships and difficulties that grew there.

Hearing about his struggles with how he handled emotion after the death of his mum was quite heartbreaking to hear. Being in a similar situation I couldn't help but empathise.

There were a lot of instances were he sounded so far removed from reality and woe is me, but for the most part this was absorbing.

Overall, a fascinating insight into the Prince's tell-all.

Pick it up, give it a go and enjoy! >(^_^)<

Gén

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Hate crime, Addiction, Alcohol, Car accident, Drug abuse, Grief, Child death, Death of parent, Bullying, Racial slurs, Racism, War, Drug use, and Violence